"Unshackling Africa"

Fellow F2T blogger Franklin Cudjoe, whose Ghanaian think tank Imani is a member of the Freedom to Trade Coalition, writes about Africa's home-grown problems with trade in today's Wall Street Journal. (For non-subscribers, the article is available on Imani's website). Here's an excerpt:

African leaders must be pushed to reduce economic intervention, free financial markets, remove bureaucratic obstacles to setting up businesses, establish property rights and enforce contract law. These are the forces that release entrepreneurial energy. But the ruling cliques will do none of these unless forced to do so as a condition of aid.