Accra's floods reflect a deeper economic challenge - EM Advisory

In a presentation titled Decongest the Economy, Decongest Accra: A Tri-Pole Economy Model for Ghana, EM Advisory argues that Accra's flooding, traffic congestion, housing shortages and overstretched public infrastructure are all manifestations of a single underlying issue: the excessive concentration of economic opportunity in one metropolitan area.

In EM Advisory's assessment, building a more resilient Accra ultimately requires building a more balanced Ghana—one in which economic opportunity is no longer concentrated in a single city but shared across multiple regions capable of driving national growth.

The report concludes that unless Ghana deliberately redistributes where opportunity is created, the capital will continue to experience recurring congestion, flooding and infrastructure strain regardless of future investments in roads and drainage systems.