harold when it's people people like numbers. many in latin america are furious with the forced grounding of bolivia's president evo morales is playing in austria and even twelve nations in latin america are coming together to discuss the consequences of the event the plane was forced to the ground while flying over the e.u. because it was believed that that sneaky snowden was hiding on board trying to get to asylum in bolivia and beyond some might say that this is no big deal some president of some contras since he had a delayed flight for a few hours things happen man you got to get that still guy at all costs right well one may have delayed flight is another man's imperial skyjacking you see the countries of latin america have

a common history as being on the bad end of brutal western european imperialism and when the president of a former colony could just be abducted at the will of the you would have his plane searched it sure makes you feel like you're still under the lash of foreign control doesn't it do any of you think for a moment that any e.u. officials who are so willing to ground morality would dare to do the same thing air force one i don't think so clearly was treated like some sort of second class president and despite this insult they didn't even catch oden this is what i call a double fail but that's just my opinion.

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 new modern offices for both local companies and banks and multinationals. expensive cars roaming the streets. shiny moles for filling the consumer dreams of the capital's affluent people. again as 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 role of the i.m.f. is really to advise on micro police she's so we we do not we do not construct

bridges and develop infrastructure but in time of my core stability 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. current economic success could not have been accomplished without the newly received loans the last loan agreement between ghana and the i.m.f. was in two thousand and nine for the sum of six hundred two million dollars at 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 had the reduction of reserve of the central bank the

increase of the deficit there was a need to. provide some financing. to crises and had to authorities restore microeconomic balances. dept exploded to a new record high reaching fourteen point six billion dollars. as if. it doesn't have to be paid back but our children and grandchildren will have to pay is that and i think it's almost like selling the family silver. you do you can get it back. finance led economic management has been they. and their religion of african rulers and at m.f.'s one so forth 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 would think that if economies growing. independence

space. and resources to invest in the things that it needs to you know to me and transform the conditions of his people i mean that 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 grand children for school she is a primary school teacher at paga a small agricultural community in northeastern ghana. was. this is the primary school every tree is a cost for a bear or two hundred ninety one children studying here while. many of them have to walk at least five kilometers to get here was a little was there. 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 effect if teaching and leno. especially when ever it is threatening to rain we have to run home and wended the trees sharing the same problem they would in the dead of snow. not being effective teaching and then in the course of deciding when it is hawt. feel confortable to learn and they teach also feel comfortable to teach. me.

no toilets no place materials. and other infrastructure. to decide 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 the top will drink the water and when it's voted to school there are no reasonable pointedness for us to store there. because of what they did a government who always complained and promised but nothing has been that. one of the i.m.f. conditions to sign the loan agreement of two thousand and nine was a cut in public sector spending ghana's 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 afeard and invested all her savings. really. i. want my own i was after side at the mobilized. 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. lemon in that one classroom and the other classes sitting under trees. yet. whenever it is raining is even if it is threaten to rain we dismiss the children to. drive use forms indeed. and then when it is around said lauren much this no shit at all we all got that one classroom we can use in lots and i thank you for. 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. i know you look at you you. know and again the inhabitants try to do whatever they can on their own vacant teaching positions are covered by parents or volunteers. that are. here.

the only way. we have monitress improvement on the bus i'm going. to do this tattoo softy. video wall and they can provide that cheating with new t. shirts for them. when the look on plane. and there is that ad. that's. discourse and many. end of fun that obvious souls for education in gun. it's not enough to cover all just the did they disclose that on the trees so das talked a good in some but redoing for me it was gotten out and the owner has promised to do it but definitely it come up to help us. please. him.

in jack and not a significant amount of small arms and to these already extremely volatile region of a porous borders. what kind of a placation could it have not only for syria but also for the rest of the region it's a power game i mean if the opposition gets more weapons which can really strategically hurt the government it could change turkey equation by wrapping. cool. look right the same playbook first street. and i would think that you're. on a reporter's twitter. and instagram clean. slate.

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when i return 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. 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 i wish we had electricity's 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 that's gonna becomes 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 primate battle plan has prayer. and drama drama and brandon well i. told ruler about a country. the national liberation council government 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 our chum pong for through the government. the governmental general election. unilaterally. decided not to pay the debts that's gonna government to the m.f. it was a little over ninety 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 doesn't back into economic decline and we ended up going back to the i am there for you know

that was after the coup that threw a chump amount and it's an interesting paradigm that seems to be. an almost unholy think too good a time as. an economic downturns and then a falling back on the i.m.f. as almost as a c.v.s. . drop africa in the one nine hundred ninety eight 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 one that affected many more reasons of course by the critical reason has been that the how to secure a growth model which you know if unifies the my joy section of the ruling class number one. which reduces deflates the political expectation of the population number two because shock therapy is also to tell people that you know 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 patient from the public sector you have to go out in the market and fight for yourself. and if you look at our history. and 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 of the 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 have seen in africa and ships are in africa. is extremely encouraging in terms of microcosmic polish if we can say that over the last decade michael polley she's in most of ships are in africa has improved. substantially with an emphasis on my quest to bt and on generating what we called buffers.

i grew culture 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 just. women who brought you with

only so many jewels come to help us. number but no government official has ever come to visit us. yeah. only the n.g.o.s teach us how to improve how to improve our methods. one doesn't come to teach us. oh and 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 i don't understand why the government isn't helping us. to welcome that. well that food sufficiency has its ups and downs there are times of abundance and times when there is not enough food for the community. to have the periods of hunger along that is when the food prices hit the roof well . that is one mil it costs ten cd for euro this is a time of great hunger that. the

government cutbacks would mean for example in the case of i think also that all kinds of subsidies are reset extension services they all come back and all those things affect everything becomes a market price a small farmer kind of buy those things they can produce as well so for most of these farmers actually i really hope it turns out. in the farmers some of the i'm not able to get a foot after the new school because they did not generate enough revenue to shop or then feed into a structure to support and so they have waste and then to support their children and they take. oh music is our job the army our destiny and these soldiers don't know what real arms look like but it didn't take them a single shots to conquer the world.

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