Ghana: Rural-Urban Migration Declines, Says Prez

President John Evans Atta Mills says the economic interventions being pursued by his National Democratic Congress (NDC) Administration has led to a reduction in the age-long rural-urban migration. Some of the interventions, he said, included the Local Enterprises and Skills Development Programme (LESDEP), Youth in Agriculture, Youth in Road Maintenance, National Forest Plantation Program and the National Youth Employment Programme.

He said high inflation figures, high budget deficits and depleting gross international reserves were now matters of the past, and all these had been achieved because of the turnaround in the economy. The President said these in a statement read on his behalf by his Policy Advisor, Dr Christine Amoako-Nuamah, during the opening ceremony of the 3rd Ghana Policy Fair under the auspices of the Ministry of Information in Accra this week. The six-day fair was themed Building Together in a Better Ghana.

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