Publications
Procurement of Public Private Partnerships: An Innovative Road to Infrastructure Development. A Fast Track Approach To Railway Concessioning In Africa – A Derailment Of World Bank Procedures? The Case of Ghana.
Ghana’s vision to be a trade and investment Gateway to West Africa, led the Government to commit itself to a concession of railway operations to the private sector. This paper juxtaposes the processes used to select a private sector partner with the World Bank’s standard procedures and examines whether the concession option would yield the desired objectives. The paper also uses the new Public Procurement Act as a yardstick to test the process in the light of the unique challenges which affect PPP infrastructure arrangements in Africa.
Intellectual Property: Causing Confusion in Relation to a Product: White Westinghouse
A recent decision of the High Court, Accra, Ghana on January 31st, 2006 which enforced the Unfair Competition Act, 2000, Act 589, provides some comfort for businesses whose reputation and goodwill garnered over the years in respect of their products are exploited by persons who flood the Ghanaian Market with products which cause or are likely to “cause confusion with respect to another person’s enterprise or its activities, in particular the products or services offered by that enterprise….”
Commercial: Facilitating Business Through a Credit Referencing System in Ghana
Parliament has passed a credit reporting law, a first in Ghana. The law will inter alia regulate the operation of credit bureaus and credit reporting in Ghana and give financial institutions the right to access the credit history of borrowers.
The Impact of the Proposed Trust Bill on the Governance and Accountability of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Ghana - By Isabel Boaten
Non?Governmental organizations (NGOs) in Ghana have over the years operated in an environment with minimal standards for measuring their transparency and accountability. Although governance of NGOs has become increasingly topical in recent years, little has been done by way of compliance. Interventions made to ensure good corporate governance have generally been in the form of conditions prescribed for projects funded by donor agencies and international NGOs and infrequent directives issued by the Ministry of Manpower, Labour & Employment.
Procurement of Public Private Partnerships: An Innovative Road to Infrastructure Development. A Fast Track Approach To Railway Concessioning In Africa – A Derailment Of World Bank Procedures? The Case of Ghana
Ghana’s vision to be a trade and investment Gateway to West Africa, led the Government to commit itself to a concession of railway operations to the private sector. This paper juxtaposes the processes used to select a private sector partner with the World Bank’s standard procedures and examines whether the concession option would yield the desired objectives. The paper also uses the new Public Procurement Act as a yardstick to test the process in the light of the unique challenges which affect PPP infrastructure arrangements in Africa.
