Africa as a continent is home to quite a sizable portion of the world’s minerals and natural resources. In development circles, it is not…
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Africa Must Industrialize Now
This piece was originally published by Solomon Appiah on the Fair observer Platform on January 12, 2014. In order to make its current growth sustainable,…
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Economic Growth and Development
Africa will celebrate 52 years of regionalism on 25 May 2015. The Organization of African Unity (OAU) was set up to “safeguard and consolidate the…
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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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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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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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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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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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50th Anniversary OAU/AU: Evolution of Peace and Security
On 25 May 2013, Africa celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). This organization was established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on…
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Equity in Africa’s Extractives
Below is an article I wrote for the FAIR OBSERVER° online magazine. As is common with media outlets, the original piece submitted underwent significant…
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