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A deputy Information Minister has described opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo as a dreamer, “notorious for talking big but delivering little.”Baba Jamal was responding to a statement by the New Patriotic flagbearer during his interaction with the Tertiary Education Students Conference (TESCON) of the NPP at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.Nana Addo stated countries are developed by visionary leaders who think big, act big and do big things.He said Ghana under his stewardship will gradually move from her current middle income status into a developed one.His comments have been appraised differently but with political lenses.One time Convention People’s Party flagbearer aspirant Prof Agyemang Badu Akosa doubted, in fact questioned Ghana’s middle income status.He said by his “common sense economics” Ghana has failed in all human development indices and cannot be said to have attained middle income status.According to him, the international benchmark by which a person is considered poor is too low and demanded that Ghana sets her own benchmark of about $5.00 per day.The UN and World Bank define extreme poverty as living on less than US $1.25 per day.Prof Akosa said Ghana must strive for higher standards, ones that will respond directly to the needs of the Ghanaian.
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