A new report by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) titled ‘Multi-dimensional Poverty-Ghana’, has established that 14 million of the country’s total population of 31 million are multi-dimensionally poor.
The report defined multi-dimensional poverty to mean many overlapping deprivations faced by an individual at the same time.
It mentioned such deprivations to include lack or limited access to quality health care, housing, education, nutrition, sanitation, water and money.
The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), assessed poverty in a more complex form than monetary deprivation.
Based on the Ghana Living Standards Survey of 2016/2017 and the 2011 and 2018 Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, the report established that inequality between rural and urban populations remained a challenge, with the incidence of multi-dimensional poverty in the rural areas being more than twice that of the urban areas.
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Ghana 39;s Parliament on Wednesday approved a $162, 931,563. 27 Barclays Bank PLC loan to finance the design, construction and furnishing of seven district hospitals and provide an integrated IT systems by NMS Infrastructure Limited.
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He spent most of the last four years caustically lambasting the Akufo-Addo Administration, rather than proffering constructive criticism, so it comes as quite refreshing that Prof. Ransford Yaw Gyampo, the University of Ghana’s political scientist, should be offering the President what he deems or appears to be his candid opinion about what Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the leaders of the ruling New Patriotic Party need to do, if they are not to be completely overwhelmed by events going into the 2024 General Election (See “Appoint Dan Botwe as Chief-of-Staff – Gyampo to Akufo-Addo” Daily Mail / Ghanaweb.com 12/26/20).
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo began his second term yesterday, promising to preoccupy himself with the building of pathways that would create jobs for young people.
He said the last four years had taught him that Ghanaians would no longer accept poverty and deprivation as their portion, but were rather determined to work to chart a path of growth and development for themselves.
Consequently, he said: “Establishing a strong economy and undergoing structural transformation to value-added activities, which will generate jobs for our young people and enhance their living standards, will be the main preoccupation of my second term.”
President Akufo-Addo said this in his inaugural address after he had taken the Oath of Allegiance and the Presidential Oath, administered by the Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, before Parliament on the precincts of Parliament House.