lead. in the beginning of two thousand and thirteen the capital of ghana was named africa's fastest growing city.

proof of this where the dozens of cranes dotting the horizon satisfying the demand for a new modern offices for both local companies and banks and multinationals. expensive cars roam the streets. shiny moles filling the consumer dreams of the capital's affluent people. ghana's economy is thriving. the country is among the world's fastest growing economies and is africa's number one and growth rates. for the i.m.f. ghana is

a success story. successful. the rule of the m.f. is really to advise a micro police she's so we we do not we do not construct bridges and develop infrastructure but in time of my quest ability clearly over the last. few years have done quite well in terms of generating an environment of macroeconomic stability which is necessary to have investment and growth and job creation. ghana's current economic success could not have been accomplished without the newly received loans the last loan agreement between the i.m.f. was in two thousand and nine for the sum of six hundred two million dollars that time the country experienced some fiscal slippage is and depletion of its

international reserves which was a combination of increased public spending but also. the side effect of the global financial crisis so we used the reduction of reserves at the central bank to increase the deficit there was a need to. provide some financing. to crises and had to authorities. to make balances. ghana's dept exploded to a new record high reaching fourteen point six billion dollars we talk about credit facilities as if. it doesn't have to be paid back but our children and grandchildren will have to pay is that i'm i think it's almost like selling the family silver. you do kind of did not. finance lead economic management has been they. and their religion of african rulers and. and every so-called group is seen as a success which therefore should feed that process even. one of the

fastest growing economies not just in africa but in the world last year. one of the effects of that is that you so you wouldn't you would think that if a color is growing it has greater independence it has greater space. and resources to invest in the things that it needs to you know transform its economy and transform the conditions of his people i mean that's it was what any logical thinking would be however in our case that is not what is happening.

around the room. after finishing her chores in the morning comfortable county prepares her grandchildren for school she is a primary school teacher at paga a small agricultural community in northeastern ghana. it was. this is the primary school every tree is a classroom there are two hundred ninety one children studying here while. i. was there.

many of them have to walk at least five kilometers to get here i was little. i was. the second largest gold producer in africa cannot provide classrooms to sauza as of children. in ghana four thousand schools have no facilities the lessons like here take place under the trees. we do house structure. we are teaching under three s. and because of that there is no in the effective teaching and then a will you. especially when ever it is said to intervene will have to run home and when did the cheese sharing the same problem they would in the snow. not been

effective teaching and then in the course of the sun when it is hawt. feel comfortable to listen and to check on also feel comfortable to teach. me. no toilets no place materials. and other infrastructure. that is that the problems we're facing to school and i'm not a problem as what a problem. we don't have what. so anomalous about three kilometers or four kilometers for put up will drink the water and when it's it is voted there are no reasonable containers for us to store their. because of poverty they did a government who always complained and promises but nothing has been the. one of the i.m.f. conditions to sign the loan agreement of two thousand and nine was

a cut in public sector spending gammas education system has been affected dramatically. well. in order for the government to reach its goals for deficit reduction it decided to cut almost thirty one million euro from the education sector. the building of new classrooms and facilities would have to wait. the government's absence is covered by the community members who raise money in order to build classrooms in any way they can. miss comfort was a leader of this africa and invested all her savings. really. i. want my oh my god i have decided to mobilize. to

help me with some money to put up a classroom i have used my own money in addition to this current amount that was contributed by the community members to put up one classroom block who was who i was. and now some of the children. lenin in that one plus one and the other classes sit in under trees. yet. so whenever it is raining is even if it is threaten to rain would dismiss the children to. drive years forms indeed. and then when it is boring much this no shit at all we all got that one classroom we can use in

lots and i thanks we foresee. the recruitment freeze in the public sector another one of the i.m.f. stipulations for signing the loan agreement had an instant impact on the quality of ghana's education system. according to the country's education department in order to cover the teacher shortage alone in primary schools thirty three thousand one hundred eighty five teachers are needed this is something that will never be approved but. you're. here in northern ghana there is one trained teacher like comfort for every one hundred seventy. five students. are you know you look at you. and again the inhabitants try to do whatever they can on their own they can teaching positions are covered by parents or volunteers.

that are. here. the only way. we have my own interest in problem because i'm going. to do this to soften the. wall when they come provide that cheating with me to shows for them. when the look on plane. and there is that the aggie. that's. discourse and many. end of fun that obvious saul's for education and gun. it's not enough to cover all of the day to disclose that on the trees so das that the good in some but redoing for me it was off my at all tonight and the owners promised to do it but definitely it come up to help us.

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put the military again in control after a coup what does the future hold trick egypt is this country's experiment with democracy a thing of the past what signal does this coup send to islam and parties in the region that will washington should be taking the money objections ever be redeemed . play. live. live. live.

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sleep but lomis a good live. just sleep. and. i come out fine i'm a little. but when i returned home from school i read a little and then go to the river to get water then i go to the forest to gather wood and then i cook.

when i have a lot of chores and can't study during the day i usually study at night. that i study with a flashlight because the community has no electricity. it's difficult studying that way. sometimes someone needs a flashlight and i have to wait until they finish. and that makes it difficult for me to study. and so i wish we had electricity so i could study comfortably. in the future i want to become a useful person. i want to become a nurse. so

. citizens of the new state of god gather all the celebration marking their day of freedom from colonialism what was once the gold coast of british colony mel becomes an independent commonwealth vice president and mrs nixon represent the united states at the three day festivities and native dances and games mark an event of historic importance since got of it comes the first big roll call of me in africa again it's freedom. in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven ghana gained its independence from the english ever since there has been a love hate relationship with the i.m.f.

. from one thousand nine hundred sixty six five governments have received loans power has changed hands many times after so many coups. the first to approach the i.m.f. in one thousand nine hundred sixty five was ghana's first president and independence leader. as a marxist he was quick to reject the funds conditions he was overthrown a year later. but in many countries the red dry maze battle plan of prayer. and drama obama and brandon. today are they polled ruler about

a country. the national liberation council governments that came to power signed the loan agreement with the i.m.f. and accepted the conditions. the economy made a spectacular rebound and at the same time product prices increased. but kick our exports did not yield the expected revenue in one thousand nine hundred eighty one after the fun's recommendation the currency was devalued by forty six point eight percent there was a wage freeze and taxes were increased. a year later general a chum pong for through the government. the governmental general that young people. unilaterally. decided not to pay the debts that's gonna government to that if it was

a little over nineteen million dollars and. the general at the point took the position that it was something we couldn't see and we pushed for self-reliance. that was the message that he was giving to ghana and i think he made an impact unfortunately the price of oil hikes soon after that pushed us back into economic decline and we ended up going back to the i.m.f. for a loan that was after the coup that through a chump amount and it's an interesting paradigm that seems to be. an almost on holy link to good a time as. an economic downturn and then a falling back on the i.m.f. as almost a c.v.s.

. drop africa in the one thousand nine hundred ninety eight if you want you we had what you call i.m.f. rats which is the price of food going up as well as before and that kind of is the ability yes it has to be the backdrop to a lot of the. many more reasons of course but the critical reason has been that the how to secure a growth model which you know unifies the my joy section of the ruling class number one. which which reduces deflates the political expectation of the population number two. is also to tell people that your political expectations about what you can get on a realistic you can get free education you can get public housing you can get

a good pension from the public sector you have to go out in the market and fight for yourself. and if you look at our history. that the stratagems have been the scene it's about. devaluing the cd it's about. fiscal. restrictions it's about restricting the government's wage bill it's about privatization or divest investing in government factories these are the same things that they do time and again and i do wonder. whether if you keep doing the same thing over and over again and the country doesn't move out of poverty if there isn't a need to rethink what you do well let me maybe quantify what you said in

clarify. actually over the last decade what we've seen in africa and ships are in africa. is extremely encouraging in terms of microcosmic policy if we can say that over the last decade michael policies in most of the foreign african has improved. substantially with an emphasis on my quest to bt and on generating what we called buffers. but.

agriculture is one of ghana's most productive sectors. here in the north however it is the only way to survive. glenn doesn't give much. and we use the same old varieties our grandfathers did on. them they don't really give a good harvest. women who brought you with only so many jewels come to help us. number but no government official has ever come to visit those. young was. only n.g.o.s teach us how to improve improve our methods number. one doesn't come to teach us.

the ministry of agriculture used to provide us with fertilizers but now they have stopped. moving well now they never visit us like they used to. people really i don't understand why the government isn't helping us. with the. well the food sufficiency has its ups and downs. there are times of abundance and times when there isn't enough food for the community.

so have the periods of hunger along that is when the food prices hit the roof twentieth well. that is one mil it costs ten cd for euro this is a time of great hunger. government cutbacks would mean for example in the case of agriculture that all kinds of subsidies are essential extension services they all come back and all those things affect everything becomes a market price a small form a kind of buy those things they can produce as well so most of the farm is actually really compact in terms of life in the farmers some of the not able to keep the food have to do it in school because they do look in the blue ribbon and then feed

into this truck to support and so they have waste and then disappeared at any medication. they all told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for the employers to know i will lead them to state department comment on your latter point. to secure a car is on the job you know god. thank you no more weasel or. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you run you should be ready for a. critical stage in a little down to to freedom. i

would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. i'm not used to the tundra to freedom i am my dear. came. in second grade i ran away from the boarding school with to my friends will be around to the tundra. of the tundra is just in this quito that practically i don't know how people can

live there to get in there no t.v.'s in the tenth how can i send my child to boarding school that i won't be able to sleep at night after that. they enter a life without knowledge of how to do basic things you know they don't get that in the school. system.

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prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for the muslim brotherhood leader after monday's deadly clashes while rival political factions failed to agree on a transition plan leaving the country in deadlock. russia says it's evidence that syrian rebels not government troops have used chemical weapons is ready to be made public that's according to russia's foreign minister also his back and u.s. efforts to put the blame on the syrian regime. and with edward snowden widely expected to receive political asylum in venezuela so i they're ready for the fugitive whistleblower is growing across lead america r.t. speaks to up with doris foreign minister about what's behind this support.