{"id":296297,"date":"2017-02-22T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=296297"},"modified":"2017-02-22T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T06:00:30","slug":"sotnghana-5-take-aways-on-economy-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=296297","title":{"rendered":"#SOTNGhana: 5 take-aways on economy [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has suggested that Ghana&#8217;s economy is in a dire situation owing to some decisions by the erstwhile John Mahama-led government.<\/p>\n<p>In his maiden State of the Nation address before Parliament on Tuesday [February 21, 2017], Nana Akufo-Addo accused the previous government to &#8220;ballooning&#8221; the country&#8217;s debt stock to GHs122 billion, from the GHs9.5 billion it inherited from the John Agyekum-Kufour government.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, had left office with the country&#8217;s GDP rate of 3.6%, which he says is the lowest the country has recorded in the past 23 years.<\/p>\n<p>Below are 5 take-aways on the economy from Akufo-Addo&#8217;s address.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/22\/former-akwatia-mp-dr-kofi-asare-dies-in-car-crash\/nana-addo-state-of-the-economy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-296449\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-296449\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nana-Addo-State-of-the-economy.jpg\" alt=\"nana-addo-state-of-the-economy\" width=\"768\" height=\"867\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnyabor\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @jnyabor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has suggested that Ghana&#8217;s economy is in a dire situation owing to some decisions by the erstwhile John Mahama-led government. In his maiden State of the Nation address before Parliament on Tuesday [February 21, 2017], Nana Akufo-Addo accused the previous government to &#8220;ballooning&#8221; the country&#8217;s debt stock to GHs122 billion, from the GHs9.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2419],"tags":[525,3,312,4274],"class_list":["post-296297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infographics","tag-ghana-economy","tag-ghana-news","tag-nana-akufo-addo","tag-state-of-the-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}