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Kufuor’s gov’t messed up Ghana’s economics with redenomination

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  • Prof 8 years ago

    You are an illiterate, currency denomination has nothing to do with economic hardships if the economy is stable. Stability of the economy means prices of goods are stable. The stability will base on government spending. If th ...
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  • SARPONG 8 years ago

    Did that illiterate writer pass his jss mathematics? How do you get 60 pesewas for 6000 old Ghana cedis if 1000 old Ghana cedis is exchanged for one new Ghana Cedi?

    Now every illiterate fool can post a trash here in the na ...
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  • Ekow Essamuah 8 years ago

    This is what get when Goats and Cows are furnished with free laptops at the expense of the taxpayer. Even the incestuous Trokosi Pigs or KOOKOASE Black monkeys will not write such stupid stuff for publication. Only Savanna Co ...
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  • kb original 8 years ago

    Hello Sarpong, it looks like you have forgotten or you got it all wrong. The redomination was 10000 to 1 cedi. It was four zeros that were knocked off and not three zeros. The writer's analogy is correct. 6000 cedis should ha ...
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  • SARPONG 8 years ago

    "A gallon of petrol was selling for 6,000 cedis before the redenomination should have been sold for 60 pesewas after that but it stood as 6 cedis representing a 1,000,000% increase in prices"

    ABASS IS A LYING IDIOT. PETROL ...
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  • Nii Teiko 8 years ago

    Some JSS lessons in rates and percentages can save this illiterate goat from dying in his lunacy. You see insulting people is not good but when common sense is defy to produce such nonsense for consumption, one has no option, ...
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  • Kwabena Yeboah 8 years ago

    All redenomination exercises are not supposed to increase the true value of the currency without support of strong macroeconomics variables in the areas of balance of payments, inflation, unemployment rate, per capita GDP, b ...
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  • Kwabena Yeboah 8 years ago

    The truth is that, Mahama and more so African leaders do not have the common sense in governing a country. A small economy like Ghana cannot run a budget deficit year after year and not expect the cedi to suffer. Yes, Kufuor ...
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  • SARPONG 8 years ago

    What would the shaving of three zeros have done to stop the free fall of the cedi you want your readers to believe? For the two years that Npp was in power after the redomination, the Cedi lost 8% of its value.

    When Npp w ...
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  • Nii Teiko 8 years ago

    Ghana Is dying,not because of the cedi redenomination but for excessive borrowing, massive corruption and *mad* bad governance of the sitting incompetent president. Though i think enough education and brainstoming activities ...
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  • Kwabena Yeboah 8 years ago

    In having an intelligent discourse in the affairs of the nation, I expect intelligent people to keep their emotional vituperation in check before coming to the table. And if you do not have the intelligence to understand my p ...
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  • Kwabena Yeboah 8 years ago

    My friend Sarpong, you can accuse me of anything but not integrity. I am being paid to be objective in my assessment of issues/event - that is my training.

    Mr. Kufuor's second term of office came to a close in November 200 ...
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  • Brian Williams 8 years ago

    This article is not worth responding to. I will frown on it with flatulence indignation.

  • Charles Agbenu 8 years ago

    Writer sounds silly and elementary. He has served a Foolish stuff which the hungry fishes in the Keta sea and antelopes in Gonja forest will hurriedly reject.

  • Sir Ericus 8 years ago

    thank you very much for the information. I now know why. then prz Mahama has really done a good job.
    I will give my vote to JDM.

  • Osu Klottey 8 years ago

    Nonsense article,100 shouldn't not be called one million 1.000.000,where were we running to ? Nonsense foolish and foolish man Rawlings,

  • peter 8 years ago

    Smarttey Ameri bus branding wayome did not huv any negative effect on the economy rgt

  • koo 8 years ago

    Can someone pls explain the economics of devaluation of our cedi whatever is called

  • Kuduru jafo 8 years ago

    Your own John Mahama Defended the redenomination on TV3. He said he had no problems with it becos the Turkish govt had done the same with the Lira.Check the facts

  • Ebo Letrik 8 years ago

    This joker wants the Cedi to degrade to the level of the USELESS Zim currency!

  • samuel villa 8 years ago

    Npp and its unethical,unapatrotic,subversive, illiterate,ignorant foolishly ,criminally inductriminated by their devilmaster,Nana Addo,the certificate less laser,who should have been languishing in jail for impersonation. whe ...
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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8 years ago

    Fool

  • Prof. Issifu, UK 8 years ago

    Whoever wrote this article is damn illiterate with no understanding of economics! Ghanaweb needs to do a better job by screening articles! In fact from where I stand this article is garbage.

  • tiger 8 years ago

    Well said.i hope npp folks are paying attention.One Person responsible for this mess the former bog vice chair who claims today to be the best Economist mr pinksheet bawumia left a legacy that Prices in ghan are still quoted ...
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  • BlackMan5 8 years ago

    All you guys criticizing Abass are the idiots who have been blinded by their support for the NPP. Your criticisms show your ignorance in Economics. I'll be presenting a piece very soon detailing how Kuffour and his cohorts de ...
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  • Wofa Yaw Avudrinyaga..... avudortor m 8 years ago

    This is the BIGGEST joke of the Year.
    Rawling devalued the Cedi in 1984 from 2.75 to 30 for $1 and that was 1090. 9%. By 2000, the exchange rate was 7,000 to $1 and that was 254545.45%.
    Kuffour made the redenomination beca ...
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  • sam de sam 8 years ago

    keep quite this is the bare fact. ur lliteracy is nothing if u don't know this fact.

  • Obiba 1 8 years ago

    Please oh who is dat imbecile dat wrote dis useless n baseless article here for us to read, mr writer please if you don't have anything good to tell Ghanaians den please shut de hell up. U n ur incompetent Mahama has destroye ...
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