{"id":398222,"date":"2017-07-05T08:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T08:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/05\/africa-must-improve-negotiating-skills-for-better-partnership-deals-bawumia\/"},"modified":"2017-07-05T08:59:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T08:59:14","slug":"africa-must-improve-negotiating-skills-for-better-partnership-deals-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/05\/africa-must-improve-negotiating-skills-for-better-partnership-deals-bawumia\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa must improve negotiating skills for better partnership deals &#8211; Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"400\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/xVIC-E-PRESIDENT-BAWUMIA.jpg.pagespeed.ic.XfN9ZHay1_.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"VIC E PRESIDENT BAWUMIA\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has challenged African countries to devise new negotiating skills in order to attract better partnership deals with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Africa Joint Research and Exchange Programme held under the theme \u201cBuilding Resilient Industries &amp; Infrastructure for Economic Transformation in Africa: The Role of China\u201d, at the Tang Palace Hotel, Accra on Tuesday, the Vice President said Ghana for that matter has adopted a new approach in dealing with partners rather than borrowing and depending on aid.<\/p>\n<p>He said the continent must leverage on its rich resources to attract the right investments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should add that because as a country, we have been so used to the old model of borrowing from China, many analysts have not understood this new paradigm,\u201d Dr Bawumia said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the 15-billion-dollar deal brokered with the Chinese government is not a loan but a joint venture proposal that will be beneficial to the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me state again that what we are proposing, and the agreements we have reached so far, are not new loans but rather joint venture proposals using less than 5% of our refined bauxite reserves. 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