Systems Thinking • 10 Dec 2021 All Problems are Connected, So Must the Solutions Yesterday, Brookings launched a book, aptly named Breakthrough, coauthored by 15 people active in the worlds of technology, innovation, investment and development. The book is a truly majestic sweep of what technology innovation can do to get us over the SDGs bar by 2030, or simply put: make this planet... read more
Technology Policy • 6 Dec 2021 Digital Taxes in Africa Flop but Ghana wants in This is a short postscript to my earlier note on Ghana’s proposed e-Levy. In view of certain reactions to that piece, I felt that a quick span of the experiences of other countries that have gone this route, which I had suggested offhandedly in my note, would actually illuminate some... read more
Political Governance • 5 Dec 2021 The Minority Leader Should Please Hold His Horses on e-Levy The Leader of the Opposition (“Minority Leader”) in Ghana’s “hung” Parliament, who has been a perfect picture of parliamentary due diligence so far in the matter of the stranded 2022 government budget, startled the public by announcing prematurely that he will accept a 1% e-levy rate. The government has proposed... read more
