{"id":1257799,"date":"2022-11-25T08:17:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T08:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/our-challenges-are-daunting-but-dont-lose-hope-ofori-atta\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T08:17:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T08:17:48","slug":"our-challenges-are-daunting-but-dont-lose-hope-ofori-atta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/our-challenges-are-daunting-but-dont-lose-hope-ofori-atta\/","title":{"rendered":"Our challenges are daunting but don\u2019t lose hope \u2013 Ofori-Atta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-11-24-at-11.11.44-AM-1-696x464.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ken Ofori-Atta reads 2023 Budget in Parliament\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Ofori-Atta reads 2023 Budget in Parliament <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has urged Ghanaians to be hopeful and trust the government\u2019s economic policies that he believes will put the country on the path to recovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenges we face are daunting, but\u00a0we must not\u00a0lose sight of the greatest strength\u00a0of being Ghanaian: resilience, entrepreneurial zeal, faith, courage, solidarity and hope.\u00a0I, therefore, ask all of us to play a constructive role in getting our nation fully back on\u00a0track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOurs is\u00a0a country with real prospects and the challenges notwithstanding, Ghana\u00a0will rise again, and my faith is premised on the fact that a lot has already been achieved,\u00a0especially over the course of the Fourth Republic and our policy, as outlined in this\u00a0budget\u00a0to reset the economy, if supported will ensure that, indeed, we have not wasted\u00a0the current global crisis but used it to make our economy stronger and the progress\u00a0and prosperity of our people even more assured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Mr Ofori-Atta among other things announced the increase of VAT rate by 2.5 percent\u00a0to directly support Ghana\u2019s roads and\u00a0digitalization agenda.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"W2Tg5HDPnf8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam on Adom TV (24-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W2Tg5HDPnf8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Ofori-Atta reads 2023 Budget in Parliament Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has urged Ghanaians to be hopeful and trust the government\u2019s economic policies that he believes will put the country on the path to recovery. \u201cThe challenges we face are daunting, but\u00a0we must not\u00a0lose sight of the greatest strength\u00a0of being Ghanaian: resilience, entrepreneurial zeal, faith, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}