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Is Ghana’s trade liberalization policy leading us towards an economic cliff?

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  • Kwame Antwi-Frempong. 10 years ago

    Great article. I sgree with most of the points you raised.

  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Good article but trade liberalization did not start 5 years agao. NPP did worse and some of us wrote against it. That is why I am rooting for the CPP to stem the tide and remove trade barriers with other African countries. We ...
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  • Azaato 10 years ago

    Brilliant!! This is the way comment on policy issues should structured, critique with along with the suggestions of needs to be done. Not empty rhetoric,,accusations and ethnic-bashing. Come again, Kwame Antwi-Frempong. I am ...
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  • micky 10 years ago

    Article starts by saying that five years ago businesses could borrow to epxand? In ghana? Five years ago Interest rates were not much different from what they are now. The finance/credit sector of the economy is weak. the spr ...
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  • Owura kofi 10 years ago

    Great article. Sadly Ghanaian politicians and officials seem dazed about how to develop the economy.

    NO country on this planet has embraced trade liberalization so much as Ghana. Every country have trade restrictions to pr ...
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  • T Acheampong 10 years ago

    An open economy such as Ghana’s over-liberalized trade regime without the necessary support mechanisms for local industries to compete at even the regional level will eventual spell doom and further exacerbate our precariou ...
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  • Kwadjoe, London 10 years ago

    The problem is not trade liberalisation, It ia what we do with trade as a country. We must trade our way into development. Some of our businessmen do not carry out their business by the book but use 'connections'.We cannot ha ...
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