02/14/2014 | by Yaw Nyarko
The value of the Ghanaian cedi has taken a somewhat big hit recently, measuring a decline of 8% against the dollar in January, and continuing in its downward trend with a 1.2 percentage point decline in the past several days…
02/01/2014 | by Yaw Nyarko
Without a doubt, the people in developing countries are right in emphasizing the importance of roads. It is for many villages, the very definition of modernity…
05/31/2013 | by Yaw Nyarko
My good friend and colleague gave a great talk the other day. It was on aspirations…
02/21/2013 | by Yaw Nyarko
I am just leaving Ghana to New York. We just opened in Accra a building next to the NYU in Accra campus which we will use as the Ghana office of our Center for Technology and Economic Development…
01/23/2013 | by Yaw Nyarko
I watched a live session of the World Economic Forum today – no I am not in Davos but watching this from computer in freezing New York…
10/24/2012 | by Yaw Nyarko
The Financial Times has just leaked word on a report by Nuhu Ribadu, former head of Nigeria’s anti-corruption efforts, on the effect of corruption in the Nigerian oil industry…
08/08/2012 | by Yaw Nyarko
On my mind today, perhaps because I am doing some proposal writing, is something that has been nagging me for years, and perhaps explains a lot of the economics I do. Is there a separate economic theory for poor, different from the rich?
01/20/2012 | by Yaw Nyarko
I just came back from the New York University dinner gala celebration for Tom Sargent in recognition of his award of the Nobel Prize…
12/19/2011 | by Yaw Nyarko
Almost every international body has condemned the incumbent and presumed loser of the recent Ivory Coast election: the African Union, the Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS), the UN, many African countries, etc…
04/13/2011 | by Yaw Nyarko
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…