well mom told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports and let you know for those who know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point i come on to say it's six am a car is on a dock in. a jail no more weasel words when you have a direct question be prepared for a change when you're told fine you should be ready for a battle freedom of speech and a little down to freedom to crash. but he sees things that sighted people don't notice. he's dead. but he hears things most people never to think call him disabled but he's the world's first deaf and blind dr of science. professor i think the other symbol of.

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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 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 i.m.f. is really to advise on micro parties 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 used the reduction of the reserve of the central bank to increase of the deficit there was a need to. provide some financing. to crises and had to authorities. to make balances. 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 did not. 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 it has greater independence. and resources to invest in the things that it needs to you know economy and transform the conditions of his people i mean that's it was what any logical thinking would be however. what is happening.

around the room. after finishing her chores in the morning comfortable cutty 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. i. was there. many of them have to walk at least five kilometers to get here was a little. 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 s.

and because of that there is no in the effective teaching and then a wheel. especially when ever it is threatening to rain we have to run home and wended the trees. to see improvement there wouldn't be snow. not being effective teaching and then in the course of the sun when it is hawt. feel comfortable two men and a teacher come also feel comfortable to teach. me. no toilets no play materials. and other infrastructure. to decide the problems for face in the 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 there

are no reasonable containers for us to saudi. because of what 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 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. in. 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 i. was was after said it 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. lemon in that one plus one and the other classes sitting under trees then. yes. so whenever it is raining

if even if it does threaten to rain we dismiss the children to. drive use forms 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 instance. 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. 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. pick. your. battles 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 you. know and again the inhabitants try to do whatever they can on their own they can teaching positions are covered by parents or volunteers. that we. hear a. little bit like. we have my own interesting problem with both somebody. who did this tattoo suffered in. war and they can provide that cheating with me to shows for them. when the look on plane. and there is that aggy. that's. a many.

saul's for education in. it's not enough to cover all the. trees so that the good in some but redoing for. dinner and almost promised to do it but definitely it come to help us. please please. you made the. cut.

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choose your language. of choice we can without any financial planner some of. the concerns get to. choose the opinions that invigorating good. clues to stories that impact your life choose access to your office. 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 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 a british colony now 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 of a comes the first big roll call of me in africa to gain its 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 obama and brandon. 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. that governmental general latta. unilaterally. decided not

to pay the debts that's gonna government to that and if it was a little of the ninety million dollars and. the general and the poor and 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 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 downturn 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 and so forth 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 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 the. 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 clarifying. actually over the last decade what we've 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 policies in most of sub-saharan africa has improved. substantially with an emphasis on my quest to be a key and on generating what we called but for us.

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 you with only so many jewels come to help us. number but no government official has ever come to visit us. yeah. only the ngos 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 fertilizer 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 twentieth well. that is one mil it costs ten cd for your local this is a time of great hunger. government cutbacks would mean for example in the case of i could culture that all kinds of subsidies are essential extension services they all come back and all those things affect everything becomes a market price the small farmer kind of buy those things they can't produce as well so for most of the farm is actually really home picked himself live in the farmers some of the not able to keep the food have to do it in school because they do look

in the big rigs in the shop or the feed in souls into this truck to support and so they have ways and then to support their children and they did. they actually what happened that day i don't know but i won't get killed. piers later is when i got arrested. for. a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore and it just doesn't happen

really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been a said lightman no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were off taking they could do what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no avenues of what they can for a weapon they sat. but he sees things that sighted people don't notice. he's dead. but he hears things that most people never do they call him disabled but he's the world's first deaf and blind doctor of science. professor. of. the great life lived against the odds.

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