Deficit threat comes alive as voting day looms

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  • Odikro 9 years ago

    We are up to the neck in dent. Ghana's total debt to GDP is the 2nd highest in Africa (next to war-torn Mozambique). This is due to excessive borrowing by the NDC for projects that are, in many cases, over-priced to the tune ...
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  • Think Big 9 years ago

    Thank you bro. If our public debt is about 67.2% of our GDP then we got a big problem. The future is very bleak and yet people are shouting JM TOASO. Are we serious at all? It's time for a change of government to steer the ec ...
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  • KOO 9 years ago

    Those shouting JM Toaso,do not understand what is going on.They are being fooled all along with a few projects whose prices are hugely inflated by Mahama and his people.Four more years under this administration will be total ...
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  • mahama must go 9 years ago

    When it comes to fiscal and economic discipline of the mahama administration, they scored negative 99 percent. Gh is always more backwards under ndc. Mahama must go

  • XMAN 9 years ago

    This cant be true

  • Johnson 9 years ago

    Ghanaweb you can't save you NPP. The die is cast. NDC will do Ghana the favour by whitewashing Nana Addo. It will be the heaviest NPP defeat of all time. Trust me. The defeat will be resounding. JM toaso. No abaabas33

  • Executioner 9 years ago

    We live to see, my friend. Judgment day is tomorrow. We still remember the high utility tariffs. The astronomical cost of living. Dirty streets everywhere and the destruction of vegetation for galamsey, which mahama and ndc e ...
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  • Kay 9 years ago

    I ve always liked NDC but truth be told npp are better managers of this economy.

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  • joe 9 years ago

    Hmmm.The ndc is only thinking of winning election and not management of the economy.Even if Ghanaians will suffer for them to stay in government they don't care.Let vote them out tomorrow.

  • Benjamin Larbi 9 years ago

    As at 2008, you only needed,1 cedi 20 pesewas to get a dollar, but now you will need 4 CEDI's for 1 dollar, whhyyy!!!!!!!

  • yaa 9 years ago

    see... NDC vote is not in accra and social media so u ghanaweb stomach editor and npp don't waste ur time on cedi and gdp ok... john Is continuing....nooo ababaaaeee...so stop all this cos nana 72yrs will be home taking care ...
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  • mahama 9 years ago

    We already know that no sensible person in Ghana wsill vote for a party as NDC. So saying that NDC Voters are not from Accra and that from the villages are understood. If that is the case how about you? Reading the news and k ...
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  • Kanawu 9 years ago

    This is incompetent at its best. This corrupt and thief mahama must be voted out massively.........

  • blagodzi 9 years ago

    and if anyone believes the bit where it says that :

    "That large deficit incurred in 2012 had a cascading effect on macroeconomic stability in subsequent years. A year later, owing to the ‘rising debt levels’, resultin ...
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  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    I think Mahama does not understand the meaning of "deficit" else, he will not spend just to win the election. Buying cars and giving out monies is the mentality of most African leaders. They do that just to win elections then ...
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