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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 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 rule of yeah is really to advise of micro police she's so we we do not we do not construct bridges and develop infrastructure but in time of micro 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.

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 our 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. which therefore should feed that process even. one of the fastest growing economies not just in africa but in the world last year was. one of the effects of that is that you wouldn't you would think that if a call is growing it has greater independence. 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 not 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 cost from bear or 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 a 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 leno. especially when ever it is threatening to ring we have to run home and wended the cheese sharing the same problem it would in the snow. not being effective teaching and then in the course of decide when it is hawt. feel comfortable to listen and to check on melissa feel comfortable to teach. me. no toilets no play 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 put up will drink the water and when it's aborted 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. 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. want my oh my god i've decided to mobilize. to help me with from money to a classroom i've 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. lennon in that one. and the other classes sit in under trees. yet. so whenever it is raining if even if it does threaten to rain would dismiss the children to. drive years forms indeed. and then when it is more a much this no shit at all we're all. in one class and we can use in lots and thanks reforms to. 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 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 they can teaching positions are covered by parents or volunteers. that. are. here. the only way. we have monitress improving the both somebody. to soften the. war and they can provide cheating with nutritious food.

when the look on plane. and there is that i guess. that's. discourse and many. end of fun that saul's for education and gun. it's not enough to cover all just the day to disclose that and the trees so dust 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. track them out. into the future to god instills into texas on this one show we found out why

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to notice. the faces change the walls lights now. so picture of the states leaves. pundits from around the globe. the globe to. fifty. 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.

or have a lot of chores and can't study during the day i usually study at night. and 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'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 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 said scott have a comes the first negro color 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. 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 at chum pong for through the government. governmental general let's jump. 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 afraid no that was after the coup that threw 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 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. fact that 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 and fight for yourself. and if you look at the history. that the stratagems has 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 and

clarified. 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.

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. 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. the ministry of agriculture used to provide us with fertilizer but now they have stopped. cold war well now they never visit us like they used to about. 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.

to have the periods of hunger along that is when the food prices hit the roof. that is one mil it costs ten cd for you. this is a time of great hunger. the government cutbacks would mean for example in the case of i could culture that all kinds of subsidies all research all extension services they all come and all those things affect everything becomes a market price a small farm a kind of buy those things they can produce as well so for most of the farm is actually really home paid tens of live in the farmers some of the number. would have to do it because they'd look in the river then. feed instills into its truck

to support and so they have ways and then disappeared into the new medication. is actually what happened 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. people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the cycle. watchable techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were off taking they could do what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said.

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