Ghana: Prune Down Interventions-IFS Tells Govt

9 November 2018

The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), a think tank, has called on the government to prune down its numerous social and economic intervention programmes aimed at promoting strong broad-based economic growth and reducing unemployment.

According to the IFS government's initiatives such as the Free Senior High School Programme, National Builders Corps, Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme, One District One Factory, the Industrialisation Revitalisation programme, Planting for Food and Jobs, Akufo-Addo Programme for Economic Transformation and the Zongo Development Fund, though laudable were "numerous and grandiose".

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