Tuesday 12th November, 2019
Accra, Nov. 12, GNA
– Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, will on Wednesday, November 12,
lay before Parliament the 2020 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of Government,
on behalf of the President.
This is in line with
Article 179 of the 1992 Constitution and section 21 of the Public Financial
Management Act, 2016 (Act 921).
A statement issued
by the Public Relations Unit of the Ministry of Finance, and copied to the
Ghana News Agency, said the 2020 Budget would ‘focus primarily on consolidating
gains made by government through its prudent economic management over the three
year period since assuming Office’.
Some of these gains
include, Job Creation, Improvements in Educational Enrolment at the Senior High
School (SHS) level through the Free Senior High School Programme,
Infrastructure Development and Food Security.
It would also
highlight Ghana’s Fiscal Performance between January and September 2019 and
the Fiscal Strategy for 2020.
Additionally, the
annual budget would announce policies to secure the macro-economic gains
achieved to propel the economic transformation of Ghana.
The highlights would
include Road Rehabilitation and Construction, Government Priority Programmes
and the Funding of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat
in Accra.
This would be the
third Budget to be implemented by the Akufo- Addo-led Administration, which was
sworn into office on 7th January 2017.
GNA
