By What Measure Did Ghana Grow 500% Under NPP, Dr. Bawumia? (1.0)

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Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor 8 years ago

Prof. Lungu mind you English and stop polluting your readers with nonsense.

Read yourself in your 2nd paragraph. Besides don't forget to use your real Asante name instead of the fake Prof Lungu, since when did you become a ...
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Prof. Lungu mind you English and stop polluting your readers with nonsense.

Read yourself in your 2nd paragraph. Besides don't forget to use your real Asante name instead of the fake Prof Lungu, since when did you become a professor?

Prof Lungu's 2 paragraph:(stinking English)

"In the spirit of Ghana-centeredness, there are areas with straight-forward, pedestrian, political party repercussions we avoid writing about. However, when a politicians makes outrageous claims without regard to truth, commonsense, and respect for the voter, we respond at a time and place of our own choosing."
JOE KOLOLO 8 years ago

Is this Michael J.K. Bokor an impersonator?

Is this Michael J.K. Bokor an impersonator?
Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor 8 years ago

This is me, the real Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor, responding to your concern. Don't mind such stupid dumb dogs. The IP addresses of people using cyberspace are easy to detect to see the difference. Only stupid people new to the In ...
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This is me, the real Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor, responding to your concern. Don't mind such stupid dumb dogs. The IP addresses of people using cyberspace are easy to detect to see the difference. Only stupid people new to the Internet don't know. Disregard this fool. Let's talk later after I've contacted Kommanda.
Kojo T 8 years ago

Dishonest NPP> You fake someone and of course you did not UNDERSTAND the post TWEEA

Dishonest NPP> You fake someone and of course you did not UNDERSTAND the post TWEEA
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

Kojo T,
Them never learn nothin'!

Like the character calling himself "Alhaji Homeboy" at bottom.

We hope he comes back with his IQ and lay it all for everyone to understand, the way he understood Bawumia's tale.

G ...
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Kojo T,
Them never learn nothin'!

Like the character calling himself "Alhaji Homeboy" at bottom.

We hope he comes back with his IQ and lay it all for everyone to understand, the way he understood Bawumia's tale.

Greetings!
Kojo T 8 years ago

Bra keep educating the UNEDUCATED. Knowledge is power and it is the only way we can redeem the country

Bra keep educating the UNEDUCATED. Knowledge is power and it is the only way we can redeem the country
Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor 8 years ago

My friend, I haven't responded to this opinion piece. It is not for me to judge anybody how that person communicates. After all, English isn't set in stone for anybody to use in any fixed manner to communicate.

A monoling ...
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My friend, I haven't responded to this opinion piece. It is not for me to judge anybody how that person communicates. After all, English isn't set in stone for anybody to use in any fixed manner to communicate.

A monolingual native speaker even makes horrible mistakes in using English. Who am I to condemn anybody.

Readers can easily cross-check facts to see the IP address of this imposter (even the spelling of this word isn't set in stone; it could be "impostor" or "imposter") to know that this senseless response isn't mine.

Those dimwits happily using others' names for their mischief in cyberspace are pitiable.

In most cases, they turn out to be ignorant and really stupid NPP buffs who deceive themselves that their personal attacks will silence us, the avowed critics of their useless "Mate Me Ho" cultic cause. They lie bad!!

Intelligent readers can easily check IP addresses to see the difference!!
Deen 8 years ago

In the first place,you must also mind your english before correcting somebody! Read your first sentence! .
Secondly,stop impersonating Dr Bokor because he will never respond to an educating & thought provoking article like t ...
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In the first place,you must also mind your english before correcting somebody! Read your first sentence! .
Secondly,stop impersonating Dr Bokor because he will never respond to an educating & thought provoking article like this one! .The problem with you NPP people is that,you hate the truth & you think you know too much! .
For all you know,some international economists refer to Bawumia as a "theory economist ".He is misleading our country,period!
Dr. Otto 8 years ago

The article is senseless and useless, the writer is only seeking attention.

The article is senseless and useless, the writer is only seeking attention.
Alhaji Homeboy 8 years ago

I think the writer has completely lost the points Dr. Bawumia made. However, fact is not all people can read and understand.

Dr. Bawumia brought his message clearly to people with a certain level of I.Q.

I think the writer has completely lost the points Dr. Bawumia made. However, fact is not all people can read and understand.

Dr. Bawumia brought his message clearly to people with a certain level of I.Q.
kutsii 8 years ago

NPP sold tonnes of cocaine and made history as the first country and political party whose MP was arrested and jailed in the US. During his Kufuor's era cocaine was so common like groundnuts and gari and a lot of people got m ...
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NPP sold tonnes of cocaine and made history as the first country and political party whose MP was arrested and jailed in the US. During his Kufuor's era cocaine was so common like groundnuts and gari and a lot of people got mentally deranged. Now there are a lot of lunatics roaming Accra.
Agyekum 8 years ago

Congrats, Professor, these good for nothing NPP members will do what they are expect in doing, ie insults. That's the only language they were taught from infancy. Don't let their stinky mouths distract you. Keep it up.

Congrats, Professor, these good for nothing NPP members will do what they are expect in doing, ie insults. That's the only language they were taught from infancy. Don't let their stinky mouths distract you. Keep it up.
Godd 8 years ago

Muhamadu Bawumia is playing politics and nobody should take anything he says about Ghana's economy seriously.

The NPP people are touting him as a world-renowned economist for their political gains even though they, themsel ...
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Muhamadu Bawumia is playing politics and nobody should take anything he says about Ghana's economy seriously.

The NPP people are touting him as a world-renowned economist for their political gains even though they, themselves, know he is no world renowned economist.

Muhamadu has only three published papers to his name and NONE of these is in a prestigious journal (the so-called A journals in the field) as well as one or two book chapters. Even those published papers were co-authored.

Muhamadu has written several papers when he was with the Bank of Ghana. These were all internal working papers that were not peer reviewed and so never published. In academics, non-peer reviewed papers don't count!!!

Muhamadu's appointment as deputy governor of Bank of Ghana was a purely political who-you-know dadaba appointment. He was appointed over many of his seniors who were better than him because of his connections. His father was a founding member of the Danquah-Busia (forget about Dombo) coalition. His father was a founding member of the Northern Peoples Party and Muhamadu benefited a lot from his father's provenance. He did not attend university in Ghana because he could afford to go abroad after his secondary school.

I am not saying Muhamadu Bawumia is dumb or not brilliant. He was a good student but he was not the only Ghanaian who was a good student in Economics. There are many, including the present governor of the Bank of Ghana - a very brilliant guy in his student days even though his performance as governor today isn't good but that is a different matter.

So, therefore, Prof Lungu, don't give too much credit to Muhamadu Bawumia. I bet he knows no more economics than you, Lungu. He is just allowing himself to be used for political gains by people who will drop him immediately they no longer need him

After all, Akufo-Addo did Economics at Legon (third class). Why is he not the one talking about the economy?

We Ghanaians should endeavour not to be deceived by our politicians, whether they are NPP or NDC!!!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

Godd,
The little we know, Dr. Bawumia has not worked much in the academy since earning his terminal degree. He has therefore, been mostly an "economics practitioner".

As a result, we would be interested in knowing what p ...
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Godd,
The little we know, Dr. Bawumia has not worked much in the academy since earning his terminal degree. He has therefore, been mostly an "economics practitioner".

As a result, we would be interested in knowing what process improvements, to include enterprise alignments, etc., he was directly responsible for implementing "on the job" over the years.

In the US, with that pithy work experience, Bawumia would never have gotten into an executive position at any of the federal reserve banks, let alone the Central Bank, and as Deputy.

To the point, Bawumia's degree and 4-year odd work experience would only have qualified him for GS-11 position, with a potential promotion to GS-12, if he was lucky and still as brilliant as you discuss.

At those "high level" jobs he was assigned by fiat, as you discuss, and the fact that he is running to be Vice President of Ghana, "spoken words", and "written words" on matters bothering on policy and governance are not missed by other "important" people, inside/outside Ghana, among them critique like you.

We address some of those points in Part 2.0 of this 2-part essay.

Thanks for your comment.

Greetings.
Yaw 8 years ago

NPP was not in power in 2000. The NPP administration under Kufuor started on January 7, 2001.

NPP was not in power in 2000. The NPP administration under Kufuor started on January 7, 2001.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

Good point.

Thanks, Yaw!

We know that they won the election in 2000, and the data Bawumia presented in the paper we referenced starts with 2000 data.

Though a small matter, this goes to further undermine Bawumia's 5 ...
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Good point.

Thanks, Yaw!

We know that they won the election in 2000, and the data Bawumia presented in the paper we referenced starts with 2000 data.

Though a small matter, this goes to further undermine Bawumia's 500% "growth under the NPP" nonetheless. Because, we can now surely utilize the 2000 data as the single point baseline, non-NPP performance.

Greetings.

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