National Development Planning Commission Country Resources Development and Poverty Strategies Ghana 1 January 2006 Policy document

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The present paper, GPRS II, is intended to introduce a shift of
strategic focus, even though many of the actual programmes which will be implemented under it
between 2006 and 2009 will be in the same areas. The central goal of the new policy is to accelerate the growth of the economy so that Ghana can achieve middle-income status within
a measurable planning period. It is necessary to place such a far-reaching change in the focus of
development policy into a perspective of Ghana’s economic history which is much longer than the
recent past when we began writing periodic policy papers of this sort.

While the GPRS I focused on poverty reduction programmes and projects, the emphasis of GPRS II is on the implementation of growth-inducing policies and programmes which have the potential to support wealth creation and sustainable poverty reduction. GPRS II is therefore anchored on pursuing the following priorities:
• continued macroeconomic stability
• accelerated private sector-led growth
• vigorous human resource development
• good governance and civic responsibility

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