Vision 2021: The Future of Ghana as Promised by NDC’s Manifesto [14/09/2016]

President Mahama presented the highlights of the NDC’s manifesto in the evening of 13th September 2016 in Accra. By ‘highlights’ he obviously meant the most important, most high-impact, and most representative aspects of the 100-plus page manifesto document he shall be unveiling on 17th September 2016. IMANI can thus use this speech alone to analyse […]
Agyapa Matters Arising Series – Franklin’s 10 Simple Comments & Questions About Agyapa

Agyapa Matters Arising Series ____________ Franklin’s 10 Simple Comments & Questions About Agyapa If you think that the CSO front is going to leave this Agyapa business to just a few people and IMANI, then brace yourself. This week, a whole lot of new voices are going to be heard, serious voices. Tons of expertise […]
IMANI Centre For Policy and Education – Expert Profiles

Dr. Theophilus Acheampong Nationality: Ghanaian Education: PhD Economics, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom; MSc Petroleum, Energy Economics and Finance (with distinction), University of Aberdeen, UK; BSc Chemical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana Country experience: Ghana, Guyana, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands and the United Kingdom, Equatorial Guinea, Lebanon, Israel and Cyprus, […]
IMANI Alert: Government Should Also Account for COVID-19 Savings in Today’s Budget

Today, the Finance Minister will appear in Parliament to seek authorisation for his spending plans for the rest of the year. While there is no gainsaying the fact of COVID’s adverse effects on the country’s fortunes, IMANI has become worried about the continued absence in the economic discussion of the equally real fact of SAVINGS being made due […]
[Open Letter] Ineffective / Non-availability of Anti-Snake Venom Serum Causing Loss of Lives in Ghana

While Covid-19 has struck the World and our societies, we should also not neglect other major pressing health issues especially here in Ghana. As you may have followed our recent open letters to the Ministry of Health (MoH) as well as the various publications from our local media outlets on the topic of infective / […]
IMANI Q&A: How to Discredit an Election

If someone had assembled the world’s smartest people and given them the task to design the surest way to discredit the outcome of an impending election and stain the reputation of one of Africa’s most respected democracies, they wouldn’t have come up with anything more effective than what Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) is now doing. […]
Press Statement: To tackle Covid-19, keep trade free and support innovation, says international think tank coalition to governments.

To tackle Covid-19, keep trade free and support innovation, says international think tank coalition to governments. As member states of the World Health Organization gather today, May 17, 2020 in Geneva for the World Health Assembly, a global coalition of 31 think tanks today calls on governments to commit to open trade, collaboration and […]
A Joint Declaration on the Importance of Collaboration, Open Trade, and Innovation in Tackling COVID-19

Introduction We are an international coalition of public policy research institutes and think tanks that believes that the solutions to the COVID-19 crisis will come from collaboration, open trade and innovation. We are concerned that many countries are looking to the failed protectionism of the past to address the crisis. Barriers are being erected that […]
10 suggested measures to help contain Corona Virus- Ato Coleman.

? suggested measures to help contain Corona Virus ? – Ato Coleman. 1. Curfew from 8pm to 6am to limit reckless behavior at night. 2. Reduce exempted groups-reduce the number of exempted groups such as fisherfolk, construction workers etc 3. Impose nationwide stay at home. 4.Shut down densely population markets. 5. Do massive food distribution […]
Ghana’s Covid-19 Fight: “Data Alignment” is the Magic Word – Bright Simons

The Government of Ghana has announced a three-prong strategy for comprehensively responding to the Covid-19 crisis: Testing, Tracing & Treatment. Of those three dimensions, many observers feel that the first two are the most critical in the current phase of the crisis as they are more visible and more closely linked with prevention, which given the […]