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General News on Thursday, January 24, 2019
Source: clbadfmonline.com
2019-01-24
Former Rector of GIMPA, Professor Stephen Adei
According to Professor Stephen Adei, former rector of the Institute of Management and Public Administration of Ghana (GIMPA), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's vision of a Ghana beyond the Help can not be a short-term program.
When she took office on 7 January 2017, Nana Akufo-Addo expressed the wish of her government to prudently manage the country's natural resources so that the country's development program could be financed without resorting to financial badistance. external badistance – program mentioned by the president. as a construction "Ghana beyond help".
Nana Akufo-Addo said that realizing her vision of Ghana beyond help "requires a deliberate and qualitative change in every aspect of our lives," during the celebration of the 61st Day of the Day. independence, on the place of the black star, Tuesday, March 6, 2018.; in particular, in the structure of our economy, the nature of our infrastructure, the education of our young people and the acquisition of skills, and especially in our attitudes and our attachment to the values that define us. "
He said: "Even though there was no fatigue related to the help, with the best will of the world and the most charitable governments in place in the so-called donor countries, the help would never be enough to develop Ghana to the desired level. . The aid has never been designed to bring us to the status of a developed country.
Speaking about the president's vision in an exclusive interview with Benjamin Akakpo on the occasion of the Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Clbad91.3FM, Professor Adei said that Ghana, beyond help, is a vision that deserves to be pursued but can not be achieved in the short term.
He said, "Beyond help, Ghana can never be a short-term program. You can not turn your dependency economy into totally independent of any help.
"At the present time, for example, we are spending about 93% of all revenues that the government mobilizes solely for public sector wages and this represents less than one million of the 30.2 million Ghanaians and we spend for them all our income and the rest. on the debt service.
"So you will need time to change fundamentals to reduce the payroll and also reduce the burden of our debt service. But it is a good goal that as a nation we must reach a point where we fund most of our developments with our own resources, relying more on trade than charity, which has not helped us much. .
"But I do not think that Ghana beyond help can be a short-term program but it's a vision that's worth being chosen".
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