Editorials/Opinion

The current market turmoil, marked by a huge spike in uncertainty, has shaken confidence across the global economy and prompted many to conclude all policy options have been exhausted. That impression is wrong – and could lead to paralysis. After the crisis unfolded in late 2008, global policymakers came together …

For sometime, the centre of Africa’s anarchic one-party systems, gory tyrants, brutal dictatorships, self-serving military juntas and hideous civil wars, West Africa is changing and indisputably sowing democratic seeds. Whether in Cape Verde, Liberia, Guinea-Conakry, Niger, Nigeria or Guinea Bissau multi-party elections are blowing across the once politically sick region. …

The August 17 meeting between Ghana’s President John Atta Mills and Botswana’s Ian Khama goes between the normal symbolic bilateral sweet talks. In contemporary African thinking, the core issue between Ghana and Botswana is how their respective democracies are harbingers of progress for the entire African democratic and development growth. …

As progress act, Africans are questioning their culture in terms of their advancement. The strategic issue of culture in Africa’s progress is gaining momentum. In Ghana, the culture-progress debate has given birth to an enlightenment movement. The Ghanaian mass media aside, the prestigious Ghana Academy of Arts and Science has …

Ghana is seriously off track, as far as improved sanitation coverage is concerned, with a current national figure of 13.4%, and that shows clearly that even in 100 years, the country will not achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on sanitation The arguments advanced by some proponents of improved sanitation …

1. We can’t afford it: Ghana is not a self-sufficient economy. The fact is most of our most important public programs (like the National Health Insurance Scheme, School Feeding Program, etc) and our national budget breathe on foreign aid and debt. The question for us to ponder on is, can …

Ghanaians appear to be under the clench of prophetic spells. It is as if Ghanaians are hooked on some prophetic drug and cannot be rehabilitated. This has put Ghanaians are on some sort of permanent prophetic high. It has become a real development threat, making the prophetic genie hard to …

If I had just five minutes to teach a politician macro-economics, I would tell him about the Money equation: MV = PY where M is the amount of money in the economy; V is the velocity of money and it’s just a measure of the number of times a cedi …

On Wednesday, June 22, 2011, Ghana and indeed the entire world, was greeted with news of Ghana’s immediate past President, John Agyekum Kufour, sharing honours with Brazil’s former President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as joint winner of the 2011 World Food Prize and the first Ghanaian to do so. …

Kwesi Nyantakyi’s plan to set up an Ethics Committee seems to have settled the neutrals in Ghana football but could this be another “red herring” in the making. Minutes after he was given a second four-year tenure in office, the 43-year-old lawyer acknowledged that his biggest challenge will be in …