Lack of employment target is Ghana’s macroeconomic failure — Prof. Bokpin

Bokpin said Ghana cannot expect economic growth to translate into jobs when employment generation is not treated as a core national policy objective.

He stressed that setting annual employment targets would compel policymakers to channel resources into labour-intensive sectors of the economy, making job creation a deliberate outcome of economic planning rather than a by-product of growth.

His comments follow the National Development Planning Commission's (NDPC) assessment that Ghana's 6% GDP growth in 2025 was largely "jobless", with the benefits of economic expansion failing to produce adequate employment opportunities.