2017 has been one of the best years for IMANI. Our national and international influence has been unmatched in our thirteen years of existence thanks to the support of our partners the team and the media. IMANI was one of …
Report on IMANI’s National Sanitation Forum
The forum was held on 20th March, 2018 at the British Council, Accra on the theme “Ghana’s sanitation has failed. Why and how do we get it right?”. Introduction For the past 20 years, Ghana has wrestled and continually failed …
Poor too Can Become Reliable Investors
If an economy has high savings rate, the stock money is normally used as investments in the productive sectors. In case of Nepal, looking at the past trends, the gross domestic savings as percentage of GDP has changed a lot. …
Reducing the Cost of Doing Business to Boost Private Investment and Economic Growth
Many economists of the 20th century spent their life working on theories of economic growth. They have explained their growth models in varying ways and from different angles. The technicalities in these theories might vary but if we carefully examine, …
Waste Management Options in Ghana, Future Strategy
Waste Management is an essential public service which potentially can have serious impacts on public health and environmental quality in any human settlement. By ING. Kwabena Agyei Agyepong Introduction Infections related to Water and Sanitation contribute significantly to the Global Disease …
Event Invitation: A Lecture on the Critical Future of Ghana’s Energy Sector & How to Avoid More Surprises to Ghana’s Growth Prospects
The discovery of oil and gas in Ghana was very much celebrated and looked to as a panacea to finally lift the country out of total poverty. Consequently, the share of petroleum to overall economic output increased from 6.7% of …
The fundamental flaw in project planning – The Planning Fallacy
Why do projects rarely get done on time? How come that paper you set 3 hours aside for more often than not take you 8? Why are mega-infrastructure projects almost always over budget and still nowhere near complete on projected …
Psychographics Analysis in Policy-Making
By now, you must be aware of the fact that Cambridge Analytica, a London-based consulting firm, had harvested data of about 87 million Facebook users to influence latters’ political, business and consumption priorities in countries around the world. Of many …
Key to Reforming Indian Education: Rescuing Government Policy-making and Regulatory Functions from Service Delivery
Vikas Jhunjhunwala explores pertinent ways to address the sidelined policy making and regulation in the Indian Education Sector in this article published originally in Center for Civil Society’s, Spontaneous Order. Currently the governmental roles of policy making, regulation and service …
ECONOMIC TIMELINE OF NEPAL
Economic development in Nepal has been challenging, since time immemorial, due to the frequent changes in the political leadership. The political isolation of the early Nepali kingdom fostered an economic system of rent seeking elites and resulted in increased income …
Impact Case Study: Imanifesto is Ghana's Barometer of Legitimacy for The Masses
IMANI’s IMANIFesto project featured in Atlas Network’s Spring Issue of Freedom’s Champion, a quarterly print publication, and it’s full of exciting and inspiring highlights about the worldwide freedom movement! ”Unrealistic campaign promises are a staple in elections across the world, …
The Philanthropy Forum Names IMANI CSO Think Tank Of The Year 2018
IMANI Centre for Policy and Education has been named CSO Think Tank for the Year 2018 by the Philanthropy Forum, Ghana. IMANI was awarded in recognition of its ‘’proven record of influential policy ideas, proposals and ensuring financial accountability.’’ The …
