Dr Bawumia speaks on ailing economy tomorrow

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PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

NKWASEAFO BI NTI GHANA IS SICK!!! THE CEDI HAS ALREADY DIVED DEEP DOWN!!!!!!!------ WE NEED NANA'S WISDOM. HIS LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME AND L ...
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NKWASEAFO BI NTI GHANA IS SICK!!! THE CEDI HAS ALREADY DIVED DEEP DOWN!!!!!!!------ WE NEED NANA'S WISDOM. HIS LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME AND LIBERATE US FROM OUR ECONOMIC OPPRESSORS. WE CAN'T PUT OUR TRUST IN THESE YOUNG NDC THIEVES (WITH NO WORK RECORD) WHO WANT TO LIVE LIKE KINGS OVERNIGHT, OWNING JETS, BIG MANSIONS, BANKS, ROLLS ROYCE, DATING MODELS ETC. AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR. BEING A PRESIDENT REQUIRES THE USE OF BRAIN NOT BRAWN. A PRESIDENT DOES NOT "THROW" PICK AXE!!! WHO CAN DO THE JOB BETTER THAN NANA, AT THIS TIME IN OUR HISTORY, WHERE GREEDY CORRUPT , SHARP TEETH ROTTEN PLANK NDC SMALL BOYS, PARADING AS POLITICIANS, HAVE PLUNDERED OUR RESOURCES TO THE BONE, THAT OUR OIL ECONOMY INHERITED FROM THE GREAT KUFFOUR HAS HAD NO IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF THE ORDINARY CITIZENS OF OUR COUNTRY???? LONG LIVE GHANA!! LONG LIVE NANA ADDO. MORE GREASE TO YOUR ELBOWS!! EVERY THIEF IN GHANA, TODAY, IS SCARED OF BOLD AND MIGHTY NANA ADDO. NANA IS CLEAN !! CLEAN TO THE BONE!!!
The 10 years ago

This time round will the NDC burry their arrogance and learn something from the man's lecture and work with it. The arrogance of the NDC is killing us all. When the economy goes bad it is all Ghanaians who suffer not only tho ...
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This time round will the NDC burry their arrogance and learn something from the man's lecture and work with it. The arrogance of the NDC is killing us all. When the economy goes bad it is all Ghanaians who suffer not only those managing the economy, what criticism or suggestion that comes should be taken in good faith and worked on, but not to unleash the NDC nonentities to insult the facilitators.
KINGSTON TOWN 10 years ago

Empty coconut heads like Fiifi Kwertey will always blow hot air around. No wonder we are all in this shit together. We need a saviour to rescue us from these fools!

Empty coconut heads like Fiifi Kwertey will always blow hot air around. No wonder we are all in this shit together. We need a saviour to rescue us from these fools!
lucy 10 years ago

This midget has come to use our brother again.Bawumia wake up from ur long sleep.He killed ur brother Aliu Mahama,u wil be the next.Northners cant rule in that party.If he respected u ,he would not have used the word Y3n Akan ...
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This midget has come to use our brother again.Bawumia wake up from ur long sleep.He killed ur brother Aliu Mahama,u wil be the next.Northners cant rule in that party.If he respected u ,he would not have used the word Y3n Akanfua...n all that
Krikri,, 10 years ago

Bawumia I am surprised you are refusing to think,like your late father, who used his brains and NDC support to educate you in foreign lands. I am also surprised you do not see that the tribalists and cocaine barons are only u ...
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Bawumia I am surprised you are refusing to think,like your late father, who used his brains and NDC support to educate you in foreign lands. I am also surprised you do not see that the tribalists and cocaine barons are only using you to achieve their own ambitions - TO LOOT GA/GOVT LANDS AND NATIONAL ASSETS. Tomorrow, please tell us all about what your termed "Redenomination"; tell us why you declared C10,000.00 is C1.00; Tell us how many time you re-cycled the old currencies and filled your personal accounts with the proceeds; yes, tell us why Roko Frempong was wickedly and spinelessly murdered by the elephants
Apraku 10 years ago

Stupid! Stupid! comments below the belt, no intelligence in your comments.

Stupid! Stupid! comments below the belt, no intelligence in your comments.
Kay 10 years ago

Don't blame him that is what he has been taught and know,his strength is insults.

Don't blame him that is what he has been taught and know,his strength is insults.
Krikri,, 10 years ago

Anybody talks the truth and you start insulting him, why?

Anybody talks the truth and you start insulting him, why?
Future Judge 10 years ago

Dr Bawamia has very good training that could benefit his country immensely but has found himself pinned to disoriented politicians and at the end of the day, unfortunately, he would make no impact to his country's development ...
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Dr Bawamia has very good training that could benefit his country immensely but has found himself pinned to disoriented politicians and at the end of the day, unfortunately, he would make no impact to his country's development. Because lectures and speeches have never built nations.

These kind of things are mere academic exercises that only showcase knowledge which at best is fallow. Find job in the system and contribute your best to the society because you seem to attach your self to some kind of arrogant group where you don't actually belong and is hurting you.

You are growing,don't align yourself to people who have smeared themselves already with arrogance and drugs stigma. Find a job with the state and contribute positively and be a role model than following politics in the wrong direction. A word to the wise is enough.
kk 10 years ago

Ghanaians can see and feel the redenomination and devaluation of the cedis in their pocket and lives. If that was a good policy, why did npp government wait to do that at the end of their reign? The npp government withcrimina ...
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Ghanaians can see and feel the redenomination and devaluation of the cedis in their pocket and lives. If that was a good policy, why did npp government wait to do that at the end of their reign? The npp government withcriminal minds like this guy, have dug ghana into a bottomless pit fortheir greedy and rekless agenda. This guy should arrested and charge with econmic damages that he caused Ghana. Part ofhisdamage is what we see as the free fall of the cedis. Ghanaians are not fools. One day you pay for the harm and damages that you course the innocent people of Ghana.
kankani 10 years ago

Bawumia u think ur parents and whole family are stupid to be NDC?If the northerners are mmua,then Bawumia is the the biggest of all the Mmua(animals)

Bawumia u think ur parents and whole family are stupid to be NDC?If the northerners are mmua,then Bawumia is the the biggest of all the Mmua(animals)
Kwamina 10 years ago

We all know the problem with the cedi. Excessive imports, overbloated pubmic service and wastage. These issues were prevalent in the last NPP regime.

Let us hear what you would do different to tackle these 3 major issues a ...
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We all know the problem with the cedi. Excessive imports, overbloated pubmic service and wastage. These issues were prevalent in the last NPP regime.

Let us hear what you would do different to tackle these 3 major issues and stop regurgitating stuff that even a JSS pupil knows.

Ghanaian politicians are all the same. Bunch of useless academicians with no substance
Paa 10 years ago

Stop your stupid hatred of academics. Higher education is meant to produce creative thinkers, not entrepreneurs. In your ignorance, you attribute all the problems we have in this country to academic theories. But while "acade ...
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Stop your stupid hatred of academics. Higher education is meant to produce creative thinkers, not entrepreneurs. In your ignorance, you attribute all the problems we have in this country to academic theories. But while "academic theories" are not enough, they provide systematic tools to analysing the many faces of a problem, forecasting future events and finding appropriating solutions.

Do you realise that while the great IT inventors in the US may be university drop-outs, they hire the best-trained engineers, even anthropologists, to provide knowledge and innovation for business expansion.

In contrast, instead of deploying the knowledge and managerial talents of the highly-educated, a less-educated Ghanaian starts a small company, makes small money, thinks he has arrived without much education, and starts hating on and disrespecting academics. Yet, look at the few successful Ghanaian companies that are going global. They all employ highly-educated people.

Finally, it's academic theories that allowed Western governments and multinationals to dominate the world for so long. And, contrary to what you think, it's the NDC's anti-intellectualism that's creating further mess for the economy.
Paa 10 years ago

Using his academic theories, Bawumia warned NDC that the macro-economic indicators they were putting out could not be consistent with the general operation of the market and that soon they would be exposed. Did this not happe ...
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Using his academic theories, Bawumia warned NDC that the macro-economic indicators they were putting out could not be consistent with the general operation of the market and that soon they would be exposed. Did this not happen?
Alex Boatang 10 years ago

I tell you ,he fit the post as presedent
N.P.P should give him a chance.He is
likeable as compare to Nana

I tell you ,he fit the post as presedent
N.P.P should give him a chance.He is
likeable as compare to Nana
Tommy 10 years ago

May GOD bless BAWUMIA'S for his contribution to Ghanaian economy!

May GOD bless BAWUMIA'S for his contribution to Ghanaian economy!
The mask 10 years ago

The university of Ghana remains the primary source of economists and political thought in Ghana. That Ghana should be in this state of affairs is reflective of the failures of Legon.

The premier university of Ghana - The U ...
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The university of Ghana remains the primary source of economists and political thought in Ghana. That Ghana should be in this state of affairs is reflective of the failures of Legon.

The premier university of Ghana - The University of Ghana Legon sadly does not appear in the top
500 universities on earth. This must be corrected immediately. The university in order to achieve this must improve:
1) Faculty student ratio
2) The number of research projects it carries out
3) The test scores of its entry class (internationally normalised)
4) Employers' review of performance of its graduates (local and abroad)
5) Peer review by other universities
babana 10 years ago

God bless you,all you predictions turned out to be through.

God bless you,all you predictions turned out to be through.
sara davids-Rotterdam 10 years ago

THIS IS OUR FUTURE PRESIDENT IF YOU LIKE HIM OR NOT.NANA AND DR.BAWUMIA COMING SOON TO SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM SINKING ON THE HIGH SEA.

THIS IS OUR FUTURE PRESIDENT IF YOU LIKE HIM OR NOT.NANA AND DR.BAWUMIA COMING SOON TO SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM SINKING ON THE HIGH SEA.
Repugnant. 10 years ago

He is sick with epilepsy. So much for clever young "You and i were not there disingenuous president."

Let him behave like a poll parrot, who cares? This is your future not mine.

He is sick with epilepsy. So much for clever young "You and i were not there disingenuous president."

Let him behave like a poll parrot, who cares? This is your future not mine.
seneior citizen. Braunschweig Germany 10 years ago

This NPP man, Dr Mohammed Bawumiah is a firebrand economist in Ghana and that was the reason why Nana Akuffo Addo candidly spotted him to be in the limelight of Ghanas political economy to serve as a vice presidential candid ...
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This NPP man, Dr Mohammed Bawumiah is a firebrand economist in Ghana and that was the reason why Nana Akuffo Addo candidly spotted him to be in the limelight of Ghanas political economy to serve as a vice presidential candidate for the largest Opposition party ready to take the mantel of political leadership in the nearest future lift the country out of economic woes .For sure as I have been predicting,he would become president in Ghana in a forseeable future.Ghanaians should not use the other Phd to mudslinge him.A prophet is not recognised in his home town says the Holy Bible.
Paa 10 years ago

Yours is a mistaken expectation. A great intellectual doesn't necessarily make a competent leader. The problem in this country is that we don't know the value of, and how to use, our intellectuals. Leadership sometimes requir ...
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Yours is a mistaken expectation. A great intellectual doesn't necessarily make a competent leader. The problem in this country is that we don't know the value of, and how to use, our intellectuals. Leadership sometimes requires quick action. In contrast, intellectuals turn to be slow to act and act only after seriously pondering over a matter to understand its ramifications. Intellectuals can help government and business leaders by simulating and analysing future situations and providing alternative courses of action given any situation.
NANA APINTOHENE OF OBURONIKROM 10 years ago

The realisation of the leadership ambitions of some NPPIANS, may yet be possible but highly unlikely. Bawumia's humility, poise, conduct and positive contributions to the NPP party and the country by his clearest examples so ...
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The realisation of the leadership ambitions of some NPPIANS, may yet be possible but highly unlikely. Bawumia's humility, poise, conduct and positive contributions to the NPP party and the country by his clearest examples so far, put him in a pole position for any future leadership contest. He ranks far ahead of all the "GREAT PRETENDERS" and others; whose actions, inactions and utterances tend to undermine confidence in the authenticity of their commitment to the NPP course. The Nana Addo/Bawumia Ticket is the best and Dr. Bawumia though a brilliant economist, is carefully understudying Nana Addo, whose "MR CLEAN track record in contemporary Ghanaian politics, is undeniably worthy of emulation. I believe together they are reviewing some of the more promising strategies for 2016 for the good of Ghana. As exemplified by his contributions at the Supreme Court and the resulting "DARLING STATUS" achieved by his incredible performance and wit, he has already assumed a place ahead of anymore distant relatives of the NPP family. The extraordinary intervention of the SC Petition has rightly displaced anybody who stubbornly regards himself/herself as heir/heiress apparent to Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo Addo. Dr. Bawumia in the view of his absolute goodness, gentleness, patience and intellectual acumen is surely a future president God willing. MAY GOD BLESS GHANA OUR MOTHERLAND.
GBEVU 10 years ago

YOU HAVE WORRIED THIS ECONOMY A LOT AFTER 8 MONTHS IN COURT. SAVE YOUR TREACHEROUS LECTURE FOR AS TO MOVE ON. OTHERWISE I EXPECT U TO TALK ABOUT UR BEHAVIOR DURING UR CANNING COURT CASE, I HOPE U WILL NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THAT.

YOU HAVE WORRIED THIS ECONOMY A LOT AFTER 8 MONTHS IN COURT. SAVE YOUR TREACHEROUS LECTURE FOR AS TO MOVE ON. OTHERWISE I EXPECT U TO TALK ABOUT UR BEHAVIOR DURING UR CANNING COURT CASE, I HOPE U WILL NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THAT.
Kaakyire 10 years ago

Go Doc Go
let the world know the cheat and deceit engulfing the economy and how we can get out of this quagmire of confusuin and maladministration

Go Doc Go
let the world know the cheat and deceit engulfing the economy and how we can get out of this quagmire of confusuin and maladministration
DK 10 years ago

You need not be on the presidential seat before suggesting alternative solution. Criticising always without any concrate alternative will not help us Dr. We are now decerning, devil we know...

You need not be on the presidential seat before suggesting alternative solution. Criticising always without any concrate alternative will not help us Dr. We are now decerning, devil we know...
Nzema K 10 years ago

So now Otabil is collecting money from poor charcoal sellers, use it to build university, charge full user fee such that children of these poor parents cannot afford and finally turn the Uni into an organ of NPP where platefo ...
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So now Otabil is collecting money from poor charcoal sellers, use it to build university, charge full user fee such that children of these poor parents cannot afford and finally turn the Uni into an organ of NPP where plateforms are created for idiots like Bawumia to just go and personally attack the president instead of offering economic solutions
Ken 10 years ago

"The former Deputy Governor of Bank of Ghana is regarded as one of Ghana’s finest economists..."

Who regards him as such? These loose statements.....opinions pushed as facts....They keep saying this man is one of Ghana' ...
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"The former Deputy Governor of Bank of Ghana is regarded as one of Ghana’s finest economists..."

Who regards him as such? These loose statements.....opinions pushed as facts....They keep saying this man is one of Ghana's finest economists.....If only someone will be willing to rank Ghanaian economists where we will get to know this man will not fall even within Ghana's BEST 100 Economists, we will keep hearing this sort of things.....

Was this man not at the Bank of Ghana before? What was his track record.....And how come he is being elevated above his bosses who have much more experience.....? Because of politics? If it is about his academic degrees, there are 1000s of Ghanaians out there with impeccable TERMINAL degrees in Economics from more prestigious institutions.....Is it because they are not into politics? Please give us a break 'wai'
Tibaa 10 years ago

I know a number of colleagues with impeccable degrees in economics living a quite life in the private sector. Is it because they ae not in politics they are not among the "finest?"

For economics to work in favor of the ma ...
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I know a number of colleagues with impeccable degrees in economics living a quite life in the private sector. Is it because they ae not in politics they are not among the "finest?"

For economics to work in favor of the majority of the people, it must be refected through the constraints of politics. That is the reason why I would prefer political-economists to both untrammeled "economists" and unfettered "political scientists."

Political economists are able to temper unfetterd neoclassical economics with the demands of political rationality in order to maximize outputs to the benefit of the people.

Bawumia, in his pristine western neo-classical economic calculations will be nothing but a mouthpiece of the IMF's punishing economic prescriptions.
south 10 years ago

This guy is absolutely useless, don't want the presidency? Fight for presidency not second hand. Why old man Akuffo Addo want to be president all cost while's Bawumih is the right person.

This guy is absolutely useless, don't want the presidency? Fight for presidency not second hand. Why old man Akuffo Addo want to be president all cost while's Bawumih is the right person.
Sea-Lighter 10 years ago

GOOD AND BEST MAN FOR NPP

GOOD AND BEST MAN FOR NPP
south 10 years ago

A whole ph economist always second hand. Fight for presidency, and stop your nonsense.

A whole ph economist always second hand. Fight for presidency, and stop your nonsense.
GHANAIAN 10 years ago

Bawumia and NPP are a lot wiser than you may think.

Bawumia as Nana's Vice, will gain a lot of Political experience, ready to succeed Nana Akuffo Addo, in 2024/5.

Bawumia and NPP are a lot wiser than you may think.

Bawumia as Nana's Vice, will gain a lot of Political experience, ready to succeed Nana Akuffo Addo, in 2024/5.
GHANAIAN 10 years ago

No doubt, Seth Tekper and a novice, like Fiifi Kwetey, will take notes to try and make it their own.

If Bawumia were an NDC man, the NDC would advise him not to give the Lecture,in case the NPP stole the idea; but Bawumia ...
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No doubt, Seth Tekper and a novice, like Fiifi Kwetey, will take notes to try and make it their own.

If Bawumia were an NDC man, the NDC would advise him not to give the Lecture,in case the NPP stole the idea; but Bawumia loves his Country and wants to help.

I hope the Government will take note, this time.
Iwan 10 years ago

No, no, no, nomore acomfirm speach., we want solutions. NPP time the cedi fell aaaaaaa we removed four zeros. How many zeros does he want us to remove this time?

No, no, no, nomore acomfirm speach., we want solutions. NPP time the cedi fell aaaaaaa we removed four zeros. How many zeros does he want us to remove this time?
Simingue 10 years ago

Under what capacity is Bawumia is going to speak on, could it be the former running mate for the twice defeated NPP candidate? or as what, someone need to tell me. You have allowed your beautiful carrier to be destroyed by fo ...
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Under what capacity is Bawumia is going to speak on, could it be the former running mate for the twice defeated NPP candidate? or as what, someone need to tell me. You have allowed your beautiful carrier to be destroyed by following the bigots and tribalist NPP which will not help you in anyway. I would rather advice you to go out there to look for job rather than throwing tantrums into the air in the name trying to make yourself popular which you are not
Ofa NICO 10 years ago

These people will not listen oo.
Always on propaganda front.MAY GOD HELP MOTHER GHANA

These people will not listen oo.
Always on propaganda front.MAY GOD HELP MOTHER GHANA
ben 10 years ago

now npp otabil has given u his school,hmmm npp central university i hope u will come out with a solution tomorrow

now npp otabil has given u his school,hmmm npp central university i hope u will come out with a solution tomorrow
Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

Anyone who believes Dr. Bawumia has anything substantive to provide in his yapping session tomorrow is likely to buy into Ghana-made bull. Dr. Bawumia and other Ghanaians claiming to be economists do know that in the US, Cana ...
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Anyone who believes Dr. Bawumia has anything substantive to provide in his yapping session tomorrow is likely to buy into Ghana-made bull. Dr. Bawumia and other Ghanaians claiming to be economists do know that in the US, Canada and Western European nations, economic and monetary policies of the respective national governments are set by economic bodies independent of the ruling governments of the time/day. Ghana's economy is suffering because it has operated under a rather shaky quicksand foundation for years. For NPP loyalists, Ghana was in economic heaven during Kufour’s era; they forget most of our outstanding debts were written off by our donors even as we were put under economic supervision of world organizations as if Ghana was a dependent childish nation. As a beggar nation, therefore, we did not have to pay debts that other governments would have otherwise had to pay. The freed-up money is what Kufour used to shore-up his future unfunded mandates which became albatross around the necks of proceeding governments.
Economic foundations matter and the ills of our poor and unstable economic foundation will continue irrespective of temporary fixes. The NPP of today can promise Ghanaians of a wonderful Ghana all they want but unless and until the foundations of Ghana's economy is on solid footing we will be engaged in economic crap shoot or voodoo economics each election cycle forward. Those who have heard of only lower taxation spares economic growth will repeat the same crap in Ghana even as they fail to realize that the inflow of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) mostly become a reality when there is existence of some reasonable infrastructure for production based businesses to grow. For example would a car manufacturer, a farm processing plant or data processing company move into Ghana where labor is cheap? No because we do not have reliable safe roads, reliable and uninterrupted supply of electricity, drinking pipe-borne water system and the robust telecommunications network to deal with the bandwidth of data that can handle traffic on our existing system by Vodafone and others. The land minerals resources that help keep the value of Ghana’s currency up is no longer ours and or going up in value like they used to be.
What good does the prices of diamond, gold, oil, gas and other mined minerals and natural resources on the global economic market do for Ghana anyway? As a nation we do not own even 30% of these commodities anyway. So the full weight of financial or monetary returns goes to the foreign companies who own every last one of our God-given golden eggs as we collect nickels. Our lack of development and the value of our money is just an allusion because if the markets on those commodities are high but the government is not getting enough benefits, national developments suffer even as we pretend the value of our currency is high. The question we should be asking is who benefits the most from a higher cedi value if there is no free floating liquid cash on the Ghanaian market and are proportional investments in Ghana from all the realized income? All the crap both NPP and NDC offer during election is band aid that petty businesses can make quick bucks but those are not long lasting economic activities. Dr. Bawumia is just a modern day pied-piper leading unsophisticated Ghanaians who worship PhD titles to their demise.
I challenge people to read the annual financial statements of Vodafone and of the goldmines, oil and gas owners and tell where the profits are going relative to investments in Ghana.
Kofi Kwadjo 10 years ago

No 6th Form economics please. We talking not of economics or finance but the world now talks about POLITICAL ECONOMICS! Is this too much for you Dr Bawumia? Oh, don't apply the 'PINK SHEET' statistic Ghana is too advanced for ...
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No 6th Form economics please. We talking not of economics or finance but the world now talks about POLITICAL ECONOMICS! Is this too much for you Dr Bawumia? Oh, don't apply the 'PINK SHEET' statistic Ghana is too advanced for and fed up to the net for your 8 months 'pint sheet', infantile politics and your unintelligent explanation of your own statistical interpretations. But have a go, do a good research for the challenge. We are watching and will assess you.
Antiochus - London 10 years ago

All the incompetent and visionless economic team within the NDC govt should attend this lecture and absorb some tips to salvage the ailing economy.

All the incompetent and visionless economic team within the NDC govt should attend this lecture and absorb some tips to salvage the ailing economy.

Dr Bawumia speaks on ailing economy tomorrow

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