{"id":298029,"date":"2017-03-01T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=298029"},"modified":"2017-03-01T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T06:00:17","slug":"ghanas-2015-economic-highlights-under-mahama-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=298029","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s 2015 economic highlights under Mahama [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Finance Minister under the Mahama administration, Seth Tekper, in 2016, during the government&#8217;s last budget reading before Parliament, revealed that the agricultural sector, which is touted as the &#8216;backbone&#8217; of the country&#8217;s economy, did not see significant growth in performance in spite of the many investments.<\/p>\n<p>The sector hit 7-year low record by contributing only 19% to the country&#8217;s GDP, down from the 2009 contribution of 31.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Others sectors, industry and services, however, saw a significant performance in the year 2015, and also contributing more to the country&#8217;s total GDP.<\/p>\n<p>The infographic below presents an outlook of the performance of key sectors of Ghana&#8217;s economy as announced by the then finance minister, Seth Tekper, in his 2016 budget statement and economic policy address before parliament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/01\/ghanas-2015-economic-highlights-under-mahama-infographic\/ghanas-2015-economic-highlights\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-298194\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-298194\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ghanas-2015-economic-highlights.png\" alt=\"ghanas-2015-economic-highlights\" width=\"2357\" height=\"2482\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: 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>The Finance Minister under the Mahama administration, Seth Tekper, in 2016, during the government&#8217;s last budget reading before Parliament, revealed that the agricultural sector, which is touted as the &#8216;backbone&#8217; of the country&#8217;s economy, did not see significant growth in performance in spite of the many investments. The sector hit 7-year low record by contributing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":66508,"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":[2419,11],"tags":[4534,4535,128,4536],"class_list":["post-298029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infographics","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-economic-outlook","tag-ghana-finances","tag-john-mahama","tag-seth-tekper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298029","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=298029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}