Industrialist advocates 24-hour economy

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• Paapidi 8 years ago

  The Jute and shoe factories ran night shifts in Kumasi when I was a boy. Ghana was on its way when fools came to take over and ruined it.

  The Jute and shoe factories ran night shifts in Kumasi when I was a boy. Ghana was on its way when fools came to take over and ruined it.

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• The Great Americano 8 years ago

  Fix the power problems first. Yesterday the high school in my neighborhood was able to play American football in the night. How many teams can do that under DUMSOR in Ghana where stealing is the norm of the day. The ECG sho ...
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  Fix the power problems first. Yesterday the high school in my neighborhood was able to play American football in the night. How many teams can do that under DUMSOR in Ghana where stealing is the norm of the day. The ECG should be privatized to bring efficiency in the system. There are also too many thieves in Ghana and those who steal from the government or from the employers should be punished severely

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• Onipanua 8 years ago

  Yes the fools are back in the form of the NPP which is making loud noises and unattainable promises.They call themselves property owning capitalists.MY FOOT!!!

  Yes the fools are back in the form of the NPP which is making loud noises and unattainable promises.They call themselves property owning capitalists.MY FOOT!!!

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• Sly 8 years ago

  I hope Ghanaian workers will act discipline and stop demonstrations and striking whenever they want. In life you have to sow before you reap.

  I hope Ghanaian workers will act discipline and stop demonstrations and striking whenever they want. In life you have to sow before you reap.

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• Prince 8 years ago

  Sista, how do you run your business for 24 hours when ECG provides only 6 hours of electric power?

  Sista, how do you run your business for 24 hours when ECG provides only 6 hours of electric power?

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• Kojo 8 years ago

  Madam, there is no way you can achieve that without providing a proper infrastructure. Who wants to invest a huge amount of money to build a plant and endure constant dumsor, or flooding that makes roads unusable, just to nam ...
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  Madam, there is no way you can achieve that without providing a proper infrastructure. Who wants to invest a huge amount of money to build a plant and endure constant dumsor, or flooding that makes roads unusable, just to name a few.You should rather advice the Governments whether it's the NDC or NPP or whoever to tackle these challenges first. One should learn how to crawl before you start running

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• Toffey 8 years ago

  The issue of demand for the products is a significant factor. Of course, the products have to be sold when they are produced. If a market does not exist for the products, how can a 24-hour production scheme be sustained?

  The issue of demand for the products is a significant factor. Of course, the products have to be sold when they are produced. If a market does not exist for the products, how can a 24-hour production scheme be sustained?

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• KOFIGAH 8 years ago

  Very often decision makers who have never done any business forget about the fact that local demand, pricing and incomes are factors that cannot be separated.
  Historically, Ghana exported cocoa and imported sardines, tin mil ...
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  Very often decision makers who have never done any business forget about the fact that local demand, pricing and incomes are factors that cannot be separated.
  Historically, Ghana exported cocoa and imported sardines, tin milk, whisky etc. Because the cocoa was bought from the farm at incredibly low prices, the imported commodities were also priced at extremely low prices to, in a way, compensate cocao producers for their under-paid efforts. This is where the cycle of low income-low pricing was born. Today the phrase "TOO EXPENSIVE" is spoken by every Ghanaian at least 10 times daily.
  So the cycle goes on: Ghanaians don't buy what the produce because it is too expensive. The goods appear too expensive to Ghanaians because their income is extremely low, and because the investor must recover the dollars invested in buying other inputs.
  
  Fancy minimum wage at GHC5.00 per day. Then adjust for cost of:
  1) Return transport to work =GHC2.00
  2) Breakfast = GHC1.00
  3) Lunch =GHC1.00
  4) Dinner =GHC1.00
  How do you buy what you produce if you spend GHC5.00 to go to work so you can earn GHC5.00?
  Oh! by the way the worker has not yet paid for his rent and utilities.
  
  May be we need Nana Bonsam to help Ghanains solve this dilema.
  
  Producers, should therefore be looking for external demand for their 24-hour production routines.

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• Agyeman 8 years ago

  24 hour economy in a nation with not enough power,stinky + flood prone streets,alarming levels of armed robbery and poor health facitlies not to mention our woefully inadequate transport chains.Take your 24 hr economy to Keny ...
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  24 hour economy in a nation with not enough power,stinky + flood prone streets,alarming levels of armed robbery and poor health facitlies not to mention our woefully inadequate transport chains.Take your 24 hr economy to Kenya,Egypt,Rwanda or South Africa where they have a better environment.

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• vincent kwame offei 8 years ago

  This is a good point put forward. It
  would increase employment avenues as well.

  This is a good point put forward. It
  would increase employment avenues as well.

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• Mr Bond 8 years ago

  Power and dumsor problem so where and how business can run 24 hours to increase productivity without constant flow or full supply of power?Talking is just easy but is not cheap as what our useless president said he has fix du ...
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  Power and dumsor problem so where and how business can run 24 hours to increase productivity without constant flow or full supply of power?Talking is just easy but is not cheap as what our useless president said he has fix dumsor but steal sell ECG so that business mess collapse for good.

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