Mahama plays down Dutch Disease in oil and gas sector

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• GHANABA 1 10 years ago

  mahama, do not forget what you have just said in France b'cos we will remind you very soon.Do not boast of your position b'cos very soon the SC will make you powerless.If I were you, I would have concentrate much on leaving t ...
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  mahama, do not forget what you have just said in France b'cos we will remind you very soon.Do not boast of your position b'cos very soon the SC will make you powerless.If I were you, I would have concentrate much on leaving the Jubilee House rather than planning further for better Ghana Agenda,Your time is limited.Mark my words.

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• ZoRRo 10 years ago

  It's also about (1) government neglecting support for traditional exports due to the new natural resource; (2) investors shift of focus due to newly found opportunities; and (3) labor movements to the new sector, neglecting ...
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  It's also about (1) government neglecting support for traditional exports due to the new natural resource; (2) investors shift of focus due to newly found opportunities; and (3) labor movements to the new sector, neglecting the old ones.

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• insight to the bone 10 years ago

  Pepeni has surrounded himself with political careerists and opportunists with no integrity or moral back bone talk less of true commitment to the welfare of the people they are supposed to serve.the so called BNI told us it w ...
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  Pepeni has surrounded himself with political careerists and opportunists with no integrity or moral back bone talk less of true commitment to the welfare of the people they are supposed to serve.the so called BNI told us it was unnecessary to investigate the death of a sitting president but spends time investigating a picture or is the purpose rather political intimidation ? if so let them be reminded the Hague war crimes court will be their end . their actions gives credibility to the picture and proves its true so they are worried how someone could get so close and take that snap shot . we are definitely on a roller-coaster to war as patience has been worn thin and corruption totally soaked all sections of society. it would be much better the country is split up so all these wonderful people the ndc presents to us can be taken eg king jj , tsikata and co rule the volta and greater Accra , pepeni , pv obeng , bagbin and co rule northern and we will dash then sekou and the brong ahafo region with nketia.we would be happy for them that all these incredible idiots rule them forever. Long live the republic of Akan

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• American 10 years ago

  As a corollary to (1): oil becomes the primary source of government taxation because it's the easiest tax to collect (and the easiest for corrupted officials to embezzle as a personal asset). As a corollary to (3): oil infras ...
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  As a corollary to (1): oil becomes the primary source of government taxation because it's the easiest tax to collect (and the easiest for corrupted officials to embezzle as a personal asset). As a corollary to (3): oil infrastructure requires little labor to maintain after it is built, so it doesn't spur local employment either directly or indirectly.

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• Kwaku 10 years ago

  Don't ever trust this president,he never believes what he says.Was he not among the govt delegation that has used our oil and gas to contract the Chinese and STI loans?Everything oil and gas no focus.

  Don't ever trust this president,he never believes what he says.Was he not among the govt delegation that has used our oil and gas to contract the Chinese and STI loans?Everything oil and gas no focus.

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• Bobbi 10 years ago

  Mr Prez, I fear u are the Dutch Disease making us continue to mark time. given millions for Guinea fowl production without clear ideas about what is expected from it is dutch disease indeed!

  Mr Prez, I fear u are the Dutch Disease making us continue to mark time. given millions for Guinea fowl production without clear ideas about what is expected from it is dutch disease indeed!

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

  "Necessity is the mother of invention." -Plato
  While the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 created one impetus to find another form of transportation, over a century later we find ourselves in a similar situation with the ca ...
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  "Necessity is the mother of invention." -Plato
  While the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 created one impetus to find another form of transportation, over a century later we find ourselves in a similar situation with the car.
  Runoff from oil and exhaust contribute to 13 percent of all river contamination and some scientists predict that with current oil production levels, the finite resource that fuels
  our cars could be depleted by 2055.
  These are chemical companies that make the lithium carbonate. (the producers of lithium)
  Its lithium-brine reserves. lithium carbonate equivalen (LCE) production. The real drivers of growth are lithium-ion batteries.
  FOLKS,JUST GOOGLE THIS: The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894. THEN U WILL KNOW WHY THE CHINESE ARE IN GH DOING GALAMSAY. BYE BYE TO OIL BY 2055.
  electric vehicles are an option, but lithium-ion batteries also serve other technologies, such as hybrid-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles.
  Pure electric vehicle batteries can be plugged into a home's electricity for charging; batteries for hybrid-electric vehicles can also be used while the engine is running.
  So it is not just an external source of electricity. We have also to consider that automakers are researching other technologies as well, and they have made important progress
  on the efficiency of internal combustion engines, for example. I believe that in the future we will see a mix of different technologies coexisting.
  Yes, you have to generate the electricity, but if you consider the impact of CO2 emissions, you will conclude that electric vehicles are the best option compared with other current-available technologies.
  GH IMPORTS PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING FROM CHINA. EVERYTHING FROM RICE, CHICKEN, UNDEWEAR TO EVEN TOOTHPICKS IS IMPORTED FROM CHINA...
  Argentina’s president has announced increases of as much as 35 percent in cash handouts to the poor, students, pregnant women and retirees.
  President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said the programs also will reach nearly 700,000 more children, expanding the social safety net and encouraging consumer spending this election year. She said the total cost of the subsidies would grow $7.8 billion a year.
  GH MUST FIND A SOLUTION TO THESE PRESSING ISSUES: high level corruption, CITIZEN IDENTIFICATION, insecurity, unemployment, LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE and infrastructure decay as the major problems confronting africa's development.
  GO TO MAHAMA BANK IN USA,HE HAS 170MILLIONS DOLLAS IN HIS ACCOUNT. HE ALSO USED GHMONEY TO BUY JET.
  IN 2010 I WENT TO HIS BROTHER IBRAHIM'S HOUSE. BENTLEYS, RANGE ROVER...EEIII

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• Nii Lartey Nartey 10 years ago

  Mahama's Frane visit was not on behalf ot the country or state recognized but private to witness the first official homosexual marriage (marriage between two men)in France.
  
  Untill this guinea fowl immoral bisexual is kicke ...
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  Mahama's Frane visit was not on behalf ot the country or state recognized but private to witness the first official homosexual marriage (marriage between two men)in France.
  
  Untill this guinea fowl immoral bisexual is kicked out from the Presedency, Ghana will never see any progress or achieve anything as the nation is brought under God's curse.
  
  Can't the buffoonery so called foorsoldiers see that the country has become like a home with no father in control and a dead place where nothing works right?
  
  Take for instance the despicable on and off electric power issue. Mahama, the suppose President, promised the entire nation that the horrible doomsor-doomsor will end by the end of April. The EEC came out to refute that. We are at the end of May and we are still told to expert more doomsor-doomsor.
  
  Honestly who is in charge of this once noble and peacefully enjoyable country? the EEC or the President?
  
  Just imagine when the whole world is turning scientific with modern technology, this unscrupulous stinky corrupt criminal Mahama led NDC government's national priority for our youth is unbelievably a guinea fowl project, hair dressing and taxi cab driving with huge sate budget that just went straight into a cronies bank account.
  
  Are we human beings with feelings or become just 25 million baboon idiots?
  
  If we want any change for national progress, then we as people have to proactively react now for positive action!!!

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• Koffi 10 years ago

  TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT COCOA , THAT IS NOT WHAT WE ARE GETTING FROM THE MARKET.

  TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT COCOA , THAT IS NOT WHAT WE ARE GETTING FROM THE MARKET.

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