The exception is that Mahama was seen as better on infrastructure: his campaign in 2016 made much of some of his landmark projects such as a new general hospital in the centre of Accra and the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange...
He would often refer to the ideas of Arthur Lewis a Nobel prize-winning economist and advisor to Ghana's founding President Kwame Nkrumah and Vijay Joshi an economics professor at Oxford with whom he maintained a lively correspondence...
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Armed with advanced degrees in economics from the universities of London and Stanford and a stint at the UN's Centre for Development Planning he returned to Ghana in 1961 to work in President Kwame Nkrumah's administration...
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This project has been on the drawing board since Kwame Nkrumah commissioned the Akosombo Dam in the 1960s...
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Vol 59 No 5 |
- BURKINA FASO
Only the glitzy Kwame Nkrumah Avenue and large luxury villas are guarded at night...
Ofori-Atta's Adwuma ('work') budget announced that the government would create 100 000 jobs for young people under new teaching agriculture sanitation and health and tax collection programmes – an uncanny echo of the Kwame Nkrumah-era Workers' Brigades (AC blog 12 December 2016 GHANA: Jobs for youth are top priority says victorious Akufo-Addo)...
Arthur Lewis took a hard line on closing down avenues for political patronage and corruption when he advised and later fell out with President Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana...
The state-owned industries have been in unremitting decline since the heyday of founding President Kwame Nkrumah who tried to recycle earnings from cocoa exports into state-backed textile pharmaceutical aluminium vehicle assembly and machine-parts industries...
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When asked whether this presupposes a mammoth state-backed industrialisation strategy – of the kind launched by founding President Kwame Nkrumah in the 1950s – Akufo-Addo emphasises 'commercial viability'...
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Vol 55 No 10 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
Beijing also championed the cause of non-alignment with its support for among others Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana Julius Nyerere in Tanzania and Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt...