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While poverty reduction outpaced the SSA average until 2020, poverty rose sharply afterward. Structural issues—including limited job creation, high informality, and large labor force growth—require fiscal policy to support economic transformation. Policy priorities include macro stability via deficit and borrowing limits, targeted investments and reforms for global value chain participation, strengthened ICT and digital skills, and improvements in human capital through adequate and more efficient spending.","Macroeconomic and Fiscal Context  \nPublic Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nG Review   Foundations forhana Pub lic Finance Building the a Resilient and Equitable Fiscal Policy  \n1/  \n1/ Macroeconomic and Fiscal Context  15  \n1.1/ Despite past successes, Ghana faces multiple challenges into the future  \nGhana is one of the largest countries in Africa by gross domestic product (GDP) and population. With close to 32 million inhabitants and a GDP of US$73 billion, Ghana ranks 10th by population and 6th by economic size in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and 47th and 78th, respectively, in the world. GDP per capita stands at about US$2,300, having almost quadrupled since the early 2000s, and reaches US$5,700 in constant purchasing power parity (PPP) terms (the 11th highest level in SSA) . Ghana’s economy has grown faster than the regional average since 2008, but macroeconomic imbalances, structural challenges, and external shocks have recently hindered growth.  \nSince the 1990s, and up to 2019, the share of the population living in poverty has halved. While poverty affected more than 85 percent of Ghanaians in 1991, about half of the population lived on less than US$3.65 a day (2017 PPP) in 2016—a share lower than the SSA average, which stood at around 65 percent ( Figure 1.1) . This decline highlights that Ghana had outpaced the region on poverty reduction. However, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have caused poverty to bounce back since 2020, to reach 57 percent of the population in 2023, moving Ghana closer to the SSA average.1 Inflation has been one of the highest in the region and, by eroding the purchasing power of Ghanaians and affecting the most vulnerable groups of population, it has contributed to a recent increase in poverty.  \nGhana Public Finance Review | Volume 2 / Detailed Analysis  16  \nGhana has achieved faster poverty reduction than SSA’s average, despite recent setbacks  \n\n| Figure 1.1. Ghana and SSA poverty rate (US$3.65, 2017 PPP) |\n| --- |\n|  |\n| Figure 1.2. SSA: poverty headcount rate for 2023 (lower-middle-income poverty line, US$3.65, 2017 PPP) |\n| \u003Cbr>\u003Cbr> |\n| Source: World Bank 2023. Poverty and Inequality Platform for global poverty lineup numbers. Macro Poverty Outlook (Annual meetings 2023) . |\n\n For sustained poverty reduction, fiscal policy will need to support economic transformation.  \nGhana faces significant development challenges in providing more and better jobs and needs to further promote inclusive growth, partly through appropriate fiscal policies. As the share of extractives in GDP started to increase since the early 2010s, a sizable portion of Ghana’s growth has not  \n1/ Macroeconomic and Fiscal Context  17  \ngenerated sufficient jobs, and the impact of growth on poverty reduction has  \ndeclined. Ghana now faces an acute jobs challenge that will require generating  \nmore and better job opportunities for lower-and mid-skilled workers. More  \nthan 70 percent of current jobs are in the informal sector, and around 10  \nmillion Ghanaians will enter the labor force between now and 2040. As set  \nout in the 2021 World Bank Report ‘Ghana Rising’, Ghana needs to support  \nimproved productivity of existing firms and spur entrepreneurship, innovation,  \nand job creation, through global integration (by harnessing the potential of  \ntrade, foreign direct investment, and global value chains) and technological  \nprogress (better management practices, increased use of technologies, and  \nenhanced worker skills) .  \nA strategic fiscal policy that promotes macroeconomic stability, generates  \nthe necessary public investments, and creates the right incentives is  \nneeded to tackle these challenges. To support economic transformation,  \nfiscal policy must first ensure a stable macroeconomic environment conducive  \nto private investments. 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