Number of poor Ghanaians halved over last 20 years - NDPC boss
Poverty has been halved in Ghana over the last two decades, according to the Director-General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) Dr. Esseim Mensah-Abrampa. He stressed further in an interview on Accra-based TV3 that Ghaana as a lower middle-income economy was not a poor country. He told Kemmini Amanor, host of Hot Issues programme: “Ghana is not poor, we are a lower-middle-income country. We are not poor because if you have the means of measuring in terms of development with all the global indicators, we have what we call the least developed countries, you have developing countries then you have lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income, and then developed. “So it tells you that if you are going by these five graduations, we are right in the middle.” He explained why the lower middle-income status did not reflect in the lives of most Ghanaians, stating thus: “It does reflect in the lives of the people because per capita income, how much you earn, and the sophistication in our lives and our…
11 Dec 00:00 · GhanaWeb