{"id":1222162,"date":"2022-10-12T08:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T08:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/long-term-national-development-plan-needed-gasti\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T08:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T08:31:58","slug":"long-term-national-development-plan-needed-gasti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/long-term-national-development-plan-needed-gasti\/","title":{"rendered":"Long term national development plan needed &#8211; Gasti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\"  alt=\"\" title=\"John-Gatsi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/John-Gatsi.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/John-Gatsi.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"John-Gatsi\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Dean of the Business School at the University of Cape Coast, Professor John Gatsi has called for the establishment of a long national development plan for the country.<\/p>\n<p>In his view, the country lacks such a plan hence the development challenges facing the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the New Day show on TV3, Prof Gasti indicated that the current challenges facing the country are the result of leadership problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point is about an inclusive long term national development plan. That is what we have failed to appreciate,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>Another Economist who also spoke on the same show, Dr Badu Sakordie indicated that this is the time President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has to take bold decisions because he has nothing to lose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is the time that they should show leadership, they showed it during covid time and we appreciated. They should engage stakeholders, GUTA and others, sit with them and<\/p>\n<p>Hew added \u201cWe must have a plan and execute the plan. we need the selfless leader to do that and I belive President Akufo-Addo can do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can do it, this is the time to do it, this is the time to take some of the bold decisions because he has nothing to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the ongoing engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) he said Ghana needs the support from the Fund but beyond that, the country needs to undertake reforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need the IMF programme. Beyond that we must be serious as a country, reform our policies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean of the Business School at the University of Cape Coast, Professor John Gatsi has called for the establishment of a long national development plan for the country. In his view, the country lacks such a plan hence the development challenges facing the country. Speaking on the New Day show on TV3, Prof Gasti indicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1213143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[662,27283,2406,1093,4085,2330,4722],"class_list":["post-1222162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-development","tag-gasti","tag-long","tag-national","tag-needed","tag-plan","tag-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222162","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=1222162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}