{"id":202964,"date":"2024-07-25T07:01:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/25\/university-of-ghana-lecturer-lauds-governments-cost-cutting-measures\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T07:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T07:01:13","slug":"university-of-ghana-lecturer-lauds-governments-cost-cutting-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/25\/university-of-ghana-lecturer-lauds-governments-cost-cutting-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Ghana lecturer lauds government\u2019s cost-cutting measures \u00a0 \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>A Lecturer and Head of the University of Ghana Learning in Cape Coast, Dr. Hayford Ayerakwa has commended the government for its cost-cutting measures. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This comes on the back of Minister for Finance, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam\u2019s mid-year budget presentation to Parliament on Tuesday, July 23, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He outlined a number of cost-cutting measures that the government intends to implement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stabilization is real. We are determined to be more effi\u00adcient, strategic and intentional to entrench fiscal consolidation and strongly promote growth,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister further stated that the government would spend within appropriation, and in line with that would \u201cReinstate the fiscal rules on the five per cent deficit threshold, which we suspended in 2020, in 2025\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on\u00a0<strong>Morning Starr<\/strong>\u00a0with Lantam Papanko, the Economist said the cost-cutting measure should be implement adding that \u201cit is extremely important to us\u201d. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean one of the other notable things is you know the various cost-cutting measures that were announced the government obviously wanted the mid-year budget review to reflect the times that we are in and so yeah is it a step in the right direction in all of those measures that were announced?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely, I mean any government that makes an effort to cut down expenditure is commendable except that under the current dispensation that we find ourselves in it is extremely important to us\u201d, Dr. Hayford said<\/p>\n<p>starrfm.com <\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lecturer and Head of the University of Ghana Learning in Cape Coast, Dr. Hayford Ayerakwa has commended the government for its cost-cutting measures. \u00a0 This comes on the back of Minister for Finance, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam\u2019s mid-year budget presentation to Parliament on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. 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