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It emphasizes stronger public institutions and provides recommendations supported by figures and benchmarks.","1  \nPublic Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \n2025 POLICY NOTES:  \nTRANSFORMING GHANA IN A GENERATION  \nTable of Contents  \nOverview 2  \nRestoring Macro-Financial Stability to Support Economic Transformation 17  \nKey Challenges 20  \nKey Policy Priorities and Opportunities 23  \nRecommendations 27  \nGhana Energy Sector: Achieving Financial and Operational Sustainability 31  \nKey Policy Priorities and Opportunities 35  \nRecommendations 39  \nEnhancing Productivity, Competitiveness, and Job Creation 43  \nStatus of Private Sector Job Creation in Ghana 45  \nKey Barriers to Private Sector Investment and Job Creation 51`  \nKey Policy Priorities and Opportunities 56  \nRecommendations 59  \nInvesting in Human Capital to Maximize Ghana’s Demographic Dividend 63  \nStatus of Human Capital Investment in Ghana 64  \nKey Challenges 67  \nKey Policy Priorities and Opportunities 72  \nRecommendations 77  \nImproving Natural Resource Management and Disaster Risk Management 81  \nKey Challenges to Effective NRM 85  \nKey Policy Priorities and Opportunities 90  \nRecommendations 95  \nClimate-Smart Agriculture as an Economic Growth Pole 99  \nKey Challenges 101  \nKey Policy Priorities and Opportunities 104  \nRecommendations 107  \nSustainable Infrastructure 111  \nTransport-Key Policy Priorities 118  \nUrban Development, Resilience, and Land-Key Policy Priorities 119  \nDigital Development-Key Policy Priorities and Opportunities 121  \nWater Security for Development-Key Policy Priorities 122  \nRecommendations 125  \nStrong Public Institutions to Foster Growth and Development in Ghana 131  \nRecommendations 141  \n2025 Policy Notes: Transforming Ghana in a Generation  I  \nList of Figures  \nFigure 1: Energy Sector ‘Business as Usual’ Scenario-Annual and Cumulative Shortfall 32  \nFigure 2: Distribution Utility System Losses 34  \nFigure 3: The Employment Gap for Youth Highlights Limited Access to Good Jobs and 44  \nDominance of Informal Work  \nFigure 4: Low Investments in Assets, FDI, and Credit to Businesses Are Holding Back Job 46  \nCreation; 2023 Economic Indicators as Share of GDP  \nFigure 5: Within Formal Manufacturing, Food Products and Garments Create the Most Jobs 47  \nFigure 6: Ghana’s Private Sector Holds Significant Untapped Export Opportunities; EPI and 49  \nMissing Exports by Sector, Average 2010–2019  \nFigure 7: Regions Expected to Have the Largest Working Youth Population as of 2030 Already 50 Benefit from Employment Opportunities in Textiles, Electronics, and Chemicals  \nFigure 8: Ghana Scores Poorly on B-READY Categories, Signaling Challenges to Creating an 52 Enabling Environment That Encourages Private Sector Investment  \nFigure 9: The Private Sector Faces Long Delays at the Border 53  \nFigure 10: Few Firms Have Upgraded Business Functions Using Digital Technologies (Shown as 55 % of Firms)  \nFigure 11: Management Practices Affect the Ability of the Private Sector to Adopt Sustainable 55 Processes  \nFigure 12: Ghana-Population Projections by Age Group 64  \nFigure 13: Human Capital Index and GDP per Capita 64  \nFigure 14: Ghana-Trend in the Prevalence of Poverty 65  \nFigure 15: Ghana-Trends in Government Education and Health Spending 66  \nFigure 16: Ghana-District-Level Poverty Headcount (2016) 71  \nFigure 17: Natural Resources Rent (% of GDP) 82  \nFigure 18: Soil Erosion in Ghana 86  \nFigure 19: Tree Loss in Natural Forest 86  \nFigure 20: Spatial Distribution of Yields of Maize, Rice, Cassava, and Yam by Region-2020 102  \nFigure 21: Capital Stock of the Public Sector (% of GDP) 112 Figure 22: Capital Stock of PPPs (% of GDP) 112 Figure 23: Perceived Prevalence of Corruption in the Public Sector 134  \nII  2025 Policy Notes: Transforming Ghana in a Generation  \nList of Table  \nTable 1: Projected Annual Savings Applying International Benchmarks  \nTable 2: Ghana Lags on Most Indicators of Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and Environmental Health  \nTable 3: Transport Benchmark ","cbCaieQNoPFQZwKG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieQNoPFQZwKG","pdf",33098582,2,1,154,"English","en",105,"# Overview\n## Restoring Macro-Financial Stability to Support Economic Transformation\n## Ghana Energy Sector: Achieving Financial and Operational Sustainability\n## Enhancing Productivity, Competitiveness, and Job Creation\n## Investing in Human Capital to Maximize Ghana’s Demographic Dividend\n## Improving Natural Resource Management and Disaster Risk Management\n## Climate-Smart Agriculture as an Economic Growth Pole\n## Sustainable Infrastructure\n## Strong Public Institutions to Foster Growth and Development in Ghana","[{\"question\":\"What overall goal does the 2025 Policy Notes propose for Ghana?\",\"answer\":\"It proposes transforming Ghana in a generation by restoring stability and implementing policy priorities across sectors. 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