Member of Parliament (MP) for Akuapem North Constituency, has argued that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government outperformed the (NDC) in meeting the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Convergence Criteria, which are key economic benchmarks aimed at ensuring stability and monetary integration among member states.
Awuku noted that the NPP made stronger progress in key economic areas despite global economic challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. "Using this set of performance indicators, it is clear that NDC's economic performance in the previous administration, between 2009 and 2016, was far below the performance of the last NPP Government from 2017 to 2024," he stated on the floor of parliament on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
Comparing and contrasting the two administrations, he highlighted fiscal discipline, pointing out that the NDC left a budget deficit of 9.0% in 2016, while the NPP reduced it to 5.2% on a cash basis and 7.9% on a commitment basis by 2024.
However, he admitted that neither government met the ECOWAS target of keeping the deficit at or below 3% of GDP. "This was never achieved by either NPP or NDC," he remarked.
