Innovation • 30 Apr 2024 How SML confused Ghanaian professors Despite sparring for months with SML, I had never had the privilege of an encounter at close range. Unlike the good souls at the Fourth Estate, whose collaboration with ACEP was backed by IMANI, and who had the opportunity to visit SML a number of times, and in true journalistic... read more
Social Policy • 28 Apr 2024 How a UN Farmer-Support Program exposed some to fraud IFAD, GASIP, and Ghana In April 2014, the government of Ghana borrowed $46 million from Rome-based IFAD, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, a UN body that, as its name suggests, finds money for countries to fix some of their agricultural challenges. IFAD’s loans often go to support projects targeting... read more
Political Economy • 19 Apr 2024 Is the World Bank saving or harming Ghana? Note: This essay is a more detailed version of a piece written for the Africa Report. As the Spring Meeting and its panoply of side events wind to a close, the recurring theme yet again is “more money” for the world’s poor. A point made with refreshing clarity by the... read more
Political Governance • 2 Apr 2024 The owners of Ghana Card come swinging It was almost sundown today when word came of a valiant attempt to counter our recent essay on how Ghana’s national Identity (ID) Card project has turned out to be a massive ripoff. In between flights, time was made to read through this supposed “valiant effort” at presenting a counter-thesis... read more
