{"id":467775,"date":"2018-02-26T18:11:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T18:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/26\/we-are-building-resilient-robust-economy-akufo-addo-tells-us-governors\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T18:11:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T18:11:57","slug":"we-are-building-resilient-robust-economy-akufo-addo-tells-us-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/26\/we-are-building-resilient-robust-economy-akufo-addo-tells-us-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"We are building resilient, robust economy \u2013 Akufo-Addo tells US Governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Monday, 26 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-26<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/42403326.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nga Akufo Addo Diw\" title=\"Nga Akufo Addo Diw\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President Akufo-Addo was in the US for the National Governors Association 2018 Winter Meeting<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519668717_588_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">President Akufo-Addo has said the work government has undertaken since he took office is leading to the building of a resilient and robust economy.<\/p>\n<p>He believes this will subsequently take Ghana to a situation beyond aid.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he won the 2016 elections because Ghanaians were dissatisfied with their living conditions and the direction in which the country and economy, was headed.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo said his government\u2019s programme of economic transformation is hinged on restructuring the institutions of governance, modernising the country\u2019s agriculture to enhance its productivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have begun to work on the fundamentals of the economy because we believe that an improved macro-economy is a basic requirement for stimulating the investments we need for the rapid expansion and growth of the Ghanaian economy, and the generation of wealth and jobs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The President said this when he delivered the keynote address at the National Governors Association 2018 Winter Meeting, in Washington DC on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This, he said, has led to the growing strength of the economy, from a growth rate of 3.6% in 2016 to 7.9% in 2017 as well as the stabilisation of the cedi.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there has been a reduction in inflation from 15.6% at the end of 2016 to its current level of 10.3%, a revival of Ghanaian industry, from a growth rate of -0.5% in 2016 to 17.7% in 2017 and reduction in interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s fiscal deficit he said moved from 9.3% to 5.6% of GDP; and the abolition of nuisance taxes, with the aim of shifting the focus of the Ghanaian economy from an emphasis on taxation to an emphasis on production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also putting in place strong measures to increase revenue mobilisation, by plugging leaks and reforming the existing tax exemption regime,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the process of economic and industrial transformation in Ghana is going along with ensuring that the most basic elements of social justice are met.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have begun to make quality basic education, i.e. education from kindergarten through to secondary school, accessible to all of Ghana\u2019s children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough my government\u2019s policy of free secondary education in our public schools launched in September 2017, at the beginning of this academic year, 90,000 more children gained access to senior high school in 2017, than they did the year before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Equally, accessible healthcare to all of Ghana\u2019s citizens, through an efficient and financially self-sustaining National Health Insurance Scheme, he stressed, is a crucial goal of my government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do all this to promote a culture of incentives and opportunity, to unleash the considerable ingenuity, creativity and entrepreneurial talents of our people, especially of our youth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This, he was confident, is the surest path to national prosperity, bolstered by an enhancement of public accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast Friday, before my departure for this visit, I appointed the first Special Prosecutor in our history, a known, respected anti-corruption crusader, whose task will be to deal, exclusively, with issues of corruption, and hold public officials, past and present, accountable for their stewardship of our nation\u2019s public finances,\u201d President Akufo-Addo added.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 48 updated by: 48 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\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>Business News of Monday, 26 February 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2018-02-26 President Akufo-Addo was in the US for the National Governors Association 2018 Winter Meeting President Akufo-Addo has said the work government has undertaken since he took office is leading to the building of a resilient and robust economy. 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