The Vices and Virtues of a Multi-currency Economy
By Rejoice Ngwenya , Harare, Zimbabwe
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Adopting the use of ‘foreign’ currency as legal tender in one’s country has very little impact on a country’s failed state status. Since the dollarisation of Zimbabwe's currency, corporate budgets are more predictable. However, public utilities still struggle with uneconomic tariffs while the large, obese coalition government that works on a cash budget gobbles the little revenue there is.
IPPA Report Frames African Case for Palm Oil, Urges Renewed World Bank Focus on Poverty Reduction
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Social and Environmental Criteria Would Damage Palm Oil
Development August 23, 2010 (Lagos, Nigeria): In response to the World Bank Group Palm Oil stakeholder consultation, the Nigeria-based think-tank, Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA), has outlined the indispensable role that palm oil production plays in achieving economic growth and opportunity for African nations such as Nigeria and Ghana - particularly for the rural poor - in a report released today. (Please see report here)
What is the Best Way to Help the World's Deserving Poor?
The Sunday Telegraph (UK) August 22, 2010
IMANI- sponsored letter in the The Sunday Telegraph (UK) August 22, 2010
As Africans, we urge the generous-spirited British to reconsider an aid programme they can ill afford, and which we do not want or need. A real offer from the British people to help our development would consist of the abolition of the Common Agricultural Policy, which keeps African agricultural exports out of the European marketplace.
Read the letter here.
Politics and Religion: Rev. Asante-Antwi Raises the Bar
Monday, August 23, 2010
By Edward Kutsoati
We all know that our religious bodies, the state and traditional institutions (i.e., the government, chiefs/fetish priests) are not only the most powerful institutions in the society, but there also seem to be a tacit collusion among them to maintain their (social and economic) status.
Support Zimbabwe's road to freedom: Send your comments on her constitutional discourse now!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Support Zimbabwe's road to freedom: Send your comments on her constitutional discourse now!
What do AIDS Activists Want More Money For?
Thursday, August 05, 2010
By Roger England
With drugs now less than US$100 per person per year, treating the five million people now on therapy should cost US$500 million, say US$1 billion including logistics and support. Yet the world spends US$16 billion annually on HIV. Where’s it going?
Wrong Tax, Wrong Disease
Thursday, August 05, 2010
By Eamonn Butler
Officials and activists at the recent world AIDS conference in Vienna want a "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions to fund HIV/AIDS relief. This well-published analyst explains why this is a bad and counter-productive idea.
