Over the past 34 months, Ghana’s economy has headed in the wrong direction, Executive Director of Global InfoAnalytics, Mussa Dankwah, has disclosed.
This, he says, is obtained from responds from persons his outfit has engaged in their polls over the period.
According to him, the economy has been the driving force of people’s assessment of the current administration saying many have described the country as heading in the wrong direction.
Speaking on his latest poll on Ghana Tonight where the economy still features as the main issue many Ghanaians would be voting on, he said the lack of disaggregation of growth, as pointed out by Professor Asuming
He explained the standard of living of the masses has also been worse in the last 12 months which has influenced people’s judgement of the government and the direction of the economy.
“It’s all about disaggregation and if you look at what they’ve been telling us, they’ve been telling us that the country is headed in the wrong direction, consistently, over the past 34 months.
“And then again they say that their standard of living in the last 12 months has always been worse than the previous year. So, the cost of living which is linked with the economy is the direct of people’s satisfaction with the current government and it balls down to whether they are participating in the economic growth or not,” he stated.
He cited the mining sector for instance which Prof. Asuming had disclosed as the sector that has seen the highest growth in 2024, but not impacting directly on the economy due to the involvement of just a minute section of the population at the sector.
“How many people are involved in mining activities. If the big men are the ones driving the economic growth, then it’s not going to be spread across to any other areas of the economy where people are engaged in,” he explained.
His comments come on the back of a latest poll by his outfit on the 2024 elections where the economy is still influencing the most part of the conversation at the expense of the government despite the positive figures showing in the books.
