
Bright Simons
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3 weeks ago |
theconversation.com | Gemma Ware |Bright Simons
Three months after the Trump administration made drastic cuts to its aid agency, USAID, the effects are being felt across the world, particularly in Africa. Donald Trump has long been a critic of foreign aid, arguing that it’s not aligned with American interests. But he is by no means the first person to criticise the aid industry.
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Jan 14, 2025 |
modernghana.com | Bright Simons
If you are of a certain age and know Accra a bit, you must know Shangri-La. A cute, low-rise, hotel along the northern stretch of the Liberation road, and on the doorstep of what later became the Israeli-built Tetteh Quarshie Interchange and, a few years later, the Accra Mall. If you are middle-class enough, you may even remember the legendary “pizza by the pool”.
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Jan 14, 2025 |
modernghana.com | Bright Simons
The Minister of Finance designate of Ghana’s new government was very supportive of the positions of Civil Society Organisations (CSO) in some of our advocacy campaigns when he led the parliamentary opposition. On the issue of SML, one of the most wasteful decisions taken by the previous government, for instance, CSOs and the parliamentary opposition literally sang from the same hymn sheet.
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Jan 12, 2025 |
modernghana.com | Bright Simons
Ghana's new president has reduced the number of government ministries to 23 from the previous 30 in line with his campaign promises. When it comes to clustering subsectors to create ministries, every wise person you meet would have different opinions. In the 2000s, the Kufuor government decided that “youth and sports” belonged with “education.” The Mills government disagreed.
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Jan 7, 2025 |
todaygh.com | Bright Simons
During their term, they totally sidelined and emasculated all centres of dissent in the country. They rendered all critical voices redundant. Should the NDC now embark on large-scale power consolidation by pruning the public sector and the “commanding heights” of the economy to support their own patronage networks, they will be riding on highways paved by the NPP and they will encounter very few obstacles and roadblocks ahead. Roadblocks systematically removed by the NPP.
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