Mussa (2007) asserts that the Fund's management should have taken an increasingly tough stand, mentioning "the possibility of formal censure of a country's policies by the Executive Board as a final resort for those rare and highly regrettable cases where all vigorous but less extreme efforts at persuasion have failed".
The first President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, inaugurated the Bank at its inception, and it is now for this President, His Excellency, to grace this occasion, to usher us in the next 50 years. Your Excellency, we very much appreciate that you have taken this time to come.