Government has indicated that its post COVID-19 economic recovery programme remains on top of its agenda.
Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah disclosed this at a press briefing at Peduase on Monday, March 8, 2021.
According to him, the government’s immediate focus is to outline how it brings back the resilient economy and aggressively get back on its development agenda.
“The post COVID recovery programme is aimed at enabling the Ghanaian economy to return to its previous successes.”
“This is a key pillar on which the Akufo-Addo administration’s second-term agenda is hinged. It is a priority because without it, there is little foundation on which we can build the country’s transformation agenda that we all desire.”
“The shocks that COVID has dealt to the Ghanaian economy have been so severe that attention needs to be paid to a quick recovery of the microeconomic situation as well as the physical situation.”
“So you will notice that a lot of the work coming through this week will be among other things centered on the post-COVID recovery programme,” he explained.
Ghana’s economy was on a smooth rise between 2017 and 2020 recording improvement in various areas such as GDP growth, micro economic stability, single digit inflation and stability of the cedi.
However, the influx of the coronavirus pandemic dealt the Ghanaian economy a blow eroding the gains government recording.
The Minister emphasized that the government is focused on rolling out measures that will recover the economy and put it on the path it was before the virus hit the shores of the country.
