Quit faulting Mahama for financial troubles - IEA's Dr. Kwakye to Bawumia
The Director of Research at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), Dr. John Kwakye has portrayed it as an incorrect situation to pin the ongoing financial difficulties on previous President John Mahama.
As per him, however one can't overlook the effect of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war, alluding to a past government for the current difficulty is certainly not an agreeable situation to put together a monetary contention with respect to.
"I can concede some of them, the effect of Covid 19, and the effect of the Russia-Ukraine war. Obviously, the NPP came to meet a difficult monetary circumstance when it took over in January 2017.
"There were a ton of unfulfilled obligations, the energy area unpaid debts, back payments to workers for hire and afterward, obviously, they carried out the monetary area bailouts which likewise carried the extra expense for the financial plan," he unveiled on TV3.
He proceeded: "Yet we were in an IMF program and afterward we left from the program, so one would have felt that when we left essentially we were in a quite agreeable place for that reason we left. So I am not happy that we need to return five and a half years and bring things that happened such countless a long time back to the present."
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The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has guaranteed that the GhanaCard is more effective to the country's advancement than developing 1000 exchanges the nation over.
Dr. Bawumia talking at the Accra Business School on Thursday (14 July), under the subject: 'The Role of Information Technology Education in the Government's Digitalisation Agenda', said the GhanaCard will affect Ghana's improvement in the long haul.
"Today we have 16 million Ghanaians with special personalities and that is a significant change, a many individuals at times don't see the value in what the effect of the GhanaCard is however in the event that you gave 1000 trades and the GhanaCard, I will pick the GhanaCard on the grounds that it morely affects advancement," Dr Bawumia said.
The Vice President who has as of late been criticized for Ghana's ongoing financial emergencies likewise accused the country's monetary difficulties bringing about an IMF bailout demand on what he portrays as a fourfold Whammy.
As per him, the energy area overabundance limit installments, the financial area tidy up and the COVID-19 effect on the economy set off the IMF circumstance for the country.
"The Ministry of Finance gauges that the interest installment on this getting for the three things adds up to GHC8.5 billion every year. This is some 23% of Ghana's yearly interest installments of GHC 37 billion,"
He added: "It ought to be noticed that without the GHC54.0 billion obligation for the three outstanding things (COVID-19, Financial Sector and Energy), Ghana's obligation to GDP would be inside the supportability edge of some 68% rather than the 76.6% toward the finish of 2021."
"Assuming you take out the monetary effect of this fourfold whammy, Ghana won't be going to the IMF for help on the grounds that our financial, obligation and equilibrium of installments standpoint would be manageable.
"Of the four elements, two (COVID-19 and the Russia Ukraine war) were outer and the other two (the financial area tidy up and the overabundance limit installments) were the aftereffect of strategies of the past government."
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