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African Think Tanks Urge G20 Leaders to Break Down Trade Barriers

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

The Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA Nigeria) and IMANI Center for Policy and Education, (IMANI Ghana), have called on leaders of the G20 to prevent short term inward-looking policies and promote integration of developing countries into the global trade regime.

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Russia Urged to Design a Long Term Engagement Strategy With Africa

Tuesday,  March 31, 2009

Vladimir Putin“Russia should adopt a more corporate approach to foreign policy conduct in Africa, open its burgeoning market to African goods by offering trade preferences similar to the United States AGOA,” Bright Simons, a prominent policy researcher at the IMANI Center for Education and Policy, the Templeton Prize winning African think tank which is based in Accra, Ghana, told APA in interview on Saturday.

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Aid Will Cripple Zimbabwe, Again!

Thursday, March 26, 2009 

Rejoice Ngwenya, Harare, Zimbabwe
 
President Robert Mugabe has appealed for international assistance to rebuild his self-battered country.  Many aid activists are already salivating at this rapprochement from Africa’s most beleaguered president. 

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RED FLAG: Investor Anxiety Heightening in Ghana?

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

By Franklin Cudjoe & Bright B. Simons 

Atta MillsAt a forum in Accra on Tuesday, the 24th of March, 2009,  called to discuss the  Global Economic Crisis,  a number of highly informed speakers mentioned a growing perception  that Ghana's investment climate risks are deteriorating.

Why noise over Bashir's Indictment Ignores the Real Mess in Sudan

Monday, March 23, 2009

By Bright B. Simons

Omar BashirOne wonders why President Omar Bashir’s indictment has come at this particular time, a question made more poignant by the recent television antics of former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s lawyer on a Ghanaian late night television programme.

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