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Visiting Professor of Economic Governance at the Central University College (CUC) and 2012 Vice-Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says the Single Spine Salary Structure is not the cause of the depreciation of the Cedi or the economic difficulties the country is currently facing.<\/p>\n

He said this during his lecture on \u201cRestoring the Value of the Cedi\u201d at the Public Lecture organized by the Central University at their Miotso campus in Prampram.<\/p>\n

He compared the previous wage bill levels before the Single Spine Salary Structure was implemented to and the increases in revenue to make his point.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of 2008, the Government wage bill amounted to GHC1.98 billion, representing 41.3 percent of total domestic revenue of GHC 4.8 billion.\u00a0 By the end of 2012, after 99% implementation of the single spine salary system, the government wage bill jumped by some GHC4.6 billion to GHC6.6 billion. While the government wage bill increased by some GHC4.6 billion between 2008 and 2012, total government revenue also increased from GHC4.8 billion to GHC15.5 billion over the same period. The increase in domestic revenue by GHC10.7 billion was more than twice the increase in the government wage bill. Indeed, by the end of 2012, the government wage bill following the implementation of the single spine salary system was 42.9% of total domestic revenues. This is not significantly different from the 41.3% in 2008. At the end of 2013 the government wage bill absorbed 53% of government revenue, underpinned by a weak tax revenue performance.<\/p>\n

The current economic difficulties can therefore not be attributed to the single spine salary system which had been 99% implemented at the end of 2012. Furthermore the wage bill as a % of Ghana\u2019s GDP (total income) even though high, is not new. It is within Ghana\u2019s historical standards. Between 2002 and 2005 the wage bill averaged 8.5%. Following the statistical rebasing<\/span> of GDP, the wage bill as a percentage of GDP declined to6.<\/span>1% in 2007, and has risen steadily to 9.6% of GDP in 2013, \u2018\u2019 he noted.<\/p>\n

Dr. Bawumia<\/span> also said that the current difficulties were not as a result of the Single Spine scheme which was well thought through and planned for but more as a result of policy choices like the quadrupling of the National debt in 5 years with an addition of GHC40.5billion; the payments of huge sums in judgment debts and other fishy expenditures like GYEEDA, SUBAH, SADA etc. as<\/span> well as the weakening fundamentals of the economy which<\/span> had limited the fiscal space available in the economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, it appears as though government<\/span> does not appear to have done a holistic analysis of the impact of its policy choices on the budget and fiscal outlook. If it had done so, it should have been clear that the policy of accelerated borrowing which<\/span> increased the debt stock by 426% in five years for example would<\/span> take away some of the cushion or fiscal space that was available to the economy in terms of increased interest costs. The same conclusion would also have been reached with regard to the accelerated payment of judgment debts, GYEEDA, etc<\/span>\u2026,\u2019\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

According to the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana the problem is therefore not with the SSSS which was planned for, even if poorly implemented. \u2018\u2019The problem is with the fiscal space that has been eliminated by the high levels of borrowing, dubious payments under GYEEDA, SADA, SUBAH, and questionable judgment debt payments all of which were not planned for at the time the single spine salary system was designed,\u2019\u2019 Dr Bawumia<\/span> said.<\/p>\n

The Economist alluded that Single Spine is no way the cause of the depreciation of the exchange rate or the current economic woes and therefore should be left alone.<\/p>\n

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By: Evans Effah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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