What Our Oil Cannot Do For Us And What We Must Not Allow It To Do
Monday, March 15, 2010
The way expectations are managed can make Ghana’s Oil a blessing, a curse or a hoax. It depends on leadership and how people are prepared, if leadership does not manage the expectation right, people will be extremely optimistic about how Oil can change their well being. Read more here.
IMANI Board Congratulates Franklin Cudjoe on his Selection as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
Thursday, March 04, 2009
Issued in Accra : IMANI Board Statement: Franklin Cudjoe Declared Young Global Leader
On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the Fellows of IMANI Center for Policy & Education, I wish to congratulate the Executive Director of imani, Mr. Franklin Cudjoe, on his selection, from a pool of over 5000 candidate leaders around the world, to join one of the most prestigious communities – the Young Global Leaders – of the influential World Economic Forum.
IMANI & AfricanLiberty.org editor named Young Global Leader
Thursday, March 04, 2009
Two Ghanaians, Elikem Kuenyehia Managing Partner Oxford & Beaumont Solicitors and Frankin Cudjoe Director, IMANI Center for Policy and Education have been named 2010 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum. See the full list of Honourees at page 5 of this link
Report Emphasizes Connection between Property rights and Economic Well-being
2010 International Property Rights Index ranks 125 nations, 97 percent of world’s GDP
Accra – IMANI is proud to announce the release of the 2010 International Property Rights Index (IRPI), which measures the intellectual and physical property rights of 125 nations from around the world. This year, sixty-two international organizations, including IMANI partnered with the Property Rights Alliance in Washington, DC and its Hernando de Soto Fellowship program to produce the fourth annual IPRI.
IMANI Alert: Watch These Oil Numbers!
Monday, February 22, 2010
Finally! We have something to applaud the Ministry of Energy for! Those who have been following our releases should by now be familiar with our incessant ranting about “transparency”.
Technology is the Solution to Illiteracy
Thursday, February 11, 2009
Mr. Kofi Bentil of IMANI Ghana has stated that the solution to illiteracy in Ghana is the introduction of technology into all spheres of the Ghanaian life.
He made this statement at a conference organised by the Danquah Institute on biometric voter registration and electronic voting in Ghana.
The first day of the two days conference was devoted to interrogating the advantages and challenges of introducing biometric voter registration and the second day devoted to e-voting in Ghana.
He said there has been a constant argument that the illiteracy rates in Ghana are high and the introduction of technology into certain areas of public life, like the introduction of technology into our voting system, will not be feasible.
Road Toll Increases and its Impact on Road Maintenance in Ghana
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
By Charles K. Boakye
One of Ghana's foremost infrastructure analyst has joined the debate over recent increases in road tolls in Ghana. He avers that "Road Funds have emerged as one of the more popular forms of financing road sector maintenance funding gaps in many countries and Ghana has had a fair share of its benefits. However, challenges remained because tolls and fees were unchanged for ten years." He believes we must begin to wean ourselves off the donor apron strings at least wih road maintenance.
Ghana’s National Payment Platform May Become A Colossal Waste of Resources
Monday, February 08, 2010
The tendency of governments to take on complex programs without sufficient risk analysis, and the bureaucratic unease of government-paid managers about dealing with the private sector, can prove, as e-zwich has shown, very costly for all of us by leading to the wanton dissipation of scarce resources.
IMANI Alert: How Affordable is the STX-Ghana Affordable Housing Project?
Monday, February 01, 2010
If comments by the outgoing Minister for Water Resources, Works & Housing are anything to go by the centrepiece of government of Ghana’s affordable housing policy is now the recent STX-Government of Ghana (GoG) public-private partnership (PPP) agreement that should supposedly lead to the building of 200,000 housing units throughout Ghana between April of this year and April 2015.
The Global think tank programme in association with Pennsylvania University and the Foreign Policy Magazine ranked IMANI, the 5th most influential think tank in Africa for 2010. We were ranked 6th last year. See last year’s ranking