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Music, Money and Growth

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

By Franklin Cudjoe, Mark Schultz and Alec van Gelder

For years, musicians, film-makers and producers have complained bitterly of the failings of the Copyright Society of Ghana, the Nigerian Copyright Commission, the Senegalese Copyright Association and the rest.
But there are small signs of progress. In Ghana, Section 49 of the 2005 Copyright Act theoretically allows publishers and composers to form private royalty-collecting organisations.

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Ghana's Finance Minister’s State of the Economy Address

Monday, June 22, 2009

The Legacy of 2008
The Ghanaian economy at end-2008 was characterised by severe imbalances, reflected in the fiscal deficit which widened from 9% of GDP in 2007 to 14.9% of GDP in 2008. The deficit was largely driven by a lack of prudence in public spending and misplaced priorities.  Really?? 

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Updates from AfricanLiberty.org and IMANI

Thursday, June 11, 2009

For the latest on AfricanLiberty.org and IMANI advocacy on the local and international media front, please visit  link...




Tsvangirai Reads the Zimbabwe Papers

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Yesterday, in Washington,   AfricanLiberty.org and  IMANI  Senior Advisor, Dr. Tom Palmer, met Morgan Tsvangirai, opposition leader and prime minister of Zimbabwe, and gave him a copy of the Zimbabwe Papers, a collection of serious policy suggestions and studies that offer a way for Zimbabwe to rebuild and regain it’s place as a prosperous country once again.We’ve mentioned this report in the past.

This publication was written and established by a group of organizations across, Imani (Ghana), Institute for Public Policy Analysis (Nigeria), Free Market Foundation (South Africa), Centre des Affaires Humaines (Burkina Faso), Institute of African Economics, Zambia Institute for Public Policy Analysis, Comaliso, Law Review Project and  CETD-Nigeria. Learn more  about the campaign, and read the Zimbabwe Papers here.


IMANI Alert: What Can Obama & Ghana do for Each Other?

Monday, June 08, 2009

By Franklin Cudjoe, Bright B. Simons & Kofi Bentil

When President Barack Obama steps foot in Ghana on the 10th of July 2009, he will be walking into one of the very few global contexts where George Bush will be a hard act to follow: “development aid to Africa”.

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Unchaining Ghana’s Melodies

Saturday, June 06, 2009

By Mark Schultz, Alec van Gelder and Franklin Cudjoe

From Highlife to Hiplife, Ghana’s sounds fill dance floors all over the continent. Unfortunately, it takes more to build a music industry than talent and (unenforced) law. Enforcement of the law and a music business with effective private institutions, such as music publishers and industry associations, are required.

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Beyond Mistrust: Tweaking the Doctor-Employer Relationship

Friday, June 05, 2009

By Dr. Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, General Secretary Ghana Medical Association

LocalFollow the intrigues of salary negotiations between Ghana’s governments and the medical fraternity. In Ghana and most African countries “health workers do not have any document that spells out the terms and conditions of their service” We at AfricanLiberty.org and IMANI have long argued, that access to health care cannot be a sanctioned human right when the basic infrastructures and reasonably well-paid doctors and nurses are non-existent. Add absence of good drinking water and good food and the real poverty profiling of diseases stare activists for free access to healthcare and health products in the face.

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Drug-induced Dreams

Sunday, May 24, 2009

By Franklin Cudjoe

UNAIDSLocal production of medicines is not a bad thing in itself: there are many excellent African companies producing high quality medicines. The problems start when politicians intervene by pouring public money into new factories and into propping up businesses which would otherwise go bust. Quality is usually the first victim.

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Counterfeit drugs kill over 700,000 people every year - new report

A new report from the International Policy Network and sponsored by IMANI Center for Policy & Education details the shocking burden of fake drugs in less developed countries. Fake tuberculosis and malaria drugs alone are estimated to kill 700,000 people a year. That’s equivalent to four fully laden jumbo jets crashing every day..

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Zimbabwe can become a Free, Peaceful and Prosperous Country – says new Report

Accra, May 19, 2009– The Zimbabwe Papers, a major report released today by 9 of Africa’s most respected think-tanks, examines the causes of Zimbabwe’s social and economic problems and offers a blueprint for urgent and practical reform that will enable the country to become a thriving, peaceful and prosperous country.

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Ghana: Govt & the Millennium Development Goals
Monday, May 18, 2009

By Franklin Cudjoe, Bright B. Simons & Kofi Bentil

The MDGs are a wonderful set of ideals, stated abstractly and as an exhortation to governments in Ghana and Africa to move beyond rhetoric. But as a guiding light for development strategy formulation (underline "strategy"), they are probably less useful.

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IMANI Alert: Has Ghana Lost 5 Years of her Development, or What?
Thursday, May 14, 2009

A lack of clarity about the nation’s development agenda should necessarily increase the local risk premium for external actors.

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IMANI Alert: This “Swine Flu” Hysteria!
Monday, May 11, 2009

Purveyors of fine pork and sausages are up in arms in many of our towns and cities. But what are our so-called experts doing about it?

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Colonial Policy Cause of Illiteracy and Poverty in North - Ofosu Dorte
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Read Ghana News Agency report here . Also, Ghana's favourite media house, Multi Media through, Joy Fm followed on with IMANI's Ofosu-Dorte's lecture with an hour and half interview today, April 29. Listen to the audio interview here.  Interview begins from window 5.

Ghana Wrestles with Her Bretton Woods Suitors
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

By Kofi Bentil, Bright B. Simons & Franklin Cudjoe

eWhat is clear though is that without a considerable ramping of Government of Ghana's negotiation capacity, country ownership of economic management policy will have to be sacrificed for a bowl of pottage.

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IMANI named Top Go-To Think Tank in Africa and Globally

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

In the January 2009 edition of the influential Foreign Policy magazine, IMANI was named the sixth most influential think tank in Africa. Please review here

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John Templeton Prize for IMANI

IMANI is the only think tank to have been awarded the John Templeton Prize twice in Africa for Advancing Freedom.

This year, IMANI was the sole recipient in Africa of the Antony & Dorian Fisher Award (Out of 180 think-tanks globally) that recognise thinkanks playing a crucial role to ensure that public policy debates are not dominated by government insiders.

A judge on the Templeton Prize awarded to IMANI commented, "I give them [IMANI] the highest points for being most specific and rigorous in applying free-market solutions to an array of complex social problems. Their submission shows the importance of using rigorously derived, quantifiable research outputs to gain credibility in shaping the policy debate. Crisp, clear, compelling data is the most useful tool to provide to any media outlet, and it's easy for the media to use, without interpretation."

 

Atlas Fisher Venture Grant Awarded to IMANI

March 25, 2008 - The Atlas Economic Research Foundation announced fisherthat IMANI Center for Policy and Education (Accra, Ghana) is the only African think tank among its first class of recipients of Dorian & Antony Fisher Venture Grants. More than 180 think tanks competed for the grants in this program, but only nine were selected to receive up to $100,000 from Atlas over the next three years. Franklin Cudjoe, the founding director of IMANI Center for Policy and Education, remarked: "Receiving this grant from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation is another great vindication of the important work IMANI began 3 years ago. We are determined to see that public policy debate in Ghana and West Africa involve students who should be informed by principled, non-partisan viewpoints." Read more


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