Ethiopia’s FX Black Market – Why Not Just Free The Exchange Rate?
Ethiopia has been cracking down on the black market in foreign exchange in that country. A more sensible idea would be to simply move...
Let’s Copy Ethiopia’s Excellent Method Of Dealing With Foreign NGOs
Ethiopia might seem a strange place to be taking governance tips from but there's merit in this proposal - limits upon what foreign financed...
Ghana’s Menzgold – Welcome To Another Ponzi, This One From NAM
It always surprises when people get sucked into a Ponzi scheme such as the Menzgold one currently unraveling in Ghana. Surprises because the signs...
There’s A Simple Solution To Ethiopia’s Low Coffee Prices
It is entirely true that coffee growers in poor places don't receive very much from the sale of a cup of java in a...
Fascinating Idea From Ghana – Impeach Finance Ministers For Deficit Of 6% Of GDP
This is an interesting little piece of macroeconomic management being proposed in Ghana. If the Finance Minister allows a budget deficit of over 5%...
Hilarity In Ethiopia – Statistically Carless Country Has Car Free Day
This little story brought more than just the one gurgle, snort. Ethiopia is one of the poorer places on the planet - getting richer,...
IMF Tells Ethiopia – No More Foreign Currency Market Borrowings, Probably Sensibly
The IMF has told the Ethiopian Government that it really must stop borrowing from the overseas markets in foreign currency - this is probably...
IRA Financing Techniques Turn Up In Oromo, Ethiopia – Bank Robberies
It would appear that some of those old Irish Republican Army financing techniques have been turning up in the Oromo region of Ethiopia -...
Zimbabwe’s Real Riots Problem – Modern Monetary Theory Strikes Again
That Zimbabwe hasn't been well ruled since, oooh, 1965 is both obvious and well known. But it's the quite how the ruling has been...
Ghana’s Coronavirus Infections As A Proxy For All Of Africa
We do know that the coronavirus - or CORVID-19 - is going to spread in Africa. But we have a certain problem with knowing...