{"id":219827,"date":"2026-01-09T23:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-zaato-rates-mahama-administration-60-percent-on-economy-urges-caution-in-early-praise\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:25:25","slug":"ghana-zaato-rates-mahama-administration-60-percent-on-economy-urges-caution-in-early-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-zaato-rates-mahama-administration-60-percent-on-economy-urges-caution-in-early-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Zaato Rates Mahama Administration 60 Percent On Economy, Urges Caution in Early Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">A Senior Lecturer and political analyst at the University of Ghana, Dr Joshua Jebuntie Zaato, has given President John Dramani Mahama&#8217;s administration a 60 percent score for its economic performance, while cautioning against excessive praise in the first year of governance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking in an analysis of the economy, Dr Zaato explained that although current economic indicators show improvement, such performance is not unusual in the first year of a new administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">He described the score as a high&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601090452.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Senior Lecturer and political analyst at the University of Ghana, Dr Joshua Jebuntie Zaato, has given President John Dramani Mahama&#8217;s administration a 60 percent score for its economic performance, while cautioning against excessive praise in the first year of governance. Speaking in an analysis of the economy, Dr Zaato explained that although current economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[7115,258,256,8279,7473,5762,4508,4509,7780,257,6720,6338,12850,254,6810,53370],"class_list":["post-219827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-administration","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caution","tag-early","tag-economy","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-praise","tag-rates","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-zaato"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}