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. successful. the role 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 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 crises 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 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 led economic management has been they. and their religion of african rulers and. 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 so you wouldn't you would think that if

a call is growing it has greater independence space. and resources to invest in the things that it needs to you know does form 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. all over. 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. 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 effect if teaching and leno on 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 snow. not being effective teaching and then in the course of the sun when it is hot that you reckon i'll feel confortable to listen and to check on will also feel comfortable to teach. me.

no toilets no play materials. and other infrastructure. so i decided to press for f.e.c. into school and i'm not a problem as what the problem. we don't have what. so anomalous about three kilometers off or clinton's four put up will drink the water and when it's voted there are no reasonable quentin is for us to saudi. because of what they did a government will always complain and promise but nothing has been. 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. won i. was i have decided 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. am now some of the. linen and that one plus one and the other classes sitting under trees. yet. so whenever it is raining even if it is threaten to rain would dismiss the. drive it is forms indeed. and then when it is more i'm much this nor should. we all got that 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

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. are 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. 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 christian problem because somebody. who did this tattoo suffered a. little war and they can provide that chilling with nutritious food. when the mullah complain. and there is that ad. that's. a mini. and if funds. for education. it's not enough to cover all this the screws that on the trees so that the good in some but you do it for me it was off my cotton and the only has promised to do it but definitely it come to have it's.

been all the way out of this sun has to go there looking people we've been here enough for two years you know jason assad has to go it's not going to happen if it was it was going to happen it would have happened he has the upper hand he's not he's not losing this war of course he doesn't have control of the entire part of the entire solving borders of syria and that's why i brought up geneva two that is one way to move this process forward because i agree with sunny we will have a perpetual stalemate here the man wants to show up in geneva who's he going to talk to i think the geneva conference will be stillborn if the united states and its allies goes in with the precondition of regime change of assad leaving power i think they need to back off of that that red line and look at a way to pursue new elections fair elections and obama can claim that he has been

tracking the assad regime by quarantining and removing and destroying his chemical weapon so he can claim that political victory and then move toward stability in the country. proximately sixteen percent as you imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. but they are territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths.

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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. or 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 gathered all

the celebration marking their day of freedom from colonialism what was once the gold coast of 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 have becomes the first big row column 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 dry maze battle plan has prayer. and drama rama and brandon play. a big old 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. that governmental general election. unilaterally. decided not to be 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'm 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 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 thousand 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 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 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 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 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. 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 fertilizers but now they have

stopped. more 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 isn't enough food for the community. so have the periods of hunger along that is when the food prices hit the roof. that is one mil it costs ten cd for euro 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 essential extension services they all come back and all those things affect everything becomes the market price the small farmer kind of buy those things they can't produce as well so most of the farm is actually really home picked himself. some of them not. because they'd look in the blue ribbon and then feed into a structure to support and so they have ways and then to support their children in that occasion. choose your language. of holy week you would know if you're going to. come up. with the consensus to. choose the opinions that you think

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