{"id":54241,"date":"2023-04-04T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/04\/3business-summit-we-dont-plan-we-spend-any-how-during-emergencies-ben-boakye\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T15:30:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:30:25","slug":"3business-summit-we-dont-plan-we-spend-any-how-during-emergencies-ben-boakye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/04\/3business-summit-we-dont-plan-we-spend-any-how-during-emergencies-ben-boakye\/","title":{"rendered":"3business Summit: We don&#8217;t plan, we spend any how during emergencies &#8211; Ben Boakye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\"  alt=\"\" title=\"ben-boakye\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ben-boakye.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ben-boakye.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"ben-boakye\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) Ben Boakye has accused governments of Ghana of not planning for emergencies in their budgets and hence spend anyhow during difficult times<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 3Business Economic Sustainability Summit held in Accra on Tuesday, April 4, he said \u201cwe are spending far more than we generate as a country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t spend 52 percent more than your revenue and expect some magic, we don\u2019t plan for emergencies, some of the institutions are so inefficient, we drain the public purse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He urged all stakeholders to track government behavior when it comes to revenue utilization.<\/p>\n<p>A professor at the University of Ghana Godfred Bopkin for his part said seventy percent of the Government\u2019s total revenue goes into debt servicing.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves very little for other spending, he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/3news.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/facebook-minimal.jpg\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-service=\"facebook\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element cmplz-iframe cmplz-iframe-styles cmplz-no-video \" data-cmplz-target=\"src\" data-src-cmplz=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.facebook.com%2FTV3GH%2Fvideos%2F901309570978749%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/3news.com\/3business-summit-we-dont-plan-we-spend-any-how-during-emergencies-ben-boakye\/about:blank\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>he said 70 percent of all our domestic revenue goes to debt servicing, it leaves very little space for growth and enhances spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IMF debt sustainability concluded that our debt is unsustainable and the meant that we needed to take steps to restructure our debts. what does supposed to mean . 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