Ghana’s Public Sector: A case of reverse welfare

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• y s 10 years ago

  A good one but those who should implement stand to lose out and will therefore turn a blind eye to the suggestions.

  A good one but those who should implement stand to lose out and will therefore turn a blind eye to the suggestions.

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• KOFI ADU 10 years ago

  .....And more: Scrap the Ghana Education Service. Completely decentralize the service into the Districts. District Directors of Education should be recruited competitively and given 3-year performance based renewable contract ...
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  .....And more: Scrap the Ghana Education Service. Completely decentralize the service into the Districts. District Directors of Education should be recruited competitively and given 3-year performance based renewable contracts. They should report to the assembly not the DCE or District Coordinating Director...It's time we went full decentralization or psuedo- federalism..this over concentration of power in the executive is the bane of our forward match in development as a nation....Ghanaians deserve better!

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• KWAKUD 10 years ago

  AND THE DCE SHOULD ALSO BE RECRUITED COMPETITIVELY AND GIVEN 3 YEAR PERFORMANCE BASED RENEWABLE CONTRACT. THE DCE SHOULD BE A QUALIFIED TECHNOCRAT, NOT A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

  AND THE DCE SHOULD ALSO BE RECRUITED COMPETITIVELY AND GIVEN 3 YEAR PERFORMANCE BASED RENEWABLE CONTRACT. THE DCE SHOULD BE A QUALIFIED TECHNOCRAT, NOT A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

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• ras 10 years ago

  let me help u with the MoFA example. As u rightly said the farmers will not miss it if its gone. 100s of millions of dollars are poured into the department by successive governments on the pretext of improving agricultural pr ...
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  let me help u with the MoFA example. As u rightly said the farmers will not miss it if its gone. 100s of millions of dollars are poured into the department by successive governments on the pretext of improving agricultural production. They dream up complex projects that suck up most of the funding leaving very little to trickle down to the farmers. If these hundreds of millions were given in direct loans to start modern agribusinesses across the country the sector will be transformed within 5 years. But which government will dare touch MOFA, the beast? This is the big question.

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• OZA 10 years ago

  You are right! How many children of cocoa farmers ever got the so-called CMB scholarship? It was always the children of the very rich who could not even know the diference between Cocoa leaf sand contomire, (cocoyam leaf)

  You are right! How many children of cocoa farmers ever got the so-called CMB scholarship? It was always the children of the very rich who could not even know the diference between Cocoa leaf sand contomire, (cocoyam leaf)

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• GREAT NANA ANTWI 10 years ago

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• Kwadjo, London 10 years ago

  Our nation had never been developed and run as sustaining entity. Where is the Auditor General?

  Our nation had never been developed and run as sustaining entity. Where is the Auditor General?

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• KWAKUD 10 years ago

  This article hit the nail dead centre on the head. A bit too 'advanced' for our governments though.

  This article hit the nail dead centre on the head. A bit too 'advanced' for our governments though.

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• Kass 10 years ago

  This author captured all I have personally wanted to pour out of my soul.
  It is just great.We as a country love the model where the STATE is boss. But governments in the developed and developing counties are shedding "power ...
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  This author captured all I have personally wanted to pour out of my soul.
  It is just great.We as a country love the model where the STATE is boss. But governments in the developed and developing counties are shedding "power instead of consolidating it"
  
  There is tooooo much gov't power grabbing. But ALL governments are poor business folk.
  All these government initiatives, though well-meant and well-intended always come up short, and gargantuan monies go down the drain.
  SADA is very well-intended but at the end of the day MOST of the akonfem farmers will hardly see a nudge in their incomes.
  The SADA directors and big shots will accumulate enough cash to retire on, but its impact be zilch.
  
  
  We have to have a way to get power out of the hands of the elite who consistently make such decisions.
  
  Africans are really doomed.

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