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Rawlings' Legacy: Economic Reforms and Impact on ordinary Ghanaian LISTEN JAN 26, 2021 Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, a former Airforce Officer, who presided over the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) as Chairman and Head of State for 11 years, implemented many life-changing economic policies that defined Ghana's economic structures and aided its socio-economic development. It must be noted that most of those economic reforms were proposed and supervised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank from 1982 to 1992 under the PNDC regime and during the cons...

TODAY January 23, 2021 Experts have advised the Federal Government to consider developing a policy that will specifically address youth development. Founder and Project Director at Regalo Hope Foundation Resource Centre, Chinenye Onuorah, gave the suggestion as part of measures to address economic challenges in the country, adding that youths are major forces in the promotion of economic growth and development. Onuorah, who was speaking on the sidelines of an empowerment programme organised by Regalo Hope Foundation resource centre, also identified the need for government investment in yout...

By Sean Tembo – PeP President 1. Every well-meaning Zambian is agreeable that things are very bad right now. The economy is crumbling with companies closing operations almost every day. The prices for goods and services are increasing on a weekly basis. There is a total breakdown in the rule of law whereby ruling party cadres are more powerful than the Police or the Military. Corruption in all its forms has reached unprecedented levels. In other words, President Edgar Lungu has failed to properly lead this nation and 12th of August presents an opportunity to the Zambian people to withdraw ...

Nigerians should diversify income sources to fight recession – Ex-President of CIBN, Ajibola Published 19 January 2021 In this interview with NIKE POPOOLA, a professor of Economics at the Babcock University and past President, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, Segun Ajibola, speaks on the prospects and challenges of the Nigerian economy in the New Year Oil price has dropped drastically since COVID-19 emerged, thus affecting the government’s revenue. What does this portend for the economy? The drop in oil revenue is not usually a good omen for the financing of Nigeria’s nationa...

Posted on January 12th, 2021 Garvin Karunaratne, PhD in Non-Formal Education & Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University Formerly of the SLAS- Government Agent, Matara in 1971-1973.  A Country that is saddled with a massive unsustainable foreign debt- as much as $ 56 billion, the servicing of which requires some $ 4 billion annually, where the outlay required for imports far outweighs the value that can be realized from exports, where the normal inflow of dollars from Middle East workers has ceased,  has the only option of import substitution to enable its ...