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Domestication, antidote to Ghana’s dollarised economy: GCPP Leader

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  • cha 10 years ago

    Mahama must go

  • kb 10 years ago

    We want to come to power by all means. We get the power. Then we want to stay in power, so we bend the rules, we don't act (Sodom & Gomorrah). After winning the elections we turn on the propaganda to win the next elections in ...
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  • stonepillow 10 years ago

    Walk into any super-market and count the made-in-Ghana products. You can even see it on the Streets: apples, grape fruit, don Simon, ...

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    Shame unto that tribal bigots kofi nyaku in Holland for criticizing Ghanaians , especially the NDC sympathizers on his akan's npp radio show in abroad to certified his akan's npp party. We can listen to u from far here in Gha ...
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  • Cape Coast 10 years ago

    you are still living in fools paradise! Wake up and face realities!

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    HOW DO YOU MAKE GH MORE ECONOMICALLY COMPETITIVE, U ASK?
    A/upgrade and improve infrastructure: road systems,airports, ports, the entire infrastructure, and IT infrastructure IN GH IS LAGGING. IMAGINE THE JOBS THIS WILL CREAT ...
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  • Odikr@ 10 years ago

    The Suggestion of Domestication is desirable.
    It is our only way out,coupled with adding value to our primary resources,seafood,fruit and vegetables...excetera excetera

  • Nii Akwei 10 years ago

    Find a better word to describe your agenda.

  • nii 10 years ago

    Yes , Yes yES, WE STILL HAVE some INTELLIGENT PEOPLE AROUND.tHAT IS THE ONLY WAY OUT. THIS IS SO SIMPLE AND IT WILL WORK.

  • Mans, London 10 years ago

    There has always been this feeling that the country's economy is not well managed. When you are lax, careless, and reckless and lack commitment to qualitative change, you tend to adopt pragmatic measures to please when in act ...
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  • Odikr@ 10 years ago

    Perhaps,domestic tourism should be promoted more often.
    Kakum canopy walk.
    Mole safari
    Paga crocodile lagoo
    Nzulezi village on stilts
    Lake Bosomtwi
    Wli waterfalls

  • HAZOR 10 years ago

    First before i write my opinion,Why has parliament failed to investigate and interrogate Mahama Ayariga on the stolen tractors and US$44million Altas textbooks which he import without meeting Ghana Education standard.Yes, I a ...
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  • Odikr@ 10 years ago

    Wow ,your depth of feeling on this issue is amazing.
    How come it has taken you this long?

  • HAZOR 10 years ago

    First of all,I depend on locals for information.Secondly,I don't write our of ignorant and prejudice.It is not all articles or news that write my comment and contribute to.I only write on facts and deception and reality.I thi ...
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  • Johnny USA 10 years ago

    THANK YOU DOMESTICATION FAMILY.YOU ARE RIGHT.

  • William Sorkpor, USA 10 years ago

    The problems facing our country are global political economics in nature. A typical example is given by the Quantitative Easing policy of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

    Our problems manifest the extent to which we are failing ...
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  • Odikr@ 10 years ago

    Pragmatic solutions are inherently simple commonsense approaches.
    No need to complicate.

  • William Sorkpor, USA 10 years ago

    You don't need me to tell you that, the Ghana economy is not a Mom and Pap shop.

    We cannot grow and expand it by buying a couple of freezers to store fish, mangoes, oranges, plantains, etc.

    Where is the market for th ...
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  • Odikr@ 10 years ago

    Perishablles are flown into the UK from Newzealand and Austalia.
    Quality not Quantity is the major driver.

  • Sankofa 10 years ago

    Yes, we must rally behind the gov't and support what it is doing to develop our economy.

    Dr Lartey's solution is not simplistic. He is actually right. We must export more than we import. This is the way to halt the run on ...
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  • Raa 10 years ago

    Ban importation of finished goods and ask everyone to start manufacturing. Instead help them build the supply chain needed.

  • JOE 10 years ago

    THIS IS NOT NEW AND GHANAIAN LEADERS ESPECIALLY THE NPP, NDC ARE IMPORTERS OF FOREIGN PRODUCTS EVEN GABBAGE WHICH HAVE RESULTED IN A LOT OF CANCER DISEASES IN GHANA. SOUTH AFRICA CURRENCY DECLINE IS AS A RESULT OF LABOUR, FAL ...
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  • Kalahariman 10 years ago

    The failures of NPP in implementing HIPC policies during their regime is responsible for the economy chaos in Ghana today.

    During tenure of NPP under President Kufour, he declared Ghana an HIPC country in 2001 to 2008. Th ...
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  • Kalahariman 10 years ago

    HIPC fund went to enrich the Kufour family. The figures are there to prove it.

  • Joe 10 years ago

    THAT IS THE BASIC TRUTH WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO BORROW AND MAKE NOISE OURS IS TO PRODUCE WHAT WE WILL EAT AND EAT WHAT WE PRODUCE TOO MUCH WE KNOW EVEN THE OPPOSITION ARE NOT GOING TO DO BETTER SO YOU HAVE SAID THE FACT

  • Kalahariman 10 years ago

    We don't produce wheat but our taste for bread made out of wheat is so high that we import over a billion dollar worth of wheat yearly. Bread is not only made out of wheat. We can also made bread out potatoes. In the USA is c ...
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  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 10 years ago

    Hei Kalahariman, I like your input but you failed to know that without bread flour, there is no way you can make and get the best potato bread. You can google and find the recipe to make good potato bread. E&OE.

  • TUTULAPATO 10 years ago

    ALL THESE IMMIGRANTS IN US SLUMS BROOKLYN, BRONX, NEW JERSEY, PHILLY SHOULD JUST SHUP UP AND DO YOUR MENIAL JOBS. YOU GUYS SEEM TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HOW THE NATION SHOULD MOVE FORWARD, WHY DON'T YOU COME HOME TO IMPLEMENT ...
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  • bobostone 10 years ago

    Getting a loan facility from the bank to run a 100-acre palm oil plantation project in my village (Huni Valley, Western Region), which could have created employment for the rural folks could not materialize. Our leaders do no ...
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  • ISAAC OFORI AGYEMANG 10 years ago

    Well said Lartey,but remember those agro-based export will never trim down the large deficit we have. Our taste for foreign goods have grown over the past decades. thousands of Ghanaians want to ride in latest Toyota and Merc ...
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  • Layla 10 years ago

    You are missing the context. GH cedi is falling in no small part because of US Fed policy, specifically QE tapering. Bond returns are going up in US, so those investors who pumped money into emerging market currencies like Gh ...
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  • Gyan 10 years ago

    We welcome domestication 2016

  • Gyan 10 years ago

    We welcome domestication 2016