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Only 5.7% Ghanaians are unemployed

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  • Swapna Guduru 9 years ago

    He who believes this cooked up stats would soon buy the Brooklyn Bridge!

  • MR OBJECTIVE 9 years ago

    "abordam"(maddness)-group.EVEN AMERICA UNEMPLOYMENT IS IN-BETWEEN 5/10%,how much non-developing country like Ghana?GO AND TELL PEOPLE IN HOLES NOT TO US,you mad groups of NDC.

  • AYE BOAFO 9 years ago

    The only people employed in Ghana are the AYIGBE people.Only the settler and coveter EWE will say this.One day the people will stand up and react.

  • Daniella 9 years ago

    NDC BASTARD STATISTICIAN RATHER

  • Humanity 9 years ago

    Yes, unbelievable. I've just read with astonishment! How can Ghana have only 5.7% unemployed, and yet have such "abject poverty".
    I think what they are doing is, playing with numbers/figures, for instance, if my mother sells ...
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  • mr amin. 9 years ago

    this is a big lie. there is large numbers of ghainains who are unemployed.over 50%, weak currency creats unemployment
    secondly why should govt iindex import duties in dollers? wont that make the goods expensive n kill busi ...
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  • ASEM 9 years ago

    KEEP QUIET, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY GHANAIANS LIVE JUST IN ACCRA, LEFT ALONE THE WHOLE GHANA. WHERE DO THOSE WHOM YOU CONSIDER TO BE EMPLOYED WORK AND WHERE DO THEY LIVE IN GHANA?

  • SEIDU JOHNSON GERMANY 9 years ago

    YOU CAN ONLY TELL GHANAIANS THAT 5.7% EMPLOYED AND 94.3% ARE UNEMPLOYED. LOOK AT YOUR OWN HOUSE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE EMPLOYED OVERTHERE? WHO EMPLOYED THOSE 94.3%? THIS IS SILLY TALK STOP FOOLING YOURSELF HARUNA

  • Ackah Blay, Axim 9 years ago

    when will these people begin telling Ghanaian the truth. lies lies lies everywhere

  • Earl jones 9 years ago

    Where can I get the full report? Perhaps a link to a PDF version?

  • AMA 9 years ago

    LIARS! INCOMPETENT PEOPLE! HOW WAS THE SURVEY DONE? NOBODY BELIEVES THEM! LYING IS THEIR HALLMARK! TWEAAAAAAAA! APUUUUUUU!

  • ZoRRo 9 years ago

    Stop cooking these stupid statistics for political reasons; who are you fooling ? Even most of our donors like USA have more than 5% unemployed. Our figure is closer to 25% unemployed, erase the 2, like we did in class one, ...
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  • Kwaame 9 years ago

    These guys are nuts. He just misread 52.0% for 5.2%.

  • HIM 9 years ago

    That is a lot of people/bread winners- with their dependants out there struggling without jobs- this is not called ONLY Mr. Minister

  • Dans 9 years ago

    Guys, you have several forms of employment. If you are doing something that brings you money, whether you like it or not, it is employment. There are underemployment figures, consider them carefully. You need to question thei ...
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  • DAN 9 years ago

    sure they are different types and names but anything different than full time your not working everyday...full time is America is anything over 40 hours(usually 5-8 hour days) most companies you have to work 40 hours to have ...
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  • Kill Corruption! 9 years ago

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    Christine Lagarde: Another Corrupt Judgment debt!!!

  • John Allotei 9 years ago

    Ghanaian academics and intellectuals are too mediocre that when the facts are staring at them they rush to their white man books and refuse to discern the true facts they are immersed in.

    Ghana's unemployed population is a ...
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  • Ben 9 years ago

    Low unemployment but economic hardships what are mismatch. Go t the embassies and check how many people intend leaving the country.

  • GHANABA 9 years ago

    Nkwaseasem

  • Adelaide guy(Shanton) 9 years ago

    Yes you are right, the idiot is just playing with numbers and because he knew average Ghanaians are illiterates so to say they will buy such bullshit!!!

  • Adelaide guy(Shanton) 9 years ago

    May be the idiot is counting selling pure water, dog chains, mobile phone credits on the street as employment. Only Ghana, how do they collect data? When you don't even have any system of collecting data for the dead

  • Thomas 9 years ago

    Big liar. Who told this idiot. Fools don,t play with our anger else fire go burn you all.

  • EZEKIEL 9 years ago

    IF SO, why can't we generate enough capital to construct MORE KVIPs ???
    A dreamer and a JOKER of a minister!!!!

  • USMAN 9 years ago

    According to the story, "The survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) said youth unemployment rate was 5.5 percent of which females represent 5.7 percent and males, 5.2 percent."
    I am not a university graduate ...
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  • Boss 9 years ago

    I do not doubt this number. Most employment in Ghana is informal. In that sense kayayoos, shoe shine boys, dog chain sellers etc etc would all be classified as employed.

  • amonana 9 years ago

    WHAT? ATWAAAAA. Which means Ghana has lower unemployment than USA? Eeeiii Asem Nie

  • DAN 9 years ago

    they got numbers backwards..90% un-employed!

  • DAN 9 years ago

    idiot propaganda...Everybody knows they are no jobs for college or high school grads...much less anybody else

  • NANA 9 years ago

    Nobody knows where the so called gurus get their figures from. Even a blind man can truly see government's figures are wrong. Government always cooks the books because of politics. May be they are talking about only Accra.

  • Boobsicles 9 years ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!