It would benefit the continent immensely if African countries open up their economies for investors, as it will speed up the success of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, European Union Ambassador to Ghana, Diana Acconcia, has said, adding that such a move won’t undermine the rules...
Imagine you wanted your child, Kofi, to take a swim class. You hire the best tutor you can find, Teacher Ama. She then proceeds to teach Kofi every single muscle movement necessary to make him an expert swimmer. Kofi learns breathing techniques, body positioning, arm-and-leg coordination, and he memorises...
The new U.S. administration must double down on – not shy away from – engagements with African energy opportunities by facilitating U.S. private sector investment in natural gas and renewables and eschewing a return to aid-driven diplomacy
On Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden was sworn into office, ushering in a...
A World Bank report has re-emphasised the importance of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement in becoming a game changer on the continent, especially, as African countries seek to bounce back from the devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the World Bank, economic growth in the...
… to commemorate 2021 International Year on Creative Economy for Sustainable Dev’t
UNEP Goodwill Ambassador for the Creative Economy, Roberta Annan, will be speaking at the UNCTAD Trade Police Dialogue under the auspices of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
The event is scheduled to take place...
Africa is not poor, yet Africa has piqued the interests of economists for the last half century and there is a good number of academic literature on why Africa is poor. This is because for the resources available to Africa, both natural and human capital potential, the continent has...
It wasn’t US President Donald Trump’s intention, but he did his successor Joe Biden a potentially historic favor through his incitement of the violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, for which the House impeached him for an unprecedented second time this week.
No right-minded individual would wish...
It will be erroneous to think that the official commencement of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) on January 1, 2021, has been rushed since it is not an event but a process, Wamkele Mene, the AfCFTA’s Secretary General, has said.
Responding to critics who opine that the agreement’s...
The 2020 Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE) has once again ranked Uganda (39.6%), Botswana (38.5%) and Ghana (36.5%) as the world’s three leading economies having the most women business owners. The Index’s benchmark indicator is calculated as a percentage of total businesses owners, and all three countries have...
When President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated next week, he will quickly move to transform most dimensions of US policy. A glaring exception is China. But if Biden maintains outgoing President Donald Trump’s confrontational approach to the world’s second-largest economy, he will come to regret it.
While Biden may be less...
