Ghana working to build a resilient economy - Akufo-Addo
The President, who made the statement on Thursday in his maiden speech at the at the 72nd Session of the United General Assembly, currently ongoing at New York, said no matter how generous the charity, Ghana will remain poor.
He said: "We do not want to be a scar on anybody’s conscience. We want to build an economy that is not dependent on charity and handouts. Long and bitter experience has taught us no matter how generous the charity, we would remain poor.
"We want to build a Ghana which looks to the use of its own resources and their proper management as the way to engineer social and economic growth in our country. We want to build an economy that looks past commodities to position our country in the global marketplace.
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"We are not disclaiming aid, but we do want to discard a mind-set of dependency and living on handouts; we want to build a Ghana beyond aid. It is an easier platform on which to build sustainable relationships."
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