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Specialist Health Training and Plant Medicine Research Act, 2011 (Act 833)
OBJECTIVE ONE: PROMOTE AND ACCELERATE BROAD-BASED
SUSTAINABLE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
This objective deals with the way the country formulates and appropriate policies and
strategies for the promotion and acceleration of their socio-economic development
process.
5.2
Evidence-based Decisionmaking
5.2.1
National Statistics
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) made available provisional national and regional
results of the 2010 Population and Housing Census (PHC) in 2011. The GSS also
generated relevant statistics for the formulation of national policies, and the assessment
and evaluation of economic policies and performance The GSS prepared seven key
reports – Consumer Price Index, Annual GDP – Production, Annual GDP – Expenditure,
GDP estimates, National Accounts Statistics, Monetary and Financial Data, Quarterly
Digest of Price Statistics and Digest of Macroeconomic Data.
5.2.2
National Development Planning Commission (NDPC)
The Commission commenced the preparation of a Long-Term Economic Growth
Strategy to address current economic growth issues. The growth strategy will inform the
long-term policy choices in the areas of human, social, spatial and agricultural
development.
The Commission has also commenced the preparation of a National Infrastructure Plan to
identify the long-term infrastructure needs of the country and highlight the medium term
priorities in line with the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda (GSGDA).
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