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Have faith; economic respite coming soon – Bawumia’s Technical Advisor

Have faith; economic respite coming soon – Bawumia’s Technical Advisor

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, on Thursday, announced a number of specific measures, the government will be implementing to put the ailing economy back on track. 

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The question is, do we have faith in all the measures that have been put in place by the government.

The Finance Minister signalled that, in the mid-year budget review he will tell us how these measures have yielded results, if they do not, we will review them.”

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The Finance Minister’s statement reiterated that since the start of this government, it has been consistent with its position of moving this economy away from a commodity-dependent economy to more of an industrialized economy

All these are not just for the fun of it but they are supposed to lay the foundation for the development of this country to ensure that at least, jobs are created for a strong export advantage so the currency will have some stability.”

“With these self-discipline measures that we are trying to put across, we have done it before, so we don’t go to the IMF again, but we never followed through, so what shows that this time around, we are going to follow them

If we were to go IMF, I will say the benefits would have been better compared to disciplining ourselves

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