{"id":1244899,"date":"2022-11-05T22:09:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T22:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/05\/ghanas-problem-is-about-raising-enough-domestic-resources-kwakye\/"},"modified":"2022-11-05T22:09:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T22:09:52","slug":"ghanas-problem-is-about-raising-enough-domestic-resources-kwakye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/05\/ghanas-problem-is-about-raising-enough-domestic-resources-kwakye\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s problem is about raising enough domestic resources &#8211; Kwakye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-269634\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"488\"  alt=\"\" title=\"JOHN-Kwakye-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1663231588_586_JOHN-Kwakye-1-696x488.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"488\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1663231588_586_JOHN-Kwakye-1-696x488.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"JOHN-Kwakye-1\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Director of Research at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Dr John Kwakye has said that Ghana\u2019s problems is about raising enough domestic resources for development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his view, Ghana has a lot of domestic resources for development but the managers of the economy do not utilize them prudently to grow the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs our problem not about raising enough domestic resources (which we have plenty of) and spending them prudently (which we don\u2019t do) to grow the economy and distribute the benefits more equitably through targeted social intervention programmes?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is rocket science about this?\u201d He asked<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur economic managers better get on with the business of solving our problems or else quit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IMF cannot solve our problems for us. It\u2019s even a national disgrace to let them do so? What\u2019s it that they know that we don\u2019t?\u201d Dr Kwakye tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is seeking a programme with the International Monetary Fund(IMF) for support.<\/p>\n<p>The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo0Addo says negotiations are going on well despite claims by some quarters that it is not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"td-block-row td-post-next-prev\">\n<div class=\"td-block-span6 td-post-prev-post\">\n<div class=\"td-post-next-prev-content\"><span>Previous article<\/span>Resign immediately \u2013 Kpebu tells Akufo-Addo, Bawumia, Ofori-Atta<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of Research at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Dr John Kwakye has said that Ghana\u2019s problems is about raising enough domestic resources for development. In his view, Ghana has a lot of domestic resources for development but the managers of the economy do not utilize them prudently to grow the economy. \u201cIs our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3309,250,1987,1818,7709,6489],"class_list":{"0":"post-1244899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-domestic","9":"tag-ghanas","10":"tag-kwakye","11":"tag-problem","12":"tag-raising","13":"tag-resources"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244899","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=1244899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}