Economic growth relies on locally made goods - Minister

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• aenski 11 years ago

  Govt buying Italianand& China furniture for Parliament what do you expect?

  Govt buying Italianand& China furniture for Parliament what do you expect?

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• Spio 11 years ago

  Spio
  
  An opportunist who simply cannot tell the truth. A very selfish individual whose selfish nature overshadows what ever good there is in him.

  Spio
  
  An opportunist who simply cannot tell the truth. A very selfish individual whose selfish nature overshadows what ever good there is in him.

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• Real Ghanaian 11 years ago

  Mr Minister your message sounds convincing, but we are also apt to ask whether these are mere words. Patronizing local goods calls for an incubatory industrial base, along with tariffs designed to discourage importation of go ...
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  Mr Minister your message sounds convincing, but we are also apt to ask whether these are mere words. Patronizing local goods calls for an incubatory industrial base, along with tariffs designed to discourage importation of goods that can be locally sourced.
  
  So what were you-team "A" members of NDC, thinking when you sold off Ghana's industrial base, only to search for same years later ? We definitely have an uphill task ahead of us, getting our people to buy local. People's acquired taste for the past ten or so years, have been serviced by foreign goods. So how do we break that cycle ? If you try forcing it, smuggling will become a very lucrative activity to engage in. Moreover, you cannot flatly deny other countries exports into Ghana.
  
  In the end you- Mr Minister have to use your persuasive powers to convince people otherwise. You and a your cohorts must also lead by example this time around. We all remember very well how Ghana's educational system was intentionally re-designed for the better, yet failed woefully to achieve its intended objective. Leaders in power, sought solutions abroad for their children, while others who couldn't afford to do so, had to tough it out. Till date this matter has not been properly addressed. You would think the very people who benefited the most from the past educational largess would be considerate of the up and coming ones. It sure isn't the case as we see it today.

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• Kofi Thomas, Cape Coast 11 years ago

  You have no idea what development is all about!!! You keep talking none sense and you want to be a president
  
  The major issues are Energy, Water, and well organized and safe local transportation. Tax incentives will yield e ...
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  You have no idea what development is all about!!! You keep talking none sense and you want to be a president
  
  The major issues are Energy, Water, and well organized and safe local transportation. Tax incentives will yield effective telecommunication, marketing strategies, manufacturing leading other ancillary industries including but not limited to quality education/labour followed by research and development. Stop your stupidity and be very practical. You just another intellectual waste. Read pragmatic literature for development and bring to the table people who have the practical ideas and skills and stop that party stupidity

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• Paa Yao 11 years ago

  Kofi, I wish you are a producer, then you will understand Dr better. If items are produced and they are stuck on the shelves, how will your sister or brother be employed. You must be objective.

  Kofi, I wish you are a producer, then you will understand Dr better. If items are produced and they are stuck on the shelves, how will your sister or brother be employed. You must be objective.

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• VOICE OF RESON HERE 11 years ago

  AMERICA IMPORTS 90% OF GOODS FROM CHINA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD AND THEY ARE STILL SUPERPOWER IMPORTS CREATE JOBS AND OPPURTUNITYS, WE CANT CLOSE GHANA TO THE WORLD CHINA DID IT FOR YEARS AND GOT NOWHERE UNTILL THE OPEN T ...
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  AMERICA IMPORTS 90% OF GOODS FROM CHINA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD AND THEY ARE STILL SUPERPOWER IMPORTS CREATE JOBS AND OPPURTUNITYS, WE CANT CLOSE GHANA TO THE WORLD CHINA DID IT FOR YEARS AND GOT NOWHERE UNTILL THE OPEN THEIR MARKET TO THE ALL WORLD AND NOW THEY ENJOY THE HIGH STANDARD OF LIFE. MR MINISTER YOU ARE EITHER BLIND OR FOOLISH OR BOTH
  WISE UP OR GO HOME WE CANT AFFORD STUPIDITY IN GOVT

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• Paparrazi 11 years ago

  What Mr. Spio G is saying is very true. The economy grows by patronizing in your country's products. This is common sense, the government cannot just create job like manna coming from heaven, they need to create an embracing ...
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  What Mr. Spio G is saying is very true. The economy grows by patronizing in your country's products. This is common sense, the government cannot just create job like manna coming from heaven, they need to create an embracing business-friendly country with no "dumbo" to attract investors to come in and produce in Ghana.

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• daladam 11 years ago

  stoping imports wont create any Ghana jobs we lack the money to produce and this govt penelise anyone that have a busniss with huge tax and fees and vats that they don't dare to imose of forieners

  stoping imports wont create any Ghana jobs we lack the money to produce and this govt penelise anyone that have a busniss with huge tax and fees and vats that they don't dare to imose of forieners

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• Michael K. Tettevi 11 years ago

  Let us all learn to appreciate our own goods for many good reasons.

  Let us all learn to appreciate our own goods for many good reasons.

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• Abdul NaserSayibu 11 years ago

  Are you talking about made in Ghana goods when you went and bought funiture from china which can equally be made in Ghana.please come again.

  Are you talking about made in Ghana goods when you went and bought funiture from china which can equally be made in Ghana.please come again.

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• Abdul NaserSayibu 11 years ago

  Are you talking about made in Ghana goods when you went and bought funiture from china which can equally be made in Ghana.please come again.

  Are you talking about made in Ghana goods when you went and bought funiture from china which can equally be made in Ghana.please come again.

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• MENSA 11 years ago

  WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE?ARE YOU FOR REAL? IF YOU BAN IMPORTS SOON THE COUNTRY YOU BAN THEIR PRODUCTS WILL BAN OUR PRODUCTS IN THEIR COUNTRYS

  WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE?ARE YOU FOR REAL? IF YOU BAN IMPORTS SOON THE COUNTRY YOU BAN THEIR PRODUCTS WILL BAN OUR PRODUCTS IN THEIR COUNTRYS

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• osman 11 years ago

  Does your government believe in local goods before you decorated our Parliament like a Chinese restaurant?

  Does your government believe in local goods before you decorated our Parliament like a Chinese restaurant?

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• summy addo 11 years ago

  purchasing clerks and district officers of licensed cocoa buying companies are cheating cocoa farmers with illegally adjusted scales. cocoa farmers cry-out

  purchasing clerks and district officers of licensed cocoa buying companies are cheating cocoa farmers with illegally adjusted scales. cocoa farmers cry-out

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• Nii Okai 11 years ago

  If Ghanaians are to face facts then we can easily say that our local manufactureres ought to be adviced or be made to know that the finishing of their products raise a lot of questions of their seriousness and experiences of ...
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  If Ghanaians are to face facts then we can easily say that our local manufactureres ought to be adviced or be made to know that the finishing of their products raise a lot of questions of their seriousness and experiences of what they produce.
  
  In reality nobody would like to buy products that do not look nice in the eye. Of course I can understand why people will prefer foreign goods to our local ones. It is only because of the beauty that the products command.
  
  For example; a table manufactured by KPOGAS or any other company in Ghana can never be compared to the ones from outside. Sometimes ours will look stronger but commands no beauty.
  
  The question hanging here is how can we bring good finishing of our local goods in order to command beauty which is the money in today's world. Can our parliament be furnished with stuffs that commands no beauty that could upset visiting people from outside?
  
  We shall all like to patronise our local made goods but I think we have to learn how to criticise our local producers of their dirty lazy work which sack us from their products.
  
  Even if the companies have the machines to do the finishing of the products which can command the marketing of the products, the next thing will be where are the well TRAINED workers to man these machines.
  
  Which schools has our nation put there to train the personnels who may work to produce the good finishing products for our use.
  In China people are trained to come out with fine / good finishing products which attract the consumer even though it may not last long.
  
  The best solution is; it is time for us all to realise that there is a need for governments to attach importance to the training of our young people in the area of skilled work in the schools, and not to leave them to get trained by the 'roadside by force' and so called owners of workshops.
  
  Again the primitive mind set of only having interest in 4x4 SUVS of the Ghanaian leaders who can be found in all the political parties ought to be changed, so that they help build the economy by training our youth to help produce good finishing local goods that will influence both local and foreign markets/consumers.
  
  Who on earth will like to buy goods which are not well finished? Spio- Gabrah can answer us well.

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• MOREHOPE 11 years ago

  corrupt politicians.
  mr garbrah whr wer u whn d parliament hse was decorated by fake chinese product .
  God ll punish u all.

  corrupt politicians.
  mr garbrah whr wer u whn d parliament hse was decorated by fake chinese product .
  God ll punish u all.

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