Business News of Friday, 8 November 2019Source: Myjoyonline.comPoverty rate drops to 23% in the last 27 years – NDPC bossDr Kodjo Mensah-Abrampah, Director General of the NDPCThe Director General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), has said Ghana’s poverty reduction strategy has made some strides as the country’s poverty rate dropped to 23 per cent in the last 27 years. Much of this progress, Dr Kodjo Mensah-Abrampah, said, was between the periods of 1992 to 2005, where the rate of poverty dropped to 25 per cent. For instance, he said the Ghana Poverty Reduction 1, 2 are some of the policies that were targeted at the poor and because of that those who ordinarily will have been victims of poverty were brought in. “Those days NDPC was at the peak of coordinating all those processes that related to reducing poverty and working together with other ministries. There is a whole study, which has been carried out by the NDPC and UNICEF to look at the issue of child poverty.

Source: GhanaWeb November 08, 2019 13:47 UTC