Whilst cruising Ghanaweb , an excellent source of Ghanaian news, I found a great article called Our Ostrich Economy Is Not Ready To Fly. It's a bit pessimistic on Ghana's economic situation, but hot damn it's about time somebody had the courage to say something other that how great Ghana is and how it'll be a modern economy in ten years. As well as the country is doing (economic growth is at something like 5% per year), it simply has a lot further to go until it is ready to "take off" and can seriously consider itself "developed".
"...our economy has been readying for take off since 1957. For some reason, this take off either does not occur or ends up in all the wrong places when it secretly and invincibly occurs."
In Ghana, there is a large culture of deference and there is definitely a huge stigma on saying anything pessimistic about the state of affairs. It's about time we had a frank discussion on where Ghana really is heading.
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