The Ashanti Regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, has taken described Prof. Steve Hanke as an empty headed person who shouldn’t be invited by the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA).
Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako contends that rather than spend time inviting the professor of Applied Economics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the IEA should rather channel that energy into inviting market women from Makola who understand economic issues better than the American.
Speaking to Wontumionline.com, the NPP Chairman popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, stated that “he is not bringing any new idea, he is not coming with anything new” as he dissected Prof. Steve Hanke.
“IEA should rather go in for our market women at Makola because they understand economics better than a foreigner who doesn’t even know how the cedi looks like. He doesn’t know how trading is done here in Ghana and who are trading partners are so he wouldn’t even understand how the war in Ukraine is effecting Ghana’s economy.
He doesn’t even have the data to show the number of Ghanaians who go to China to import goods into the country so speaking to such an empty head on economic issues about Ghana is like talking to a mad man”, he said.
Prof Steve Hanke is set to arrive in Accra for a round table economic discourse, Wontumionlien.com has learnt.
The professor of Applied Economics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland who is also a senior fellow and director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington, DC will be hosted in Accra by Ghana’s Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA).
Prof Hanke who is a co-director of the Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Applied Economics will be joining a panel with IEA Research Boss Dr. John Kwakye, IEA Senior Economic Fellows Dr. Eric Osei Assibey, Prof Alex Darko, Prof John Asafu Adjaye among others.
The date and time of the event is yet to be made public.