Akufo Addo’s $1M largesse and one factory concept will enhance human development

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Moses 8 years ago

We thank President Akufo Addo.

We thank President Akufo Addo.
Justice 8 years ago

Your scholastic piece failed to outline why and how Akufo Addo's $1 M largesse and one factory was going to improve life. You deviated and outlined UN conventions and needless references and theories with repetitive arguments ...
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Your scholastic piece failed to outline why and how Akufo Addo's $1 M largesse and one factory was going to improve life. You deviated and outlined UN conventions and needless references and theories with repetitive arguments. Your references were in effect more in volume than the main article in greater scheme of things (to borrow your own words).

Whilst you had an intention to show your academic abilities and writing skills you failed to tackle the main topic. You spend too much time trying too hard to define human development but failed to link it Akufo Addo's project and how it was going to improve human development index.

Your literature review was wrongly skewed and basically failed to answer your topic and again how it would improve the lives of Ghanaians.

I wonder what you were trying to do with this article. You merely wrote what is human development; its enactment and history and did not answer the question you posed.

3/10 final score.
Phil 8 years ago

Wicked Professor.

Wicked Professor.
HolyGhost 8 years ago

Living wage is the answer, if incase akufo addo is able to fulfil his promise by building factories in every district which I doubt, will the workers be paid a living wage or the same old slave wage.

Living wage is the answer, if incase akufo addo is able to fulfil his promise by building factories in every district which I doubt, will the workers be paid a living wage or the same old slave wage.
Idiot Contemnor Mugabe 8 years ago

Was the previous Mahama government paying living or slave wage?

Was the previous Mahama government paying living or slave wage?
Kodzo 8 years ago

Idiot contemnor

Look forward, stop looking backwards. This is a new government. All Ghanaians expect and want Akufo-Addo to succeed.

From now on, we shall judge the new government on its merits not on what the old gove ...
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Idiot contemnor

Look forward, stop looking backwards. This is a new government. All Ghanaians expect and want Akufo-Addo to succeed.

From now on, we shall judge the new government on its merits not on what the old government failed to do. It won't be enough for us to say Mahama did worse. We want to see manifestly good things, not things that were only marginally better than the old order.
Idiot Contemnor Mugabe 8 years ago

Is juxtaposition of records not the measure of Ghanaian politics? What has changed now?

Is juxtaposition of records not the measure of Ghanaian politics? What has changed now?
Kodzo 8 years ago

We cannot say that a government is doing well only because it is doing better than the previous government. If the previous govt was at -3, we should not be satisfied with the new govt at -2 or -1. We will want the new govt t ...
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We cannot say that a government is doing well only because it is doing better than the previous government. If the previous govt was at -3, we should not be satisfied with the new govt at -2 or -1. We will want the new govt to be at +2 or +3. That is still juxtaposing of records but at a higher level.

So we shouldn't just be satisfied with the new govt improving the dumsor situation. We want it to, perhaps, remove it and set a huge distance between it and the previous government.

Don't you want that, Mugabe?
$AINT GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 8 years ago

SO WHEN WILL FREE SCH, FREE FEEDING BEGIN. CHALE, WE DEY HUNG FOR HERE OOO...

SO WHEN WILL FREE SCH, FREE FEEDING BEGIN. CHALE, WE DEY HUNG FOR HERE OOO...
Kojo T 8 years ago

If under Mahama it was a slave wage then , change is required.By the way was the single spine enacted by Kufour and implemented by NDC part of the slave wage?

If under Mahama it was a slave wage then , change is required.By the way was the single spine enacted by Kufour and implemented by NDC part of the slave wage?

Kodzo 8 years ago

I read the piece and the author did not say one word on how $1 million and one factory concept will enhance human development. Not one word.

Instead, the article tried hard to tell us what others have defined us human deve ...
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I read the piece and the author did not say one word on how $1 million and one factory concept will enhance human development. Not one word.

Instead, the article tried hard to tell us what others have defined us human development. Just definitions and definitions and online quotations.

And, yes, the reference list is more than the substantive contribution of the author. Perhaps the author is afraid that people will accuse him of plagiarism but the article remains basically a cut and paste job even if the cuts were properly credited.

Justice, your 3/10 score is generous...
Idiot Contemnor Mugabe 8 years ago

I have also read the article a few times and my critical assessment mastery tells me that the author sets out to align NPP's policies to human right approach to development.

The author goes ahead and delineates the accepta ...
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I have also read the article a few times and my critical assessment mastery tells me that the author sets out to align NPP's policies to human right approach to development.

The author goes ahead and delineates the acceptations of human rights approach to development and shows how the international community embraces the approach.

Of course, you may have a point that some of the citations and references were extraneous. But then again, you cannot dismiss the author's knowledge on the subject anyhow.
Kodzo 8 years ago

The author expends too much effort in trying to tell us about human development. But the argument in the development field is not so much about disagreements about that. Everybody wants development to touch each individual on ...
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The author expends too much effort in trying to tell us about human development. But the argument in the development field is not so much about disagreements about that. Everybody wants development to touch each individual on a human level.

The question is HOW to achieve that. That is where the writer woefully failed. After proclaiming in the title that two of Akufo-Addo's proposed measures will achieve that, he failed to tell us HOW THOSE MEASURES WILL ACHIEVE THE STATED HUMAN DEVELOPMENT GOALS. The more critical thing is the dynamics of the change that 1 million and one factory will bring about.

Mugabe, to talk about your juxtaposition scenario, even the previous government also knew they had to enhance human development according to the definitions put here by Badu. But could the policies they adopted do it, and if not, why so? Which brings us to the question why 1 million and one factory will achieve the goals that previous policies could not achieve. The present writer said nothing about such important things. I guess he probably does not know and was more interested, as is his wont, in partisan politics - one party good, another party bad!
Idiot Contemnor Mugabe 8 years ago

"But the argument in the development field is not so much about disagreements
about that. Everybody wants development to touch each individual on a human level.

The question is HOW to achieve that. That is where the write ...
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"But the argument in the development field is not so much about disagreements
about that. Everybody wants development to touch each individual on a human level.

The question is HOW to achieve that. That is where the writer woefully failed."

Don't you think the one million dollars per constituency will mollify the mess created by Mahama's coarse administration?

Obviously, a million giveaway is a commonsensible intervention or solution to push human development.

In sum, the author does not necessarily have to be explicit on 'how'; you have to read between the lines. That is called critical assessment.
Kodzo 8 years ago

But what is between the lines is THE question!!! Therein lies the rub. We can only make a critical assessment if the writer tells us the modalities of the change: how one million and one factory will bring about human develop ...
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But what is between the lines is THE question!!! Therein lies the rub. We can only make a critical assessment if the writer tells us the modalities of the change: how one million and one factory will bring about human development.

There is nothing like reading between the lines here because what is between those lines is far from being obvious.

Mugabe, try not to look at this through partisan eyes. This is the time to discuss the nitty-gritty. We need healthy debate. Now, it is not about which party to vote for. We have put that behind us.
Justice 8 years ago

Yes the guy has the book knowledge BUT did not answer the question he posed himself. The article was full of definitions and nothing on how Akufo Addo's proposal was going to help Oman Ghana. GHana doesnt need theories anymor ...
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Yes the guy has the book knowledge BUT did not answer the question he posed himself. The article was full of definitions and nothing on how Akufo Addo's proposal was going to help Oman Ghana. GHana doesnt need theories anymore. We need practical steps, systematical, well tested methods and consistent approaches to bring economic development to the people.

People try to show their empty book knowledge on such platforms which helps no one. Indeed I was very generous in alloting him 3/10, as someone commented.
BERNARD 8 years ago

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PHOTOSY 8 years ago

am not pushing for the one factory one district but $1M per constitiuency must be a must in his first 100 days as the constitiuencies need them from beginning of the each year. I will be damned if this is not done in the firs ...
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am not pushing for the one factory one district but $1M per constitiuency must be a must in his first 100 days as the constitiuencies need them from beginning of the each year. I will be damned if this is not done in the first 100 days. We are talking about 4 years, meaning $4M per constitiuency . Anything means we have been short changed.
Kwame 8 years ago

When Absurdity is worshiped and made a fetish. Taking a look at what the state spend on salaries of civil and public servants in a month in even the least populated region in Ghana one comes to the conclusion that $1,000,000. ...
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When Absurdity is worshiped and made a fetish. Taking a look at what the state spend on salaries of civil and public servants in a month in even the least populated region in Ghana one comes to the conclusion that $1,000,000.00 to a region in a year is less than a drop of water into the ocean.
It is a fact that even the LEAP paid to people who deserve it in the district which I originated from, the Keta District last year is about GHC25,000.000.00. So a person living in a district that receives about GHC50,000,000.00 in a year which is being told that GHC4,000,000.00 is better than ten times that and he or she voted for that is a person under some sort of illusion.
I am well aware that a GHC1 ball of kenkey satisfies my hunger. A person comes and promise me 1/10 of that and I drop my one ball of kenkey to go for the 1/10 of it.
The question to ask is am I a being, do I use my brain to think or I worship illusions.
I wrote sometime ago that my village is situated within tree rivers. The river on the east is about two kilometers from the one in the west which is just 100 meters from my cottage. On a bright December day I feel thirsty, went and fetch water from the River Avafla to drink. Coming home I saw a mirage of a lake in the east over the glass land leading to the River Whenyi.
I threw away the water in my calabash and make a dash for the vast mirage in the west, under the scorching sun.
It is a fact that no all the people in Ghana have witness a mirage before and my believe that there is a lot, I mean a lot of water therein.
Being a village boy, I am well aware that the real source of water is in the Rivers Ledzorbui, Avafla, Ewhenyi, Dewhe, Nuyi, Ledorbui and even the little Agorvi, but not in a mirage.
I always hit a hard ground of dust or asphalt where the illusion of nature call mirage is. Nana Akufo-Addo and NPP are pointing to us a mirage as being a source of water, which I will not swallow hook, line and sinker.
Philip 8 years ago

Yours is nothing but invidious distinction and envy.

Yours is nothing but invidious distinction and envy.

Kaf Sweden 8 years ago

Hmmmmmm waiting waiting for empty promises

Hmmmmmm waiting waiting for empty promises
AMATX USA 8 years ago

Enemies of progress you will all be put in shame in Jesus name Amen

Enemies of progress you will all be put in shame in Jesus name Amen

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