Richard Nunekpeku's thoughts ... In search of national development models – lessons from the communal labour concept: Lesson one – leadership

- Ghana ranks among the world’s leaders in financial regulation but has paid dearly for failing to ensure its professionals kept pace. The last failure alone cost an estimated GH¢16.4 billion.

A new statutory Authority and a GH¢110 million start-up budget give the government's flagship jobs programme legal teeth. But the gap between institutional architecture and 1.7 million promised jobs remains wide, and history offers little comfort.

 The continent is building sophisticated sustainable finance frameworks.

There is a particular kind of silence that can end a career.