{"id":1124547,"date":"2022-06-16T17:35:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/16\/kwesi-botchweys-damning-verdict-on-current-economy-video-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:35:55","slug":"kwesi-botchweys-damning-verdict-on-current-economy-video-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/16\/kwesi-botchweys-damning-verdict-on-current-economy-video-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwesi Botchwey\u2019s Damning Verdict On Current Economy &#8211; VIDEO | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Professor Kwesi Botchwey says Ghana\u2019s current economy is showing a semblance of what pertained in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>That period witnessed one of the hardest times  a near famine in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the launch of \u2018The Children of House No. D13, South Suntreso Kumasi\u2019, a book jointly authored by the Ahwois, Prof Botchwey said: \u201cSadly, we don\u2019t appear to have learnt our lessons [and] are moving now so perilously close to the edge of the precipice, where we were in the early 80s with our economy saddled with debts.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ca\">A Former Finance Minister, Kwesi Botchwey describes current economic challenges as reminiscent to 1980&#8217;s.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/3NewsGH?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#3NewsGH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q78wTfb93j\">pic.twitter.com\/q78wTfb93j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #3NewsGH (@3NewsGH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3NewsGH\/status\/1537163522752270341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: 3news.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of . Please report any inappropriate  to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Professor Kwesi Botchwey says Ghana\u2019s current economy is showing a semblance of what pertained in the early 1980s. That period witnessed one of the hardest times a near famine in the country. Speaking at the launch of \u2018The Children of House No. D13, South Suntreso Kumasi\u2019, a book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1124549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[17884,3431,1587,1963,3600,1753,1589,480],"class_list":["post-1124547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-botchweys","tag-current","tag-damning","tag-economy","tag-kwesi","tag-politics","tag-verdict","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}