Ghana, often hailed as a beacon of democracy in Africa, stands at a critical juncture. While the country has made significant ...

The Asantehene 39;s recent call for all Kumasi projects to be managed locally rather than from Accra underscores the urgent ...

Arrangements must be made for the transfer of central government staff and assets. The political impetus behind decentralization prompts central governments to take dramatic steps first—granting local ...

Dear President John Dramani Mahama, I write as a concerned citizen to propose a bold reform for your second-term government: ...

Decentralisation in Poland is a fact ... Vice-Marshall of Pomorskie Province at the discussion panel, “Local Government as the Foundation of Democracy”. He went on to outline various instances ...

The research draws on a preliminary hypothesis that the failure of decentralisation is a function of a broader failure of governance linked to state weakness and dysfunction that is compounded by ...

A political scientist at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Amakye -Boateng has criticised ...

Legislating decentralization in the administration of local government: the reforms of the socialist Fifth Republic 5. Legislating decentralization in the politics of local government Part II. The ...

Whether local democracy can defend itself from ... The country has risen in international assessments of governance, and decentralization remains popular, with 80% support in polls.