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Public Policy in Africa Initiative

our identity

The PPAI is Africa's think-tank. Our mission is to promote evidence-informed policies, economic liberty, entrepreneurship, women empowerment, human rights, democracy, government integrity, effective and fair justice systems that help countries in Africa prosper in free, fair and sustainable economies!

We favour a circular vision whereby we take into consideration, in addition to the economy, the society and the environment. Economists and policy analysts are following the novel coronavirus pandemic closely, and we are developing alternatives to existing policies which are capable of delivering growth needed to recover swiftly from the upcoming recession in Africa!

Founded in 2020 by Hugue Nkoutchou, the PPAI’s vision is Powering the African Economy. PPAI started as a LinkedIn group, and evolved into a think tank.

Areas of Research

Our Key areas of research include:

health

agriculture

governance

youth

employment

SMEs

education

climate change

entrepreneurship

Our Purpose

who we are

We are a rights think tank. We favor a circular vision whereby we take into consideration, in addition to the economy, the society and the environment. Economists and policy analysts are following the novel coronavirus pandemic closely, and we are developing alternatives to existing policies which are capable of delivering growth needed to recover swiftly from the upcoming recession in Africa.

The vision of the Public Policy in Africa Initiative is: Powering the African Economy.

The mission of PPAI is to promote evidence-informed policies, economic liberty, entrepreneurship, women’s empowerment, human rights, democracy, government integrity, effective and fair justice systems that help countries in Africa prosper in free, fair and sustainable economies.

Our core values define what is important to us as a think tank and give us a framework of conduct: Liberty, Integrity & Quality.

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“We can no longer continue to make policies for ourselves, our countries, our region and our continent on the basis of whatever the westerners will give us. It will not work, it has not worked...Our responsibility is to charter a path which is about how we can develop our nations ourselves.”

—Ghanian President His Excellence Nana AKUFO-ADDO’s Speech, 07 December2017

“only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”

— Milton Friedman

“The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.”

— Milton Friedman

“Basic institutions that protect the liberty of individuals to pursue their own economic interests result in greater prosperity for the larger society.”

— Adam Smith

“...where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individualefforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because it is in mostcircumstances the most efficient method known but even more because it is the only methodby which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitraryintervention of authority.”

— Frederick Hayek

"The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge."

— Arthur Lewis

"The end of Law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom."

— John Locke