Campaign Coordinator of the Third World Network, Dr. Yao Graham, has dismissed government\u2019s claim that it has created thousands of jobs through its economic management and infrastructural development programmes.<\/p>\n
Government recently published hundreds of jobs it claimed to have created over the past three years.<\/p>\n
But Dr. Yao Graham, in an interview with Citi News<\/strong>, said there is no universal economic growth in Ghana.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”OkJA9llud6SwooC6Op6DfTeW3u2lCdqh”]\u201cMany of the business associations are on record telling us some of the challenges they face. Creating a productive enterprise for example in manufacturing and agriculture which is producing for domestic consumption, it\u2019s very difficult because policies are biased in favour of those who are producing for exports.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Graham\u00a0said,\u00a0\u201cthe growth does not create jobs. So even though you may have a headline figure for example in 2011, Ghana grew by 14 percent, when it is aggregated a large part of that growth is because the value of oil coming on stream has added to the size of the economic outbreak,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Over 600,000 jobs created<\/strong><\/p>\n Government last month released a list outlining the number of jobs it has created in the last four years.<\/p>\n According to the list, government has since 2013, created close to 600,000 jobs.<\/p>\n A statement signed by the Minister of Communications, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah further said close to 96,000 people\u00a0have also been trained to create their own jobs.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n