{"id":374048,"date":"2017-11-15T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=374048"},"modified":"2017-11-15T16:06:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:06:23","slug":"2018-budget-statement-and-economic-policy-full-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=374048","title":{"rendered":"2018 budget statement and economic policy [Full Text]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta on Wednesday, November 15, 2017, presented the Akufo-Addo government&#8217;s 2018 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The budget highlighted results from the government&#8217;s policy programmes over the past months,\u00a0 and announced the government&#8217;s planned developmental programs for the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Among the major programs to be rolled out by the government in 2018, are tax relief for private universities,\u00a0tax holiday for young entrepreneurs, proposed <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/15\/ghbudget-electricity-tariffs-to-be-reduced-by-13\/\"><strong>13% reduction in electricity tariff<\/strong><\/a><\/span> for residential consumers, the establishment of\u00a0nation-building corps and operationalization of the special prosecutors&#8217; office.<\/p>\n<p>The budget, dubbed the &#8216;Adwuma Budget&#8217;\u00a0 focuses mainly on revenue mobilization through strict tax collection modules and job creation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2018-Budget-Statement.pdf\"><strong>Click here to read the full budget statement<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta on Wednesday, November 15, 2017, presented the Akufo-Addo government&#8217;s 2018 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to Parliament. The budget highlighted results from the government&#8217;s policy programmes over the past months,\u00a0 and announced the government&#8217;s planned developmental programs for the next fiscal year. Among the major programs to be rolled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11655],"tags":[11511,8,3,2254],"class_list":["post-374048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-ghbudget-2018","tag-2018-budget","tag-akufo-addo","tag-ghana-news","tag-ken-ofori-atta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374048","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}