African Economy
Ghana is an African country located on the western side of Africa. Its neighbors are Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and Cote D'Ivoire to the west. It has a population of 18,100, 703 and a population density of 197 people per square mile. Ghana is 92,098 square miles and English is its official language. The capital city of Accra has around 1, 673,000 people residing in it. There are the physical statistics, now onto the more interesting part. The country's greatest strengths lie in its natural resources. In those terms, it is very rich. Cocoa, its biggest export, accounts for 15% of the world's supply. Also its gold production, in recent years, it's exported as many as one million fine ounces. Ghana also has a good supply of bauxite, diamonds, coffee, rice, cassava, timber and rubber. Moreover, since 1983, the economy has steadily grown. With economic recovery policies intact, the economy has raised 5% a year since 1983. Tourism also is growing within Ghana. Tourist rates are increasing also. With all these cash crops, costly goods, and economic restructuring, one would wonder why they need assistance at all.
If this would all work, Ghana could and would be a powerful small country. With its high variety of natural resources and arable land, it wouldn't take much to get this country out of debt. If plans go extremely well, Ghana could possibly start handing out the loans. Remember that education is the foundation of everything possible. Goals are also quite simple. Short term goals: get at least 30 educators to the country to train civilians and other teachers, raise GNP and per capita GNP, reduce pollution and deforestation, and raise literacy rates. Long term goals: to have the natives teach each other so the hired abroad workers could go elsewhere, lower growth rate and disease rates, get country out of debt. Now my plan isn't too creative, but I believe that it's just what Ghana needs. Because the country already has plenty of available natural resources, what it needs is the economic knowledge to put those to work and try to repay debts and earn capital. What needs to be done is simply education. If these farmers and government officials were trained in business sense, then the economy would be one of the highest in Africa. If around the world (possibly the UN could be of service) teachers (or people with business skills) were able to go to Ghana for a year and teach large classes, there would be a major improvement right there, And simultaneously, train native Ghanians to be able to teach people themselves. Then have them teach people also. So it would build this massive netw
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