A Deputy Minister for Finance, Kwaku Kwarteng, believes the government\u2019s policies and programs aimed at ensuring development in the country can go ahead, whiles efforts are being made to collate the necessary data on the country’s labour force.<\/p>\n
He argued that the government must not halt its activities due to the unavailability of up-to-date employment figures.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”v8jucI2bVQuVtBNDqTuKhdciYhR97onk”]Reacting to criticisms that the government had failed to gather accurate data on the country\u2019s employment records to influence its policy decisions, Mr. Kwarteng said \u201cit is wrong to say that because of all these inadequacies, the government is not in the position to design policies to improve the unemployment situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
While stressing that the introduction of the National Identification System will help the government accurately determine the labour dynamics in the country, he noted that the government would proceed with the implementation of its plans while it collects the data.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe strategies to know accurately how many are unemployed and what kind of employment they are looking for is not something we can do overnight and we cannot wait to do all that before we design policies to address unemployment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He noted that the government will give the private sector incentives to expand its operations and be able to employ more youth in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhilst we take steps to do that, it is important to give incentives to the private sector to expand economic activities\u2026 It is important for government itself to see what is given to the private sector in any area, and we will be able to achieve some success by these interventions without having the kind of accurate data we\u2019re talking about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
‘Employment data to be ready in 3 months’<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, President Akufo-Addo has said that the government will provide accurate statistics on the country\u2019s employment statistics within the next three months.<\/p>\n He said the government cannot currently provide comprehensive information on its labour statistics despite claims his government has created some jobs, and is in the process of adding more.<\/p>\n Reacting to a question about the number of jobs the government had created at the second media encounter at the Flagstaff House on Wednesday, President Akufo-Addo said, \u201cthe statistics on the jobs\u2026. I am barely one year in office. Some of these statistics are being collected as we speak now so the labour statistics as to the number of jobs that have been created, those are not statistics that are at hand anywhere. Even for the government, I believe that they are in the process of being assembled, so perhaps in 2 or 3 months, we will be in a better position to answer that question in a more effective manner.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Deputy Minister for Finance, Kwaku Kwarteng, believes the government\u2019s policies and programs aimed at ensuring development in the country can go ahead, whiles efforts are being made to collate the necessary data on the country’s labour force. He argued that the government must not halt its activities due to the unavailability of up-to-date employment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":374199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[3,3934],"yoast_head":"\n