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the IMF's view of the prospects for the region: Growth in the region is projected to dip to 6 percent in 2008 and 2009. The fall is due mainly to the global food and fuel price shock, which has weighed particularly on growth in oil-importing countries, and to the global financial market turmoil, which has slowed global growth and demand for Africa's exports.

The Nigerians are heading home...

I'm most curious about the displaced people nine months on; the politics that most seem to focus on will matter little if the wounds, social, physical and economic are not addressed... revisit for piece on internally displaced

working paper on the impact of capital flight from Africa on development

informal sector actors and their intersection with banking... Note that "they had put in place software to monitor members so that the public would continue to trust their operations" - also note competition with communication centres and barbers' saloon

what happens when the conventional wisdom (aka the Washington Post's view) is to invest in Africa? Big Capital always seeks new frontiers, pity though, the Chinese have a head start

international donors, the World Bank and most African governments for decades have largely ignored the needs of farmers, despite the fact that agriculture is the continent's largest economic sector and biggest employer. Not Ghana though!

Ghana for one has almost escaped the sometimes unbearable clutches of the IMF. Perhaps we are now "mature enough" to actually invest in infrastructure without the paternalistic attitudes and rhetoric

puff piece on shea butter cooperatives that are finally reaping benefits.

Ghana now accounts for as much as 30 percent of all poultry products imported into West Africa sub region from the EU. These imports of live birds, frozen chicken parts and full chicken are posing serious threats to the local poultry industry. According t

Simplistic. Correlation is not causation. Depleted fishing grounds vrs teeming masses swarming European beaches.

Funny that I won't be going through this this year... It is a golden rule of travelling home ( and a fact of life) that you can never satisfy everybody's needs.

Fancy that, a country subsidizes its farmers (fertilizer controls), improves food security and now exports. Whither free trade and World Bank prescriptions. I suppose Europe and the US don't provide agricultural subsidies to their farmers, right?

Malawi has broken with an orthodoxy long advocated by Western donor nations: The impoverished country has gone back to subsidizing poor farmers.The subsidies have been a raging success.

Major infrastructure gaps need to be addressed, particularly in energy, water, information and communications technology (ICT), and some areas of transport. The annual funding gap in infrastructure is about $350-430 million. Quoth the world bank

Ernest Aryeetey on internal versus external financing for development. Africa's overall share in world exports fell from 3.7 % in 1970 to 2% in 1998, and has risen only marginally since then. Also a look at the soft options, reducing transaction cost

Perhaps the premier Ghanaian economist in academia from what I can tell, albeit working from without... lots of good papers and modeling... need to brush up on the mathematics

Stock market fever is sweeping Kenya and other sub-Saharan African countries such as Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria and Zambia, where stock exchanges, along with national economies, have shown steady gains in recent years as people who have traditionally inves