How Africa Can Tackle Premature De-Industrialisation
By Justin Kanzah-Andoh Introduction Since the independence movements of the 1960s and the 1970s, Sub-Saharan African countries along with the field of development economics have tried to find the key that will unlock economic transformation. Over that time, the debates of what is required have fluctuated from state-led import substitution with high tariff barriers to…
Secret Diplomacy and Democracy in The Age of Wikileaks
By Andrew Kourti The practice of secret diplomacy is a feature which has remained prevalent throughout the history of international relations. Secret diplomacy is characterised by the total exclusion of the general public and media in foreign negotiations and related policy-making, providing a high level of discretion for state officials (Gilboa 1998: 213; Bjola 2013:…
Citizen Diplomacy: An Alternative Solution for Cypriot-Turkish Animosity?
By Andrew Kourti Cyprus is a country that has remained divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded the island, in response to a military coup backed by the Greek government. Conflict was not new to the country. Divided on the issue of Enosis (Cypriot reunification with Greece), the Greek-Cypriot National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) and…
An Analysis of Ghana’s Industrial Policy Strategy
By Justin Kanzah-Andoh Introduction Ghana is a low middle-income African country with an economy that is still low in complexity, with its largest net exports being crude petroleum, cocoa, and gold. Since independence in 1957, Ghana has undertaken different approaches to industrialise. From a centrally planned import substitution model to a private sector-led industrialisation strategy…
Did The Financial Crisis Represent a Systemic Failure of Market-Based Finance?
By Justin Kanzah-Andoh Introduction The financial crisis of 2007-9 has often been attributed to the failure of the subprime mortgage market, regulatory, and rating failures (Baily, Litan, and Johnson, 2008). However, these explanations do not go far enough to explain the reason for the severity of the crisis and why it spread across the developed…
AfCFTA Negotiations – based on a policy brief by Landry Signé and Colette van der Ven
By Justin Kanzah-Andoh Edited by Alexander Shaheen This is an article based on a policy brief by Landry Signé and Colette van der Ven on the AfCFTA negotiations, and the key areas that need to be addressed in order for the free trade agreement to be a success. This is the first article of two.…
Peer-To-Peer Lending: An Analysis of Alternative Finance
By Justin Kanzah-Andoh Technology is increasingly changing the way humans live and has been causing disruptions to the landscapes of several industries. The financial sector is no different and is also experiencing changes due to new technologies and methods. The emergence of peer-to-peer lending markets (P2P) and crowdfunding finance as an alternative to traditional lending…
The Fukushima Daiichi Disaster – A Report on Risk Identification Failures
By Justin Kanzah-Andoh Introduction On the 11th of March 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake caused a tsunami to hit the Tohoku coastline of Japan. The tsunami caused 20,000 casualties and inundated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, causing a loss of electricity and a failure of the backup generators. The resulting stoppage of the plant’s cooling…
China’s Transition from a Planned Economy to a Socialist Market Economy
By Justin Kanzah-Andoh Since the 1979 China has become a global powerhouse; rapid economic development has meant that China has gone from one of the poorest, most autarkic countries in the world to the second largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP, a leading destination for foreign direct investment, and a dominant…
Comments on Adam Curtis’ Hypernormalisation
By Justin Kanzah-Andoh After watching the documentary HyperNomalisation by Adam Curtis on the BBC, I collected some responses to the film from the internet, I believe is it important to engage with a plurality of views even those we find hard to stomach. It can represent the views of others hidden by echo chambers facilitated…
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