{"id":437438,"date":"2017-11-15T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T11:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/15\/macro-economic-stability-restored-for-jobs-in-2018-ofori-atta\/"},"modified":"2017-11-15T11:49:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T11:49:12","slug":"macro-economic-stability-restored-for-jobs-in-2018-ofori-atta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/15\/macro-economic-stability-restored-for-jobs-in-2018-ofori-atta\/","title":{"rendered":"Macro-economic stability restored for Jobs in 2018 \u2013 Ofori-Atta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Bawumia-Ken-Ofori-Atta-475x267.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Government has performed creditably well in restoring macro-economic stability particularly inflation and the fiscal deficit, Finance Minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the 2018 Budget Statement and Economic Policy on Wednesday, Ken\u00a0 Ofori-Atta said: \u201cWe have returned to robust growth with a real GDP growth of 7.8%\u2026We have reduced inflation, and October inflation of 11.6% from 15.4% end December of 2016. We have maintained stability of the cedi against the US dollar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The feat, according to the Finance Minister is \u201cprotecting the value of money in the pocket of ordinary Ghanaians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The improvement will also see businesses gain space to plan and invest hugely in the stabilized business environment, he indicated.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the turnaround has sown the seeds for economic growth and employment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c The broad agenda for next year is to translate the stability achieved into shared growth of aggressive policies, in that creating more opportunities for jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1136575713042949&version=v2.3\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has performed creditably well in restoring macro-economic stability particularly inflation and the fiscal deficit, Finance Minister has said. Presenting the 2018 Budget Statement and Economic Policy on Wednesday, Ken\u00a0 Ofori-Atta said: \u201cWe have returned to robust growth with a real GDP growth of 7.8%\u2026We have reduced inflation, and October inflation of 11.6% from 15.4% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":437439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Macro-economic stability restored for Jobs in 2018 \u2013 Ofori-Atta - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/15\/macro-economic-stability-restored-for-jobs-in-2018-ofori-atta\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Macro-economic stability restored for Jobs in 2018 \u2013 Ofori-Atta - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Government has performed creditably well in restoring macro-economic stability particularly inflation and the fiscal deficit, Finance Minister has said. 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