Research and Advocacy group unveils infrastructural development book
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The Research and Advocacy Platforms (RAP), a policy think-tank that conducts research into policy issues of national interest, has outdoored a book that seeks to simplify some economic concepts and theories relating to infrastructural development and its bearing on economic wellbeing.
The book, titled “Infrastructure; Is It the Best Use of Our Money?” was authored by Mr Razak Abu, Director of research at the RAP.
At the launch in Accra early last week,Mr Abu said since the last general elections in the country there has been the growing use of lies and vile propaganda by politicians and leaders of political parties to advance the course of their respective parties in readiness for the 2016 general elections.
According to Mr Abu, having noted the disturbing growing phenomenon, “we, from the RAP wish to provide, as our contribution to the burgeoning democracy of Ghana, a re- focus to the use of evidence and knowledge as basis for the country’s electoral discourse.”
The book, he told the media, “is therefore an attempt to put together the record and utterances of some politicians and political parties in the run-up to the 2016 general elections. This is to enable Ghanaians have accurate and adequate information to enable them make informed choices.”
Dr Zakaria Mawia, Director of Institute of Social Research and Development (ISRAD) explained that the book is made up of four concise chapters, chapter one; on Introduction, chapter two; on Analysis of the Correlation between Infrastructure and Wellbeing, chapter three; some claims by the opposition party the NPP, while the final chapter focuses on the conclusion.
Dr Mawia, indicated that Infrastructure is everybody’s business because there is a direct correlation between infrastructure and job creation.
On his part, Mr Steve Akuffo, former deputy minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, who chaired the event commend the author for his works and urged all and sundry to read the book to gain the knowledge that it presents.
