Ghana's Strategic Opportunity: Joining BRICS and leveraging Islamic finance for transformational development

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The Spear 11 months ago

Reason with your brain, and don't be a big, fat, arsehole! Who should consider joining stupid BRICS?

Reason with your brain, and don't be a big, fat, arsehole! Who should consider joining stupid BRICS?
NDC INVASION OF GHANA. 11 months ago

I DON'T KNOW WHY OUR ECONOMISTS CANT DESIGN A STRATEGIC CHANNELS THAT CAN MAKE GHANA A SELF SUFFICIENT COUNTRY WITHOUT ALIGNING OURSELVES WITH THESE BRICS, IMF, WORLD BANK ETC. SLAVERY CONTINUES BY JOINING THEM.WE ARE ALWAYS ...
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I DON'T KNOW WHY OUR ECONOMISTS CANT DESIGN A STRATEGIC CHANNELS THAT CAN MAKE GHANA A SELF SUFFICIENT COUNTRY WITHOUT ALIGNING OURSELVES WITH THESE BRICS, IMF, WORLD BANK ETC. SLAVERY CONTINUES BY JOINING THEM.WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR HELP HELP HELP AND HELP DOESN'T COME FREE! THAT'S WHY WE ARE STILL WHERE WE ARE.
So when shall we stop borrowing 11 months ago

We must work hard to finances our projects instead of always go for loans,it's loan interest and documentation can do something better

We must work hard to finances our projects instead of always go for loans,it's loan interest and documentation can do something better
Accranie 11 months ago

Since It's Being Denied that Africans Like Ready Made Things. Let Us Explore Banking/Credit in The African Setting
In the Classic Work Things Fall Apart, Mr Achebe Illustrated This Process in the Scene Where Okonkwo Procured ...
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Since It's Being Denied that Africans Like Ready Made Things. Let Us Explore Banking/Credit in The African Setting
In the Classic Work Things Fall Apart, Mr Achebe Illustrated This Process in the Scene Where Okonkwo Procured His Seed(Sharecropping)Funding to Start his Farm/Life
mohammed saeed 11 months ago

Assalm,
I write to comment on your intellectual article, is very inspiring, i suggest you try to link with the current government and also joined the propose national dialog forum to be organized by the current government. I ...
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Assalm,
I write to comment on your intellectual article, is very inspiring, i suggest you try to link with the current government and also joined the propose national dialog forum to be organized by the current government. I really enjoy your article keep it up.
Ola Normann 11 months ago

I agree with Dr Ali. This is a golden opportunity to get away from the old archaic western exploitative system

I agree with Dr Ali. This is a golden opportunity to get away from the old archaic western exploitative system
123 11 months ago

No BRICS. We are non-aligned, and that ends it. For Islamic Finance, the agenda was for Bawumia to win so they could push it through. Once Islamic Finance was adopted, the next agenda was to push Ghana into the Organisation o ...
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No BRICS. We are non-aligned, and that ends it. For Islamic Finance, the agenda was for Bawumia to win so they could push it through. Once Islamic Finance was adopted, the next agenda was to push Ghana into the Organisation of Islamic Cooperating Countries (ICC) with the excuse that it is for business purposes and not religious purposes. With Ghana in ICC, the Islamic agenda for Ghana was over.
Accranie 11 months ago

This Form of Banking/Guarantee System Still Exist in Some Form(Trade Skill ApprenticeShip System)
Gh./Africans in the Words of Prof. Lumumba Have A Proverbial Box Around Their Heads Within Which They Think and Apparently

This Form of Banking/Guarantee System Still Exist in Some Form(Trade Skill ApprenticeShip System)
Gh./Africans in the Words of Prof. Lumumba Have A Proverbial Box Around Their Heads Within Which They Think and Apparently
Accranie 11 months ago

Building and Scaling Allegedly Indigenous Ways&Systems Has Been PullDown from the Drawing Board, So The Ways Looks Quite Backward(Unattractive) Compared to Similar Ways&Systems of Other Civilizations(Who Found the Time for Ge ...
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Building and Scaling Allegedly Indigenous Ways&Systems Has Been PullDown from the Drawing Board, So The Ways Looks Quite Backward(Unattractive) Compared to Similar Ways&Systems of Other Civilizations(Who Found the Time for Gestation,Agya Koo Nimo,An Old Man Plants a Tree)
Enough is Enough 11 months ago

Why should we join BRICS to leverage on their money?
Should Ghana always be at the receiving end?
South Africa got $500M for renewable energy and co. Didn't Ghana get over GHS 800B in the past government without BRICS? Whi ...
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Why should we join BRICS to leverage on their money?
Should Ghana always be at the receiving end?
South Africa got $500M for renewable energy and co. Didn't Ghana get over GHS 800B in the past government without BRICS? Which is better; GHS 800B or $500M?
We are already getting enough funds elsewhere in peace. It's left with our brains for us to be financially independent. And BRICS won't do so for us.
Enough is Enough 11 months ago

God has blessed the US and their USD. Whom God blessed, no one can curse. No association, bloc or organization can easily fight them and win.
The USD is managed by one country. So it can easily stand the rest of time as it h ...
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God has blessed the US and their USD. Whom God blessed, no one can curse. No association, bloc or organization can easily fight them and win.
The USD is managed by one country. So it can easily stand the rest of time as it has always been. BRICS on the other hand is a bloc. Very soon, national primacy will destroy it.
The WORLD BANK, IMF, etc operate in USD. It will take 1000s of years for BRICS to become a world currency.
The US do not beg anyone to join them to fight another currency. But BRICS is a warring association. When they get tired, they will start parting ways.

SHOULD GHANA JOIN AN ANTAGONISTIC BLOC ?
Stephen 11 months ago

Google and read about the Briton woods institutions and how it was created. USD is relevant because most countries around the world accepted it. The reverse can happen too. Anyway, are you talking geopolitics or financial str ...
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Google and read about the Briton woods institutions and how it was created. USD is relevant because most countries around the world accepted it. The reverse can happen too. Anyway, are you talking geopolitics or financial strategy?
Akwasi KB. 11 months ago

No greedy politicians will take us to join any Nonsense setup only because they go about with the titles of Dr. Prof or whatever. Ghana remains a Non Allied country as you came to meet it. The gather and loot mentality is beg ...
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No greedy politicians will take us to join any Nonsense setup only because they go about with the titles of Dr. Prof or whatever. Ghana remains a Non Allied country as you came to meet it. The gather and loot mentality is beginning to show. This time No way to Way.
Abbt 11 months ago

Herr,Herr,herr.Please stop all those theoretical talk.
Africans always want easy passage into development,why so?
Various development models are there for us all to see. The American,Japanese ,Chinese,Singaporean models.Joi ...
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Herr,Herr,herr.Please stop all those theoretical talk.
Africans always want easy passage into development,why so?
Various development models are there for us all to see. The American,Japanese ,Chinese,Singaporean models.Joining any train does not oftentimes take you to the desired destination. The
Road to development is simple yet difficult because humans are not prepared to confront
their Demons:INDISCIPLINE.
Individually,Afican States are weak and until we find ways to interlink,fashion out complimentary policies,collective leveraging,we are going No where.
We will be running around like Cornered Rats.
THE CHINESE IN THEIR NUMBERS HAVE DONE IT.
Muji 11 months ago

Instead of telling Ghana to work hard to generate enough revenue for the gap.the economist is tell us to go and borrow more

Instead of telling Ghana to work hard to generate enough revenue for the gap.the economist is tell us to go and borrow more
Stephen 11 months ago

I agree with the writer. Great ideas, but I disagree with the idea of creating new institutions (National Islamic Finance House) to manage special finance operations such as the Islamic finance. This can easily be handled by ...
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I agree with the writer. Great ideas, but I disagree with the idea of creating new institutions (National Islamic Finance House) to manage special finance operations such as the Islamic finance. This can easily be handled by BoG where a special unit is created for such a purpose. Creating a whole new creature that will solely depend on gov't subvention alone is cost.
Mr Jon Reset 11 months ago

You have given us only the benefits of joining BRICS etc
What about the negative side?Please give us both sides so that we can make informed decisions.

You have given us only the benefits of joining BRICS etc
What about the negative side?Please give us both sides so that we can make informed decisions.
Peter 11 months ago

The main purpose of BRICS is to counter US economic and its currency the dollar dominance. Russia and China want to serve this interest and are wooing weaker nations to make up numbers. Even great India who is a member is ag ...
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The main purpose of BRICS is to counter US economic and its currency the dollar dominance. Russia and China want to serve this interest and are wooing weaker nations to make up numbers. Even great India who is a member is against this purpose and has pledged the use of Dollar in its international business transactions.
Mahma 11 months ago

Islamic sharia, seriously?
If you lack ingenuity, shut your mouth. No system will solve our problems except we as a people decide to work hard, innovate, and scale up saving and investment. There is no easy way out for deve ...
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Islamic sharia, seriously?
If you lack ingenuity, shut your mouth. No system will solve our problems except we as a people decide to work hard, innovate, and scale up saving and investment. There is no easy way out for development Mr whoever your name is.
Fireman 11 months ago

There is nothing religious about this, just say fund from the middle east bcos when you say Islamic in can be mistaken for something else. Just a word of caution.

There is nothing religious about this, just say fund from the middle east bcos when you say Islamic in can be mistaken for something else. Just a word of caution.
Fireman 11 months ago

We need to build our gold reserves that so that we can join bricks and to avoid the western monopoly

We need to build our gold reserves that so that we can join bricks and to avoid the western monopoly
RAB 11 months ago

Great idea

Great idea
India is going back to dollar business 11 months ago

Russia is using strategy to group more nations for his hiding third world war policy,so be careful

Russia is using strategy to group more nations for his hiding third world war policy,so be careful
Macgordon Akosenaba 11 months ago

We are talking about 42 combined EU and USA trillion dollars, youbwant to send us back to the Cuban days. LORD JESUS PROTECT. INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, BRAZIL NEED AS MUCH WESTERN AID AS GHANA. POOR COUNTRY GOING TO BORROW FROM ...
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We are talking about 42 combined EU and USA trillion dollars, youbwant to send us back to the Cuban days. LORD JESUS PROTECT. INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, BRAZIL NEED AS MUCH WESTERN AID AS GHANA. POOR COUNTRY GOING TO BORROW FROM STRUGGLING ECONOMIES
Osei 11 months ago

Joining BRICS?
Very stupid idea from an idiot

Joining BRICS?
Very stupid idea from an idiot
Jacob 11 months ago

Joining BRICS is certainly an attractive alternative to Ghana's present critical economic strangulation. The capitalist-controlled IMF.and World Bank have not helped us to fully develop our Resources. However, the critical re ...
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Joining BRICS is certainly an attractive alternative to Ghana's present critical economic strangulation. The capitalist-controlled IMF.and World Bank have not helped us to fully develop our Resources. However, the critical requirement is that we should ensure that our development priorities are geared to benefit the ordinary Ghanaian citizen.
Bazz 11 months ago

All they know is to join this and that, it's time to be self reliant wai

All they know is to join this and that, it's time to be self reliant wai
Kassim Siaka 11 months ago

I think it is about time Ghana adopts this Islamic banking system to leverage on the opportunities that comes with it.

I think it is about time Ghana adopts this Islamic banking system to leverage on the opportunities that comes with it.

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