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nominal GDP. However, at that debt level, even though in practice it is difficult to determine what a “safe” debt level, the macroeconomic environment points to the fact that our fiscal space (maximum debt threshold) is almost running out. Therefore Ghana will be faced with severe debt sustainability risk with the rising debt levels. With the slow real GDP growth, low revenues and high interest rates, we cannot allow the debt ratio to reduce progressively through growth neither paying it down…

On the bus ride to our hotel in Accra, one of Africa’s safest capital cities, all of our eyes were wide open to take in all of the sights (Briggs 121). There were Ghanaian flags everywhere, and I began to wonder if this was the result of the upcoming inauguration of the new president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Saturday, January 7th or if the country was merely beaming with pride. I would be surprised to return to my hometown and see American flags displayed everywhere; instead, some…

It’s the year of 1352 and I’m entering the Mali Kingdom south of Ghana. As I enter the city of Timbuktu, I admire the exceptional mosques and universities surrounding me. Others, Muslim judges, doctors, religious leaders, and scholars alike share this fascination. This crucial city of this Empire came to be because of Mansa Musa. First of all, Mali’s first significant leader was Sundiata, who came to be by defeating a harsh leader. He was given title mansa, which was the equivalent of an…

Padmore E. Agbemabiese, author of “Are the Schools We Have in Ghana the Schools We Need in Ghana?”, was born in the Volta Region of Ghana. He is a scholar and poet, currently lecturing at The Ohio State University, in African American and African Studies. His article was originally published in the Ghanaian Times, in Accra, Ghana. The main argument that Agbemabiese presents is that the schools provided and supported by western powers in Ghana lack the cultural experience of their communities,…

2016) that can be retrieved from these defective devices. While this incentive does not currently outweigh the expenditures occured for processing in developed countries, developing countries can be drawn to it instead. This why Agbogbloshie area of Ghana, can be considered “one of the largest informal e-waste dumping and processing sites in Africa--about 215,000 tons of secondhand consumer electronics...“ (Heacock et al., 2016). Informal is the key word in this previous statement. Such process…

Cocoa Child Labor in Ghana In Ghana, African-American children, ages five to seventeen, are in poverty because cocoa is a cash crop so human traffickers need slaves to harvest and plant it. As a result, the human traffickers easily manipulate the children of Ghana to work for them is because they are in severe poverty and they start working at a young age to try to support their family. On the other hand, other children are ¨sold¨ to the human traffickers by their own relatives because they…

educational systems gave me two different views about education. Ghana is not as developed as America and so their educational system is not as developed in some places, especially in the villages. One of the transformative educational experiences that continue to shape me up-in the…

Poisonous Electronics in Ghana When I first think of Africa the word desert comes to mind. After reading books and learning about Africa in core discussions I have gained so much more insight as to what Africa is all about. Africa is a very diverse continent with many cultures and a very large population. Although there are many countries in Africa, I will be focusing on a country in Western Africa, Ghana. Many are unaware of the electronic wastelands in Ghana, tons of used appliances are being…

Document 2 it states, “The Arab traders of this region wanted gold as much as Wangara wanted salt, but both had to pass through Ghana to trade…It possessed many of the characteristics of powerful nations today wealth based on trade…income derived from taxes.” This shows that Ghana was between two regions that wanted to trade gold and salt, but had to pass Ghana. Therefore, the Ghana empire grew wealthy by taxing the two regions that were trading which each other. A percentage of salt and gold…

The life of a family living in Ghana is quite different as compared to the one in the United States, at the same time, girls in their teens to young adults will have a different life in two different places. Politically there are so many factors when putting in place, there is the possibility of having a fruitful life of a child or a girl trained or raised in the United States as compared to Ghana. At the same time within the borders of the United States, a girl…