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THE ASSOCIATION of Ghana Industries (AGI) has praised the 2020
\nBudget for really focusing on business, indicating that it will enable business
\nowners to plan and predict the future of their businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Chief Executive Officer of the AGI, Seth Twum-Akwaboah,
\nwelcomed the budget and said it did not introduce new taxes or contain policies
\nthat could stir up the market for possible instability.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking on\u00a0Joy News PM Express<\/em>\u00a0programme on
\nThursday, the AGI boss said the budget was carefully crafted by government to
\nmaintain the status quo unlike what it did in the mid-year\u00a0review of the
\n2018 budget, which introduced more different taxes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis time, you could see that the government maintained\u00a0most
\nof the things that are already in the system,\u201d he said. He pointed to the
\nstability of the microeconomic environment and\u00a0efforts by government,
\nthrough the new budget,\u00a0to keep the indicators at reasonable levels, to
\nbuttress his point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to him, there is a conscious effort by government to
\nconsolidate gains at the microeconomic level, asserting that there exists good
\nstability in the microeconomic environment.<\/p>\n

The AGI CEO explained that the currency depreciation had been
\nwithin a reasonable range with inflation dropping, whilst the policy rate had
\ntaken a down\u00a0turn, arguing that there is no gainsaying that there had been
\na lot of improvement at the microeconomic level.<\/p>\n

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, stressed how the economy had seen a miraculous turnaround in just 32 months, with growth rate doubling and rebounding strongly from 3.4 per cent in 2016 (the lowest GDP growth rate since 1994) to 7 per cent average under President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n

By Ernest Kofi Adu<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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