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West Africa: Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Liberia – An Assessment of Central Bank Policy Effectiveness (2018-2023)

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Published: September 7, 2026 Francis Boakai Passawe* School of Postgraduate Studies in Economics, University of Liberia, West Africa, Monrovia, Liberia *Corresponding author: Francis Boakai Passawe, School of Postgraduate Studies in Economics University of Liberia, West Africa, Monrovia, Liberia. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines ABSTRACT Despite Liberia recording one of the…

Entertainment over policy? White House arcade games ignite backlash | Donald Trump News

eriinfo.com1 week ago04 mins

Critics argue that the administration’s arcade games prioritise entertainment over pressing issues like rising costs and foreign conflicts. Published On 4 Sep 20264 Sep 2026 The White House’s unveiling of five arcade-style games on its website, each believed to be promoting a different policy of United States President Donald Trump’s agenda, has ignited backlash, with…

Husted defends energy policy as GOP warns data centers put Ohio seat at risk

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago06 mins

Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, speaks during a Senate Appropriations committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, July 21, 2026. Finn Gomez | Getty Images Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, defended President Donald Trump‘s energy and economic agenda on Friday during an appearance at a southwestern Ohio steel mill with Vice President JD Vance,…

Trump bemoans Fed interest rate policy, says U.S. should be paying much less

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago06 mins

President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a meeting with cryptocurrency executives in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Aug. 19, 2026. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed frustration that the Federal Reserve isn’t cutting interest rates, insisting that solid economic data shouldn’t stop the central…

AI adoption exposes higher education policy gaps

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago08 mins

AI presents teaching opportunities, but VUT warns universities need stronger governance, ethical guidelines and lecturer training. (Image created via ChatGPT) Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in higher learning, teaching and assessment is outpacing the policies, skills and ethical safeguards needed to govern it responsibly, according to research presented by Vaal University of Technology (VUT). The study,…

South Africa’s AI policy collapse shows up in World Bank report

eriinfo.com1 month ago05 mins

South Africa has been excluded from the World Bank’s global map of economies with a national AI strategy, a direct consequence of the collapse of the country’s draft AI policy in April. The exclusion appears in World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence, the Bank’s flagship annual publication, released on Tuesday. A note…

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Africa: Financial Inclusion – Policy Fragmentation, Dollar Dependence Stall Cross-Border Payments in Africa

eriinfo.com2 months ago07 mins

Many cross-border transactions still rely on the US dollar as an intermediary currency. At the same time, African currencies are often difficult to exchange directly, and few mechanisms exist for countries to settle payments with one another in local currencies. Cross-border payments in Africa remain among the most expensive in the world, despite the rapid…

Radical rethink for South Africa’s national AI policy

eriinfo.com2 months ago09 mins

South Africa’s redrafted national AI policy will not prescribe rules to industry. Instead, individual sectors will be left to write their own AI strategies off a set of national guidelines. That is according to department of communications & digital technologies acting deputy director-general Jeanette Morwane, who told TechCentral on the sidelines of the inaugural Naspers/Prosus…

Vodacom scales back dividend policy to fund growth push

eriinfo.com2 months ago06 mins

Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub Vodacom has lowered the floor on its dividend payout policy, cutting it to at least 65% of headline earnings from at least 75% previously, in a change disclosed alongside first-quarter trading numbers and the completion of its long-awaited Safaricom transaction. The shift is significant for a counter widely held by…

Africa: IFC, Industrial Policy and the Private Sector: Development Through the Lens of the Thiam Threshold

eriinfo.com2 months ago020 mins

From Project Bankability to Building Productive and Financeable Economies As the World Bank Group places job creation, private sector mobilization and productive transformation back at the center of its agenda, evaluations by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) engagement in fragile economies invite us to ask a fundamental question: Is…