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Thursday, June 11, 2009

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Tsvangirai Reads the Zimbabwe Papers

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, reading the Zimbabwe Papers
Yesterday, in Washington, D. C., AfricanLiberty.org and  IMANISenior 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

Barack Obama(L) George Bush(R)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”.

Rejoinder: The Impact of Illicit Trade & Counterfeit Drugs

Monday, June 08, 2009

By Bright B. Simons & Franklin Cudjoe

Charles CofieMr. Cofie's excellent  article had focused as much on national development as on consumer protection, and in such a comprehensive manner that this rejoinder would have been redundant were it not for a few, rather important, omissions, which leaves his analysis incomplete and his description therefore of the current counterfeiting/anti-counterfeiting situation in Ghana somewhat incomplete too.

Unchaining Ghana’s Melodies

By Mark Schultz, Alec van Gelder and Franklin Cudjoe

Saturday, June 06, 2009

Mark Schultz (L), Franklin Cudjoe(M), Alec van Gelder(R) 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.