What’s Happening At AGI This Week:
Here are some of the highlights across the Atlas Global Initiative websites this week: “The Triangle of the Islamic Religious Polarization in the Gulf” is a can’t miss article on Minbaralhurriyya.org by Nabil Albukayre. Chiraiazadi.org just posted a great article, “Real Democracy and Development”, by Peshwaz Faizulla. OrdemLivre.org‘s Diogo Costa just returned from a trip [...]
Good Ol’ Fashioned Corruption Faces an Adversary in Ghana
Last week the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) in collaboration with IMANI: Centre for Policy and Education held a seminar in Accra, Ghana to educate economists, entrepreneurs and policy makers on the essence of developing and protecting property rights. According to Franklin Cudjoe, Executive Director of IMANI, property rights means possessing “The right to use, control, and [...]
Finding a Seat in the Debate on Aid in Africa
One of the top goals of a free market organization is to gain a seat in the debate on important issues that effect our society, so that the window of possibilities is widened to include our set of freedom loving beliefs. James Shikwati, founder and director of IREN-Kenya, has worked for years to educate the [...]
Atlas Global Initiative Highlights
Tom G. Palmer was just awarded The Legion of Liberty Award! The Legion of Liberty is an award provided by the El Instituto Cultural Ludwig von Mises -ICUMI and the IPEA Instituto de Pensamiento Estratégico Ágora A.C to, “Those extraordinary individuals, promoters of liberty, that have distinguished themselves for contributing to the advancement of this [...]
Countering Fake Drugs In Africa
On June 10, Franklin Cudjoe, editor for AfricanLiberty.org and executive director of IMANI Center for Public Policy & Education (Ghana), spoke to the BBC about the use of cell phones in Africa and new developments in cellular technology that will protect consumers in the developing world from counterfeit drugs. Franklin told the daily BBC radio [...]
Atlas Global Initiative Highlights
Here’s what’s going on around AGI this week: Tom G. Palmer’s new book, Realizing Freedom, hit the shelves this week! Check it out and purchase it here. Our Kurdish site, Chiraiazadi.org, is now on Facebook and Twitter. Follow and friend us! Cheragheazadi.org just released Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman, in Farsi. There’s a must [...]
Tsvangirai Reads the Zimbabwe Papers
Today, Morgan Tsvangirai, opposition leader and prime minister of Zimbabwe, was given a copy of the Zimbabwe Papers, a collection of serious policy suggestions and studies that offer a way for Zimbabwe to rebuild and regain it’s place as a prosperous country once again.We’ve mentioned this report in the past. This publication was written and [...]
Counterfeit Drugs Kill Thousands Annually
A new report from the International Policy Network and sponsored by IMANI Center for Policy & Education details the shocking problem of counterfeit drugs in less developed countries. Fake tuberculosis and malaria drugs alone are estimated to kill 700, 000 people every year. According to the report, nearly half the drugs sold in Ghana, Nigeria, [...]
Think Tank Report Says Zimbabwe Can Thrive Again
Nine African think tanks, concerned about conditions in Zimbabwe are the co-sponsors of the newly released report, Zimbabwe Papers: A Positive Agenda for Zimbabwean Renewal. The Zimbabwe Papers contain proposals for reform that, if implemented, would not only rapidly improve conditions for the long-suffering people of Zimbabwe, but also make them once again a thriving [...]
Grant Makers Pledge $90-Million for Overseas Think Tanks – Good News??
What does the Atlas Economic Research Foundation share with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC)? With the recent announcement that the latter three organizations have committed $90-million over five years to fund independent “think tanks,” all four groups share the belief that [...]
2009 Africa Resource Bank: Tanzania!
The Inter Region Economic Network (IREN), a Nairobi-based free-market think tank, has just announced that the 7th annual Africa Resource Bank meeting will take place from November 11-14th in Arusha, Tanzania. Launched in 2003 by IREN, the Africa Resource Bank brings together like-minded academics, policy makers, think tank leaders, business leaders and civil society members [...]
IMANI Launches “Red Flag Alerts”
The Accra-based IMANI Center for Policy & Education just launched a new online “red flag alert” service to keep its readers on top of developing stories and emerging trends related to IMANI’s focus areas without having to wade through long policy papers. Click here for an alert on the status of oil production in Uganda [...]
Trade Petition Results Trigger Prime Time News Coverage in Ghana
After publishing a petition urging G20 leaders to support free trade and not protectionist policies, the IMANI Center for Policy and Education received a request from The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) to use their petition during a prime time news segment. The GBC is the public broadcaster of Ghana, and has simultaneous country-wide transmission on [...]
Are Ghana’s Capital Outflows Linked to Investor Anxiety?
“While there is a trend of accelerating capital outflows,” explains Franklin Cudjoe and Bright Simons of the Accra-based think tank, IMANI Center for Policy Education, “it is not certain that it is due to a heightened sense of investor anxiety.” In this recent op-ed, Cudjoe and Simons suggest that investors could be taking their money [...]
Finding Answers to Africa’s Questions
The Inter Region Economic Network‘s “Africa’s Ultimate Question Series” seeks to generate debate and seek answers to key issues affecting Africa. The latest question in this series is: Whose interests does the African press serve? Find the answer is this short video. The Inter Region Economic Network is a Nairobi-based think tank whose mission is [...]
Vested Interests Thwart Counterfeit Drug Policies
In a recent article, Bright Simons of Accra-based IMANI: Center for Policy Education, reports that up to one in three medicines coming into Africa are counterfeit, and that they are causing widespread suffering and death across the continent. “Cheap drugs are a boon to health, but they must be of a high standard lest they [...]
Zimbabwe: A Sinking Titanic?
The economy in Zimbabwe has virtually collapsed, inflation is running at 1,700 percent and unemployment is currently at 70 percent. Zambian president, Levy Mwanawasa, described Zimbabwe as a “sinking Titanic” which millions were abandoning. This is the picture that George B.N. Ayittey paints of Zimbabwe in his recent article which calls for “an urgent resolution” [...]
New Opportunity for Students & Young Professionals in Africa
From August 16-21, 2009, the IMANI Center for Policy & Education will be hosting the 2009 Students & Young Professionals African Liberty Academy at the Ashesi University in Ghana. If you are a student or young professional that is committed to impacting Africa’s development and interested in the ideas of liberty, then this event is [...]
Nigerian Think Tank Op-Ed Triggers Central Bank Probe
In a recent op-ed, two fellows of the Lagos-based Initiative for Public Policy Analysis caution that the government should not intervene to prop up Nigeria’s banks because previous interventions proved to be wasteful and because these banks have perpetually claimed profitability in their annual account statements. In response to the op-ed, the Central Bank of [...]
New Hope for South Africa?
South African general elections have been set for April 22nd. In this recent article, Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute and South African MP Tony Leon, suggest that the break-up of the African National Congress and the forthcoming general election could provide a unique opportunity for a realignment of forces in South African politics, The [...]
Malaria Drug Loses Potency
Malaria continues to be a leading cause of illness and death in Africa, Latin America and Southern Asia. According to the World Health Organization, there were 247 million cases of malaria in 2006, which caused about 880,000 deaths, mostly among African children. Groups like Africa Fighting Malaria, a non-profit health advocacy organization, are working tirelessly to [...]
Libertarian Texts Now Available in Swahili
Swahili versions of libertarian texts are being made available atwww.africanliberty.org. The first text posted to this website is Tom Palmer’s Twenty Myths About Markets (in Swahili: Hoja Ishirini za Uongo kuhusu Masoko). In the coming days, texts by Frédéric Bastiat, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Hayek and others will be posted on the website. Please spread this news to [...]
Ghana’s Next Four Years
Last week, Ghanaians elected John Evans Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the next president of Ghana. In a recent Ghanaian radio news program, Franklin Cudjoe of the IMANI Center for Policy and Education discusses the challenges facing President Mills over the course of the next four years. Click here (4 of 11) to hear Cudjoe’s insights [...]
Ghana Elects New President
John Atta-Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and candidate for the opposition party, was declared Ghana’s president-elect by the Electoral Commission on Saturday January 3rd. Mills secured 50.23% of the total votes cast in the run-off election. His opponent, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, secured the remaining 49.77% of the votes. News reports from the [...]
