say it was sparked by a nearby motorcycle accident the flames left a two kilometer high column of smoke. over the comet all four hours after it was put out. a storage tank has leaked three hundred tons of contaminated water into the ground at japan's fukushima nuclear plant site workers are currently inspecting hundreds of other storage tanks there tepco the company leading cleanup operations has warned the toxic liquid may have already reached the ocean japan's nuclear watchdog has classed as the most serious crisis to he'd be devastated area says the post tsunami meltdown in twenty eleven. and those who break it sounds national approach. they say geo politics is a lot like a schoolyard and while obama snubbing

a meeting with the president of russia to in theory punish him for the stone incident sounds kind of amateur that is the kind of stuff the girl you did when you're sixteen would do cancel date just to show you how much your feelings are hurt let's not mistake the canceled meeting with cutting off diplomatic relations which is the total rejection of any form of discussion with another country which really isn't a bold and possibly dangerous but it will message but obama did was more like a minor annoyance he knows that he will talk to putin again in the near future i mean how are they not going to talk at the next g. eight summit what is he just going to have to hide behind merkel the whole time and hope it works out or ducked behind the shrimp cocktail whatever here's a russian accent one could argue that to appease republicans he had to do something to look strong after the student but this grandstanding just comes across as silly passing something like a new jackson verda commandment yeah that is how you could show people that you're really mad even if your anger is irrational because still pretty much did the right thing but that's just my opinion.

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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. again as economies 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. policies have been successful. the rule 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 term 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 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 it and i think it's almost like selling the family silver. you can get it back. finance lead economic management has been they. and their religion of african rulers 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 would think that he of economy is growing. independent space. and resources to invest in the things that it needs to. 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 county prepares her grandchildren for school she is a primary school teacher a paga a small agricultural community in northeastern ghana.

was. this is the primary school every tree. he is a cost from there are two hundred ninety one children studying here while. i am. 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 lenna will you on especially when ever it is threatening to rain will have to run home and when did the trees sharing the same problem they would in the dead of snow. not been effective teaching and then in the course of the sun when it is hot. feel confortable to men and to check on will also 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 anomaly about three kilometers or four clinton's full put up will drink the water and when it's it is aborted to school there are no reasonable continuous for us to sauda. because of what they did a government will always complain and promise but nothing has been there. 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. 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 of the silty 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 oh my god i have decided to mobilize. to help me with from money to 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. lemon in that one classroom and the other classes sitting under trees them. yet. so 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 more a much this nor should. we all gather in one classroom 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 gammas 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 are you. are you are you. 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 that are like. the apple. we have my own interesting problem with both somebody. to suffer the. little war and they can provide that cheating with nutritionist but

. when the look on plane. and there is that ad. that's. this school and many. end of fund. education in. it's not enough to cover all just the. trees so that the good in some but redoing for me to. go to not only has promised to do it but definitely it come to help us. please please.

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lip . 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. that's it don't you know 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. 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 becomes the first big row column in africa the game its freedom. in

one 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.

brand and. 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 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 us and 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 on holy 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 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 qualify 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 policies we can say that over the last decade michael policies in most of ships are in 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 he has the same old varieties our grandfathers did. and they don't really give a good help just. women who brought to him 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. 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 well . that is one mil it costs ten cd for you. 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 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 the farm is actually i really hope it turns out. in the farmers some of the numbers i'm

not able to keep up with have to do it because they do look in the big rigs in the shop or then feed instils into this truck to support and so they have waste and then to support their children in that occasion. live. live.

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