Development
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The Impasse in Patriotism |
| Public spirit gives a nation’s people a common purpose and rallies them to support government in times of crisis. However, it becomes dangerous when politicians, government agencies and “special interests” manipulate it... |
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The Art of Legal Plunder |
| When politics replaces markets, investment projects often reduce wealth rather than enhance it. The experience of Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union explain this point.... |
Q&A
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Beating All Odds |
| When I turned eleven, my father never used to leave me in the house when he went to the farm. During the weekends and holidays, I spent more hours in the farm. From him I learnt basic farm practices... |
Regions
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Factoring Culture in Development |
| If Ghanaian elites, as key directors of progress, do not think within their values first, and any other second, can we say they are not intelligent?... |
Profiles
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History of Mombasa |
| Mombasa is the second largest city in Kenya. Located on Kenya's Eastern coastline bordering the Indian Ocean, Mombasa’s original Arabic name is Manbasa. In Kiswahili, it is called Kisiwa Cha Mvita, which means "Island of War"... |
Commentary
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MDGs: Africa Has No Excuse |
| While openness, accountability and coordination at the local and national level are both desirable and necessary to achieve the MDGs, there are still structural problems about the way in which our world is currently organized around the hegemony of a triumphalist neo liberal ideology that will severely limit the capacity of many African states to achieve the MDGs.... |
Finance and Banking
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Embracing the Bourse with a Fallback Strategy |
| The market is not a gamble but a good investment destination. Unlike the conventional business where we plan to make profit, losses, increase income or cut down expenses, you watch for the decisions that a company’s management makes to see how that works for the stock.... |
Information Technology
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ICTs Should be SME Tailored |
| To ensure that SMEs get proper benefits from IT, they should go through Strategic Technology Planning. This is an involving and reflective process in which an organization ensures that the technology it invests furthers its mission.... |
News Round Up
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Somalia’s President Dissolves the Cabinet |
| Somalia’s President, Adbullahi Yusuf, dissolved the Government’s “bloated” Cabinet, saying it had failed to deliver during its two-year tenure.... |
Agriculture
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The Cost of Evading Cost |
| People have been engaging in agriculture for filling the stomach, what is called food security and subsistence farming. This alone cannot give you development. You must also become income secure.... |
Announcement
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The 2006 Ronald H. Brown African Affairs Series |
| Constituency For Africa (CFA) will be organizing the Ronald H. Brown African Affairs Series from September 5 -11th this year.... |
Thoughts
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Terrorism another Economic Cost |
| It is a matter of time and Kenyans will find it difficult to transact in cash because the government ought to 'watch' and be sure that it's not terrorists at work! Soon all taxpayers will have to fund a huge big brother machinery to keep watch over every good and bad person's movement.... |
