The Uhuru administration has been accused excessive borrowing, with an estimate that it has borrowed much more than the accumulative amount
borrowed by all past governments since independence.
Not exact matches
Since risk spreads for most borrowers have also declined this means that overall
borrowing costs for rated borrowers, corporate and most
governments, are low
by the standards of the
past few decades.
The next fiscal squeeze could be very different from those of the
past few decades if it starts with a debt wall more comparable to that of the 1920s and 1930s, when
governments» room for fiscal manoeuvre was sharply limited
by their predecessors» decision to fund the huge costs of World War I largely
by borrowing rather than
by taxes.
It is shameful and embarrassing that having been in power close to two years with massive
borrowing (over GHC 40 billion), goodwill, huge oil revenue, revenue generating policies bequeathed to it
by the
past administration, the Akufo - Addo
government is unable to point to cogent and data driven achievements.
First, it was recently reported that over the
past 12 months 46 cents of every dollar spent
by government was
BORROWED!