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Mahama highlighted commitments such as downsizing the government, eliminating ex-gratia, and abandoning the E-levy.
Addressing the 2024 NDC policy dialogue in Peduase in the Eastern Region on Friday, February 23, 2024, Mahama said "I mean business on the promises I have made and intend to keep them."
He asserted that these initiatives could significantly enhance the country's fortunes, particularly its economic landscape.
"Since 2021, I have outlined over 60 different policy proposals, carefully curated to restore our economy and national life in general, to a much better state," he added.
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Some of the policy measures he has outlined include:
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- Implement a 24-hour economy strategy with three (3) shifts of eight (8) hours each to; maximize productivity and efficiency; transform Ghana into an import substitution and export-led economy; enhance access to public services and create more well-paying jobs for unemployed Ghanaians.
- Stop the economic decline and restore stability and inclusive growth to the economy.
- Reform the Bank of Ghana and rejuvenate the almost collapsed banking and financial secto
- Prioritize local participation in the banking, financial, telecommunications, mining, oil and gas, agriculture, manufacturing, and construction sectors to generate more jobs for the youth.
- Actively attract viable and serious private sector investors to partner government to invest in productive sectors for job creation.
- Lead a process to set a standardized limit for borrowing and ensure that Ghana never suffers such a deadly debt management programme that threatens to send elderly people holding government bonds to their early graves and wipe out the investments of the Ghanaian middle class.
- Complete abandoned and ongoing projects instead of rushing to start new ones.
- Establish a Governance Advisory Council to help improve political governance, curb corruption, and ensure respect for human rights.
- Run the leanest but most efficient government under the fourth republic by appointing not more than 60 ministers and deputy ministers in our bid to cut down on government expenditure.
- Abolish the payment of ex-gratia and cut out waste and ostentation in government.