The following is culled from the Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, 24 October 2014. PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR…
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The International Decade for People of African Descent
Appiah – This decade 2015-2014 has been declared the International Decade for People of African Descent. It’s a laudable initiative but not a strong enough denunciation…
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Tackling Youth Under-Employability in sub-Saharan Africa
* An edited version of this article was published on the Fair Observer platform. To become a transformational force for good, Africa’s youths must be…
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Global Inequality: The Hard Facts
PDF VERSION OF BLOG ENTRY AVAILABLE HERE: GLOBAL INEQUALITY_The Hard_Facts On a global level, instead of international tax and monetary policies shrinking global inequality, they have…
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What are Illicit Financial Flows?
The Global financial Integrity disclosed that, “As a percent of GDP, Sub-Saharan Africa suffers more from illicit financial outflows than any other region in the…
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Africa: Tackling Illicit Outflows
The Global Financial Integrity (GFI) report estimates that sub-Saharan Africa loses more than twice as much in illicit financial outflows than it receives in aid.…
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One bane of Africa’s Underdevelopment: Illicit financial outflows
Though the beneficiary of many development programs, sub-Saharan Africa still hosts some of the world’s poorest UNDP Human Development Indicies (HDIs). Qustion is why? One…
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Conditions Ripe for Industrialisation
Africa is poised to becoming the most populated continent in a few decades with its current population forecasted to double in a mere 36years by…
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Tax Malfeasance & the Global Leadership Vacuum
I wrote a blog piece for the Africa Progress Panel website published 03.09.2013 leading to the G20 meetings. It discussed how the G20 could fare…
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Why Africa is relevant to the U.S.?
This article was originally published on the Africa Progress Panel Website HERE. This graph is taken from the 2013 Africa Progress Report and is here used…
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Africa’s Natural Resource Paradox
At the Open for Growth event on the G8 agenda of transparency, Prime Minister David Cameron, host of this year’s G8 Summit cited the 2013 Africa…
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Transparency in the Extractives Industry
Transparency is one of the main themes tackled in the fantastic Africa Progress Report 2013 on Equity in Extractives. This lack of transparency in the extractives sector…
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