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Ghana´s debt stock: 'Freeze some dev´t projects' – Economist

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  • Zangina 8 years ago

    The government has concentrated its efforts in borrowing to build prestige projects without thinking about the social aspects. The people will not be able to get the fuel to drive on these interchanges, can't use the hospital ...
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  • Amega 8 years ago

    Not at this campaign year. Mahama and his NDC know nothing and will unerstand nothing will borrow to do shody projects to woo voters, and after elections turn round to tell Ghanaians ALL THE MEAT HAS BEEN EATEN leaving only B ...
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  • Marcus, Tema 8 years ago

    Please tell us which projects must be frozen. Mahama is incompetent and has stolen all our moneys and has nothing to show for it. Are you an economist or a party propagandist?

  • OKOE 8 years ago

    THE ECONOMIST IS RIGHT. WE ALL KNOW THAT GOVERNMENTS AND POLITICIANS, IN ORDER TO PROPAGATE THEIR ACHIEVEMENT, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT BORROW MORE IN ORDER TO PROVE THEIR PERFORMANCES RATHER THAN ALLOWING THE COUNTRY TO LIVE WITH ...
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  • Keynes 8 years ago

    China's debt stock is 240% of GDP, and our nation's looters are ambitious.

  • pk 8 years ago

    All the development is happening because of the infrastructural deficit. Numerous advantages though particularly providing both skilled and unskilled employment. They bear fruit. Shoddy work is not the government's fault but ...
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  • Nii 8 years ago

    Freeze on development projects? Why this fixation about debts? Which country's doors had been locked because of debt?
    At what cost will those projects be in the future?
    Don't the Ghanaian deserve an enhanced standard of li ...
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  • Kofi Dramatic 8 years ago

    This goes to show how simplistic and narrow minded you are. I don't blame you because your father is a dog so no one can reason with you

  • Bob 8 years ago

    Stop wasting your time with these academic arguments. As a senior lecturer at Legon, you don't know how much Ghana's debt is? So what kind of research do you people do at that university? You don't keep records of such things ...
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  • Sly 8 years ago

    Our negotiators lack of negotiatives skills. No wonder.

  • pk 8 years ago

    Never in the annals of Ghana's history except perhaps in the immediate post independence period has infrastructural development being on such a scale. Even so transportation is not up to scratch. Rail transport virtually non ...
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  • SAY IT AS IT IS 8 years ago

    This is one of the foolish talks i have heard for sometime now. Do you mean what is started must be frozen?

  • EZEKIEL 8 years ago

    Maybe it is MORE INTELLIGENT to advice that NO NEW PROJECTS be started UNTIL those you've listed....IF that's ALL... are completed!!!!!
    You don't just STOP in mid-section.!!!
    When you have money to CONTINUE , the projects m ...
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  • Obiara 8 years ago

    The NPP strategy is in full force. DR. Amoako Baah Head of Political Science, UST
    DR Robert Darko Economist University of Ghana
    Ghanaians are not persuaded by folks like these who display their shallowness by twisting fact ...
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  • Senior citizen - Germany 8 years ago

    The NDC government led by Mr Mahama is an over-ambitious one ever come to power in the history of our Nation, but the fact is written black and white on the red wall that,President Mahama and his retinues are doing this,osten ...
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