ver wondered about the possibility of building a comprehensive and well integrated Rapid Mass Transit System (Metro-System) that is rail based and truly functional in Accra? The Accra Monorail System…
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1. Introduction Only a decade ago, Africa’s socio-economic growth potential was confined to the doldrums and back alley of underdevelopment. Today, the international media continues to be abuzz with common memes such as…
News wires reported today that Ghana was planning a mid-year Eurobond bond to strengthen public finances. I wonder however, how the markets will price this bond on the back of…
This week, international news media reported that France’s Total had struck oil on the CI-100 block off Ivory Coast adjacent to Ghana’s giant Jubilee Field. The block is very close…
So President Obama last night enacted wide-ranging $85 billion spending cuts in a bid to close the deficit. Total public debt in the US was approximately $11.822 trillion or about…
Norway today ranks top in every major human development metric and it didn’t occur by chance. Rather, it had a concerted policy in place to develop a national petroleum industry,…
Rising commodity prices buoyed by an insatiable demand from China et al have pushed African commodity exports to all-time high. Mobile technologies and a rising middle class with extra consumer…
Many African countries benefited from debt relief over the last ten years, but Kenya’s macroeconomic success is home-made. In 2003, Kenya’s debt stood at 60 percent of GDP. Then, through…
Relatively stable and flexible labour markets from post-unification reforms. Stronger bond exists between workers and employers. Germany benefited from the Euro….cheaper currency vis-a-vis weaker export neighbours meant boost for German…