03/29/2011 | by Yaw Nyarko
The Vice President of South Africa, Kgalema Mothlante, stopped by NYU for a public lecture co-sponsored by Africa House. As with most events, the really interesting things happen during the Q & A…
02/11/2011 | by Yaw Nyarko
For a follow-up on Ending Corruption in Africa, and reflections on issues brought up by the Anas Aremeyaw Anas video, see this paper by my good friend and colleague Atsu Amegashie, an economist at U. Guelph in Canada.
02/10/2011 | by Yaw Nyarko
A Ghanaian reporter has captured the attention of Ghanaians in the past few days. Anas Aremeyaw Anas has produced a video showing the extent of corruption in Ghana …
12/16/2010 | by Yaw Nyarko
In my earlier post on Ivory Coast, I praised the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for their boldness in suspending Ivory Coast from their bodies to protest the fact that the incumbent would not agree to leave…
12/12/2010 | by Yaw Nyarko
From all the information coming in, the opposition candidate Alassane Ouattara and his party clearly won the recent presidential elections in Côte d’Ivoire
10/16/2010 | by Yaw Nyarko
I was interviewed by the BBC, together with Olav Kjørven, Assistant Secretary General and Director of Development Policy at the UN Development Program…
10/04/2010 | by Yaw Nyarko
YouTube video and the Stand-up Economist.
08/23/2010 | by Yaw Nyarko
I have recently finished reading Mark Twain’s “Following the Equator.” The writing is of course wonderful – what a joy. Twain writes about his journey around the equator around 1896…
06/19/2010 | by Yaw Nyarko
I just made a pitch in a video for the great book “Portfolio’s of the Poor” by my colleague Jonathan Morduch and others. It is great to have the poor of the world being treated as ordinary and everyday real people…
02/18/2010 | by Yaw Nyarko
I took a cab this morning – it was a Ghanaian taxi driver. He remembered picking me up several years ago. What a memory he has. Anyway, he has 4 children, two older ones one of which is a doctor…