Home Affairs: A Conversation
Ghana’s 2025 budget has all the sauce to enchant. It begins with a preamble that acknowledges how economic mismanagement has dimmed the prospects of Ghanaian youth, leaving them with an uncertain future and a sense of injustice. And a promise to do better. The policy priority of the budget, to paraphrase the Finance Minister, is to reset a distressed economy. It boasts big plans – a 24-hour economy, a GHï¿ 13.8 billion Big Push, and fiscal discipline. What’s most striking is the proposed removal of the electronic levy, a burdensome tax that drained the life out of about 17,000 mobile money businesses.
But will the 2025 budget deliver on what it promises? I joined Ghana Center For Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) ’s Democracy Dialogues to address this question and more. Marie-Noelle O. Nwokolo did a classy job facilitating an important dialogue for industry leaders Victoria Agbai , Wendy-Yam Osman and Awura Abena Agyeman and a development upstart like myself :).
Have a listen and kindly leave a parting thought.
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1 周It was an absolute pleasure and a job made easy with minds like yours! ????