Women and youth empowerment surest way out of poverty – Akufo-Addo

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo on Wednesday reiterated that the empowerment of women and the youth was the surest way of rooting out poverty and guaranteeing progress and prosperity of Ghana and Africa.

Addressing the opening of the 2017 European Development Days Conference in Belgium, a leading forum on international cooperation and development, Akufo-Addo said this so-called “youth bulge” provided immense opportunities for rapid economic development.

According to him, Ghana’s economy, like most of others in Africa, had remained structurally rigid since the colonial era, depending largely on the exports of primary commodities such as, in the case of Ghana, gold, cocoa, bauxite and timber.

He said there could be no prosperity in the short, medium or long term if the West African nation continued to maintain this economic structure, according to a release by the Flagstaff House.

Akufo-Addo also said his government’s priority was to build the most business-friendly and people-friendly economy in Africa which would create jobs and prosperity for citizens.

“This will be done through the introduction of measures that will empower the private sector,” he stressed. Enditem

Source: Xinhua/NewsGhana.com.gh

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