Is Ghana Meeting the MDG Goals?

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• Okumkom 12 years ago

  Your sentiments and apprehensions
  about meeting the MDGs are well founded. I ask, where in the world can we eliminate poverty? We can at best minimise it. Let the govt roll out a seven year development plan to meet the targ ...
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  Your sentiments and apprehensions
  about meeting the MDGs are well founded. I ask, where in the world can we eliminate poverty? We can at best minimise it. Let the govt roll out a seven year development plan to meet the targets. Also let us introduce free education and free health care like it is done in the welfare states of Canada or Scandinavian countries. Let us create a middle class in Ghana through deliberate social and economic engineering such as women and youth empowerment and liberalism

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• Kojo T 12 years ago

  Hi I know PKM has already dissected you. Sometimes you behave like the "booklong" Ghanaian who have let us down . Just do not talk about the " best Pres that never was" Lance armstrong has confessed, when is he going to come ...
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  Hi I know PKM has already dissected you. Sometimes you behave like the "booklong" Ghanaian who have let us down . Just do not talk about the " best Pres that never was" Lance armstrong has confessed, when is he going to come out of the closet ?Ghana needs visionary leadership. Nana is not one

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• MARCUS AMPADU 12 years ago

  Of the 8 MDG'S, the one we are least likely to meet is MDG 7 - Ensuring Environmental Sustainability by 2015.
  
  Yes, we have made some effort to expand access to safe potable water by increasing the proportion of our rural p ...
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  Of the 8 MDG'S, the one we are least likely to meet is MDG 7 - Ensuring Environmental Sustainability by 2015.
  
  Yes, we have made some effort to expand access to safe potable water by increasing the proportion of our rural population with access to safe drinking water, and gradually improving the management of our water resources.
  But an unacceptably high percentage of our 24 million compatriots still lack basic sanitation, meaning we are most likely not going to be able to meet this target within the two years left.
  
  We haven't been impressive, if not forthright, in integrating sustainable development into our national policies and programmes. We have policy makers, politicians, and pundits who are basically ecoilliterate, with practically little knowledge of ecology and environmental science. With such lack of environmental awareness, it is not surprising that our land is still being degraded, little bit of what is left of our once pristine forests are bring lost, with some of our unique species becoming endangered, and extinct. We continue to defile our aquatic ecosystems, degrade our land through poor waste management, and increasingly pollute our air.
  
  How many of our rulers, our citizens, or folks at this forum are bothered by the fact that carbon emissions continue to change the environment we live in?
  
  Creating climate-resilient and low-carbon development paths was not part of the recent elections debate because environmental sustainability is not a development imperative for us right now.
  It better be MDG or no MDG!

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• Dr. Allotey Jones 12 years ago

  It requires leadership. Our leaders must step up and organize mass education programmes and campaigns targeting each of the 8 MDG's.
  Lead people by finding ways to motivate all and sundry to take action right away without pr ...
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  It requires leadership. Our leaders must step up and organize mass education programmes and campaigns targeting each of the 8 MDG's.
  Lead people by finding ways to motivate all and sundry to take action right away without procrastination.

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

  Yes Marcus, we in LEDCs live off the environment but maintain no balance in exploiting resources. I think the MNCs are the worst culprits, especially in mining.

  Yes Marcus, we in LEDCs live off the environment but maintain no balance in exploiting resources. I think the MNCs are the worst culprits, especially in mining.

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• MARCUS AMPADU 12 years ago

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

  Yes Marcus, we in LEDCs live off the environment but maintain no balance in exploiting resources. I think the MNCs are the worst culprits, especially in mining.

  Yes Marcus, we in LEDCs live off the environment but maintain no balance in exploiting resources. I think the MNCs are the worst culprits, especially in mining.

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• Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

  Cousin, you've become so predictable its pathetic reading any article you churn out. This one reads like the previous ones you've submitted, why?
  
  All your articles look familiar because they're nothing but idle talk aroun ...
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  Cousin, you've become so predictable its pathetic reading any article you churn out. This one reads like the previous ones you've submitted, why?
  
  All your articles look familiar because they're nothing but idle talk around a series of acronyms and list I've dubbed "Listology". You, my beloved cousin, are a master of listology.
  
  You keep recycling the same list about the talk with no analysis. I am really getting tired of reading you. Sooner or later I'll have nothing to read because I can't read Ahoofe, Bokor or any of the dumb voices that shout here daily.
  
  Bring new material this year else I'll quit reading you altogether. May this serve as a warning, and I'll report you to the good folks at our hometown that you've taken to the bottle and need to be rescued.
  
  Will you promise to refrain from this list:
  
  PAYE and VAT taxes;
  MDG
  BOT
  GDP
  Simon Kuznets, Peter Hinchcliffe, Psarchalopoulos, Presidents Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  PPP
  MEW
  HSI
  HDI
  PTA
  MCA
  MCC
  PCI
  SNIT
  SSSS
  OSA
  MDG's
  
  Cousin, I'm really disappointed. Up your game a little bit and tell us something we don't already know. Offer us analysis from your left brain loaded with celebral insight.
  
  You were pathetically urging President Mahama to embark on major infrastructural projects because US President Hoover built the Hoover Dam.
  
  Such illiterate talk is so disappointing because I know you're somewhat erudite.
  
  Do you knows there was a big controversy surrounding the Hoover Dam initiative during the Depression era and Hoover almost lost the election? Here you're poor Mahama who sstoops at the behest of the Chinese and the scent of loans to do what?
  
  Too much text book economic theory has ruined your education. Return to the real world and observe things from a thinking person's perspective.
  
  Saaluute, from forehead to waist, baaam.

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• Benoni 12 years ago

  I s that not a crazy man?

  I s that not a crazy man?

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• Paul Amuna 12 years ago

  Kwesi, once again you have touched on an important subject of national and global importance although the first few paragraphs could have been conveniently left out of the piece.
  
  Of all the WHO regions, Africa is the one ...
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  Kwesi, once again you have touched on an important subject of national and global importance although the first few paragraphs could have been conveniently left out of the piece.
  
  Of all the WHO regions, Africa is the one region making the least progress towards meeting the MDGs. As you know, the UN is already discussing the "POST-MDG 2015 AGENDA" since it is clear the goals are unlikely to be met by many of our countries. Incidentally Ghana is ONE country in Africa which according to statistics, has made good progress in some key indicators, but I agree with you that we all have a lot to do to support our national development and meeting MDG targets is one such marker of developmental progress.
  
  I believe quite a number of OSAs are already supporting their alma maters in respect of equipment etc but more can and should be done. Government has a role and quite frankly education and training to build capacity of the workforce especially is key, not to talk of improved agriculture and food security. This is a national debate which I hope will go beyond this forum.

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• Adu opoku 12 years ago

  Hope the is reading this.

  Hope the is reading this.

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• nfojo.blogspot.com/ 12 years ago

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• Joachim Mensah 11 years ago

  This ia a good piece of work.Well dome

  This ia a good piece of work.Well dome

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