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About IPPA

The Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA) is Nigeria's public policy research institute or think tank. Founded in 2002, IPPA's major concern is with the principles and institutions underlying a free and open society, with particular focus on Africa and Nigeria.

We undertake a number of activities, among them research and advocacy on public policy issues. At present, our core areas of interests include development economics, trade, entrepreneurship, property rights, education, environment, health and security.

IPPA - Open Letter to French Retailers

Economic Regulation of Payment Cards in Nigeria Stakeholder Engagement Workshop

Protea Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, 27 March 2012, 9:30 AM

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Public-Private Partnership: Will It Fix Infrastructure in Nigeria?

IPPA Ranks Top-25 Go-To Think Tank in Sub-Saharan Africa


January 25th, 2011(Lagos, Nigeria): The Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA), the 2005 award-winning organization, ranks among Top-25 Go-To think tank in Sub Saharan Africa, according to the 2010 Global Go-To think tank ranking report released on January 18, 2011 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. More

What the World Bank should know about Ghana's Success Stories

By Thompson Ayodele , The Herald, Ghana, December 10, 2010

Two decades ago, the rest of the world saw Africa as a hopeless continent. Today Ghana is one of Africa's success stories. Its economy, spurred by a thriving private sector, has grown on average by over 6 percent a year for the past five years.

A significant part of this growth has been fueled by the success of the country's palm oil industry, with over 300,000 hectares of land currently under cultivation. More

Target-setting may undermine HIV/AIDS treatment

By Thompson Ayodele ,The Punch, Wednesday, 1 Dec 2010

TODAY, the world marks the annual World AIDS Day with the theme: UniversalAccess and Human Rights. Africa, the disease’s epicentre, is home to sixty-seven per cent of people living with HIV/AIDS.

HIV/AIDS is not only a human tragedy robbing people of their lives and children of their parents, it is also an economic tragedy. More

What lack of transparency can do to oil-producing states: Lessons for Ghana

By Stephen Yeboah

Transparency works both ways and it is for the company as well as the countries --- their people need to know and the more they know what is being done for their benefit, the more they will be supportive." – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Bank's Managing Director.

Ensuring transparency in the extractive sector has never been a real priority of the state authorities of Ghana and commercial entities. As a result, the operation of the sector remains insufficiently transparent. It has always been the truth that the failures of oil-producing economies are legion and continuous.More