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Budget: Businesses in Ghana were doing well before COVID-19

By Laud Nartey
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Budget: Businesses in Ghana were doing well before COVID-19

The budget statement for the 2021 fiscal year presented to Parliament by Leader of Government Business Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has indicated that businesses in Ghana were performing before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Majority Leader said government had put in place prudent fiscal measures to grow the economy.

These measures he said, were yielding fruits until the virus emerged to disrupt everything.

“Mr Speaker, three years prior to the pandemic as a government we had a plan. We stayed focused, kept our discipline, kept our promises and worked with integrity, creativity and compassion.

“As a result, the economy saw a turn around and economic gross rate doubled from 3.4 per cent in 2016 to average 7 per cent annually.

“The Banking sector cleanup had been completed, businesses were doing well and creating jobs, food production was growing with bumper harvest and suddenly Ghana had become major tourist attraction .

“We were indeed on a path of fiscal consolidation by 2019. But out of nowhere the COVID-19 Global pandemic hit us.”

By Laud Nartey|editors.3news.com|Ghana

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Laud Nartey is an online editor with current affair team at Media General, operators of TV3 Ghana, 3News.com and more. Email: Laud.Nartey@editors.3news.com

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