M. Akuffo

Economist and 📈 risk analyst, fostering Africa's growth. Chelsea FC fan!⚽

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@richardhirschs1 The 1973 parallel is instructive. Prices never returned to pre-embargo levels. The real question: does the prewar supply architecture come back? Vessel traffic fell 70-80% within days. Hormuz remains severely restricted. That doesn't reset on a ceasefire.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

We celebrate duty-free access as a win. But market access without value-addition is volume without margin. Kenya got the door open-who owns the corridor?

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@TheOrganicPod Duty-free access is a start; the real test is whether Kenya moves beyond raw exports. Local processing captures the margin and creates jobs. Policy should focus there next.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@FareedZakaria The California paradox is what happens when regulatory complexity outpaces institutional effectiveness. Spending more to deliver less isn't a resource problem, it's a governance problem. Capital notices these things.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@M_C_Klein Speed without strategy is just faster debt accumulation. Ghana's demand-driven path looks unglamorous next to six million desert units, but building around actual economic strengths creates resilience, not ruins.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@JohnGardnerVoH A 300% input cost swing would be existential for a small manufacturer in Accra. Same volatility, no hedging, currency risk layered on top. For Ghana and similar economies, policy consistency isn't optional for industrial development.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

£250m for 20,000 specialists is roughly £12,500 per head. That's a recruitment budget, not a retention strategy. Talent stays where the regulatory and tax environment rewards risk.

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

Some really interesting ideas in this from @wesstreeting.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@proshare @ngxgrp The data tells an interesting story. Repricing risk is not structural impairment; that distinction is where serious analysis starts.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@CECinvestor Ghana's mining sector illustrates the gap: resource wealth, limited processing. The beneficiation opportunity is an energy question first.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@CapitalPmh The M&A wave is real but the framing matters. These are solid businesses being bought cheap because Westminster's tax and regulatory uncertainty holds down valuations. The buyers understand this. Does SW1?

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@SamuelFPT SamuelFPT is right on viability. But you can't schedule what you can't guarantee; generation and transmission bottlenecks upstream make this a coordination problem, not just a commercial one.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@reieurope If even Germany couldn't sustain export-led growth against Chinese competition, what does that imply for emerging economies still building that model? The path isn't abandoning exports; it's diversifying dependency.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

Taxes don't reduce working hours once you account for labour regulations and formalisation. Institutional architecture, not incentives, shapes work patterns. That reframes how we think about reform in developing economies.

[IMF Middle East & North Africa @IMFinMENA]

Economic growth does not lead people to work less. What matters instead are policy choices about education, pensions, and labor rules, Amory Gethin and Emmanuel Saez write in F&D magazine. https://t.co/A4K2mpc1g0

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@Shejackiesays Two days without rain and water still stands. That tells you everything about urban planning capacity. Flood resilience isn't luxury spending; it's the foundation for any credible economic transformation.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@ECA_OFFICIAL @ECASROSA Cross-border payments are the quiet bottleneck. When settlement takes days, working capital costs eat SME margins before a product reaches market. Fix the payment rails and much else follows.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

Visa-free travel is progress, but intra-African flights remain among the world's most expensive. AfCFTA needs open skies and competition policy to deliver.

[Human Progress @HumanProgress]

"The number of tourists visiting African countries grew by almost 8% last year—the fastest growth in the world...

It’s being driven in large part, experts say, by a growing African middle class."
https://t.co/tsEkEojDHr

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@Channel1TVGHA 50% degradation before intervention is a governance failure. Tree planting is reactive. Ghana needs long-term enforcement, not election-cycle responses to crises.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@JeromeOtchere That black star on yellow is timeless. The white jersey always looked like it belonged to someone else.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

@PeterDiamandis Institutional filings and primary data. In my work, the gap between media narratives and ground reality is often enormous. Numbers reported to regulators face consequences; headlines don't.

[M. Akuffo @datanfan96]

De-growth is a thesis for those who've already grown. For the markets I cover, growth isn't optional-it's existential.