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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 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. the successful. rule of the i.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 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. to make a balance of. 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 and i think it's almost like selling the family silver. you do kind of good luck finance lead economic management has been they. and their religion of african rulers and. 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 a of economy is growing. independent space. and resources to invest in the things that it needs to you know 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 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.

was. this is the primary school every tree is a classroom there are two hundred ninety one children studying here while. many of them have to walk at least five kilometers to get here. was. the second largest gold producer in africa cannot provide classrooms to thousands 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. and because of that there is no in effect if teaching and leno. especially when ever it is threatening to rain will have to run home when did that she's sharing the same problem it would in the snow or dad not being effective teaching and then in the course of deciding when it is hawt. feel comfortable to listen and to check on melissa 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 it is bolted to school there are no reasonable containers for us to store. because of poverty 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. me. i. was i. was 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 discount 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. lemon and that one classroom and the other classes sit in

under trees. yet. so whenever it is raining even if it is threaten to rain we dismiss the children to. drive you to this room's indeed. and then when it is more i'm much this nor should. we all get that in 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 gammas education system. and. 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 trains teacher like comfort for every one hundred seventy. five students. are you are you. are 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 money in the christian problem because somebody. who did this to soften the. war and they can provide that chilling with me to show us for them. when the look on plane. and there is that ad.

that's. discourse and many. end of fun that saul's for education in. it's not enough to cover all this they did to disclose that on the trees so dad started gooden some but redoing for me it was gotten out and the owners promised to do it but definitely it come to a head it's. going. to meddle. in jack and not a significant amount of small arms into 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 a raffle. if you. eat.

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 nurse. lead . citizens of the new state of god gather while the celebration marking their day of freedom from colonialism what was once the gold coast of british 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 god becomes the first big row column in africa who gave its freedom. in one nine hundred fifty seven ghana game to 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. i'm gonna. brandon well i. told ruler about it on. 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. exports did not yield the expected revenue in one nine hundred seventy 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 overthrew the government. that governmental

general actually. 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 be. and we pushed for self-reliance and 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.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 downturns and then a falling back on the i.m.f. as almost a c.v.s. . drop africa in the one 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 if unifies 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 has been the scene it's about. devaluing the cd it's about. fiscal. restrictions it's about restricting government 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 have seen in africa and ships are in africa. is extremely encouraging in terms of microcosmic policies we can say that over the last decade michael polley she's in most of sub-saharan africa has improved. substantially with an emphasis on my quest ability 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 harvest. women who brought to him only so many jewels come to help us. but no government official has ever come to visit those. yeah.

only the ngos teach us how to improve improve our methods. the government doesn't come to teach us. for 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. i don't understand why the government isn't helping us. with the.

when 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. and that is one mill it costs ten cd for you. this is a time of great hunger. government cutbacks would mean for example in the case of a culture that all kinds of subsidies are reset extension services they all come and all those things affect everything becomes a small form

a kind of buy those things produce as well so for most of the farm is actually really home picked himself. some of them. would have to do it because in the bridge of the shop or the feed into its truck to support and so they have waste and then to support their children and they did. some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and developed and that's down from generation. this is a total destruction of the culture of mexico by telling them i mean this this is not going to impact a swelling in mexico whatever happens here. in the in the open. source. genetically engineer why do you think this country is full of obese and so. people because we have

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