“When women are fully involved, the benefits can be seen immediately: families are healthier and better fed; their income, savings and reinvestment go up. And what is true of families is also true of communities and, in the long run, of whole countries…”

African central banks, buoyed by the dire need of infrastructure in the continent are pushing policies that will encourage banks in the continent to cut down on their purchases of government bonds and instead lend more to local companies that are key to creating a functioning economy and jobs.

Democracy is popularly defined as a system of government designed by the people for the people. The adoption of this style as best practice of governance by several nation states is supported by the far reaching economic and social progress made by those countries with strong democratic principles and structures.

THERE are strong indi-cations that dockworkers plan to shut down ports operations nationwide by Thursday over delay by terminal operators to review their conditions of service six months after the subsisting one elapsed.

The most conclusive lesson of economic theories over the past three centuries is that free markets, when allowed to operate within the norms of fairness to all market participants, lead to enhanced growth in the national economy. Economic growth is the time tested and universally accepted understanding that individual and collective economic well being is necessary to measure the welfare of a nation.