From Tin Tomatoes to Toilet Rolls: Ghana's costly import bill revealed

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• Owens. 12 months ago

  Can the incoming government curb this insatiable demand for importation of items that can easily be import substituted? For some Ghanaian business people, all they know is import licence to import and not make any attempt at ...
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  Can the incoming government curb this insatiable demand for importation of items that can easily be import substituted? For some Ghanaian business people, all they know is import licence to import and not make any attempt at production. Most of these importers are politically connected and financiers of a political party so they lobby intensively to import these non essential items. When there is pressure on the Cedi exchange rate, know that we're our own enemies.

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• Kweku Tsin 12 months ago

  What i think needs to happen is to compile a yearly list of things that we can grow/produce. Give businesses tax breaks to produce these products. I thinks businesses will take advatage of that, there by saving the coutry for ...
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  What i think needs to happen is to compile a yearly list of things that we can grow/produce. Give businesses tax breaks to produce these products. I thinks businesses will take advatage of that, there by saving the coutry foreign exchange.

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• atia 12 months ago

  Until Ghana is able to supply itself with basic commodities such rice, tomatoes and rest, our Cedis will forever be weaker to all other currencies regardless of whether NPP or NDC is power!!!!!!!

  Until Ghana is able to supply itself with basic commodities such rice, tomatoes and rest, our Cedis will forever be weaker to all other currencies regardless of whether NPP or NDC is power!!!!!!!

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• Wofa 12 months ago

  Yes youareperfectly right?

  Yes youareperfectly right?

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• A-Z 12 months ago

  True!

  True!

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• GOOD FATHER 12 months ago

  BAND ALL THIS FOREIGHN FOOD AND EAT GHANA FOOD WITH GOOD BIO ENERGY

  BAND ALL THIS FOREIGHN FOOD AND EAT GHANA FOOD WITH GOOD BIO ENERGY

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• Wise Man. 12 months ago

  We Ghanians are very lazy folks so we always dosent want to invest in a long term project rather than buy and sell to make quick money no matter what product so far as they will end money they don't think about the Country.

  We Ghanians are very lazy folks so we always dosent want to invest in a long term project rather than buy and sell to make quick money no matter what product so far as they will end money they don't think about the Country.

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• Tamale North Boy 12 months ago

  GUTA supported JM and NDC to continue with this policy. Burkina Faso has started processing tomatoes into cans to export to Ghana and earn more

  GUTA supported JM and NDC to continue with this policy. Burkina Faso has started processing tomatoes into cans to export to Ghana and earn more

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• Adams 12 months ago

  Why does the government use our hard earned foreign currency to import non essential items? Are our leaders serious about implementing actionable solutions to turn the economy around?

  Why does the government use our hard earned foreign currency to import non essential items? Are our leaders serious about implementing actionable solutions to turn the economy around?

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• Streatham 12 months ago

  It's not the government that buying foreign goods it's the people that keep buying foreign goods. The government can give incentives lower taxes, cheap government loans, grants transport etc and more advertising of Ghanian pr ...
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  It's not the government that buying foreign goods it's the people that keep buying foreign goods. The government can give incentives lower taxes, cheap government loans, grants transport etc and more advertising of Ghanian products. Advertising is more important than people realises.

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• Ogyaooo ogya 12 months ago

  So called wise man ,bear in mind that the nature of our farming system does not encourage maximum production to meet the growing population. The govt who borrow money and share and the youth who are eager to work who is lazy/

  So called wise man ,bear in mind that the nature of our farming system does not encourage maximum production to meet the growing population. The govt who borrow money and share and the youth who are eager to work who is lazy/

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• Ogyaooo ogya 12 months ago

  The free shs policies etc are ok but also useless. Why a farmer can't afford his or her children is it not due to economic, so if a farmer has enveroment to produce maximum goods can't he afford. So what is solution now.

  The free shs policies etc are ok but also useless. Why a farmer can't afford his or her children is it not due to economic, so if a farmer has enveroment to produce maximum goods can't he afford. So what is solution now.

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