The Impact Crew: An Economy of Effort

Gone were the days were universities and colleges graduates were graced with job opportunities even before they had their graduation service for their respective courses. That day were yesterday and today is today. Today, the unemployment rate in the country is tremendously increasing at a faster pace. Ghana’s unemployment rate is estimated at 25.29% as in the end of the year 2016. A vacancy opportunity at a company is somewhere Adum-Kumasi is competitively available not only to dwellers but competent and eligible applicants around the globe.

In this informative age of our, information is key and so one must be abreast with information. One may be sitting on gold but without information, he or she may not be aware. The Bible makes it vivid as it is indicated in the book of Hosea “my people are perished because of lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I have also rejected you. Somewhere in this world, genius inverted internet and the work of the postman in a corner was thrown to the thrash making their generated revenue an excuse. An economy of effort is at work.

‘Finish school so that you could get a white collar job with a better wage, better working condition and a better standard of living’. This is the mentality of our parents and also the pattern of heritage being passed on from generation to generation. My years in the college gave me the definition that, education is what you have left after you have forgotten all that you learnt in school. The new is, majority of the youth who have completed unfortunately have nothing left after forgotten all that they learnt in school. In Robert T. Kiyosaki’s book “Rich Kid Smart Kid” I learnt that, the richest men in our societies do not even own a degree and as a matter of fact, money is an idea. So what are these papers we boast of in this competitive world? From readings and lessons I have learned that, we need to strategically position ourselves well in this competitive and dynamic world of ours.

Success is contagious and its commanded when innovative, creative, informative, decisive, dedicative, enthusiastic and enabling individuals with high degree of competitiveness in this modern day of economic competitiveness from all works of life who have the drive and influence to make positive impact to the growth and development of my motherland Ghana and the continent as whole. By assessing the competitiveness landscape of this country, providing in-depth insights into the drivers of their productivity and prosperity. We have come to the age where the mentality that makes our country poor must be dealt with. The youth must emerge resources, ideas, trust, creativity and foster personal growth and development. The rate of unemployment is not decreasing as a result of increasing population. There must be a paradigm shift. With that in mind the unemployment rate will be reduced and in the long run raise the living standard of the people. Why should we live on gold and lick dust?

In a breadth, I agree to the fact that, our previous government and the current governments have failed in raising the sense if competitiveness as corruption steers the affairs of the state making the entrepreneurship and ‘no go’ venture for most of the Ghanaian youth. The mixed economic system is questionable as it’s only applicable in theoretical terms. There should be a framework to determine how total production could be accrued out in the economy. Government owned enterprises from the year 1990 to now have either been sold to foreigners or mismanaged and collapsed. In fact, Nkrumah’s freedom he brought us is questionable in a way. Who deceived him that the black man is capable of managing his own affairs?

Specialization is supreme but diversity is logic. It is wrong for a qualified doctor to only limit himself or herself to the consulting room, the teacher to the classroom. We must diversify our personal resource, makes ourselves available and resourceful and create a competitive advantage that leads to greater economic prosperity. Even though its increasingly clear that resourceful societies are a magnet for talentand investment. Talking with a friend by name Vida Mpupukita from Kenya’s capital Nairobi she asserted that she sees numerous opportunities but the pressing setback is capital. Capital, a drive for dreams and innovations. If any government wants to prosper in economic and industrial wise then it must seek to provide an enabling economic environment and resourceful ventures.

Akwasi Brobbey
(Senior writer and editor at TIC)
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