Dani Rodrik's thoughts...China as economic bogeyman

Good governance is not measured by the number of policies an institution adopts, but by the confidence it inspires in those it serves.

Ghana’s public discussion about the Ghana Gold Board’s (GoldBod’s) operations has intensified alongside the country’s engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the stated goal of exiting the programme. In recent commentary, members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP),

World Bank data shows that improving judicial efficiency from the 75th to 50th percentile globally boosts annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth by 0.28 percentage points.

The establishment of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) in 2025 under Act 1140 marked a deliberate policy shift.

Traditionally, universities have been seen as centers of knowledge creation, instruction, and preservation. But in a world that is changing quickly, a university's function must extend beyond the classroom, lecture hall, and exam room. 

What if everything you think you know about your customer is wrong?

Ghana's engineers have graded eight sectors of the country's infrastructure, from the roads and power lines to the classrooms and clinics. The overall mark, a D3, is the same as a decade ago.

Ghana sits on an extraordinary, under-monetised endowment: gold, manganese, bauxite, diamonds, industrial minerals, oil and gas, cocoa, timber, cash crops and horticultural produce that together define the structural spine of the national economy.