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The art that is transporting bananas.
Provision of Road and Rail Infrastructure
President Mills just inaugurated the new Accra-Aso-
prochona train and reaffirmed that improving railway
and roads was in the priorities in order to ensure de-
velopment, productivity and employment.
Water and Sanitation
At the beginning of this year, the government was
to start the water supply infrastructures for a num-
ber of urban places, and was willing to achieve 60%
coverage of rural communities with safe and pota-
ble water, as well as the construction of storm water
drainage and sanitation.
Petroleum
The production of oil and gas from the big offshore
Jubilee Field is started at the end of 2010. As for
the rest, the emphasis will be put on processing
infrastructures, developing other fields, local skills
and companies, and on ensuring transparency in
revenue.
Environmental protection plans will also be enacted
and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) will be ensured
on a nationwide basis for minor reliance on wood fuel.
Information and
Communication Technology
ICT will enable to transform the Ghanaian economy
into an information and knowledge based economy
that will allow the e-government project to come into
being and thus facilitating cross-agency collabora-
tions, crime investigations and promoting innovative
applications. Not to mention the increasing use of
ICT in all sort of sectors, such as commerce, bank-
ing and agriculture, as well as in the auto-mechanic
domain.
New Pension Scheme
The New Pension Scheme includes an increased
contribution of the government as the employer, from
12.5% to 13% of an employee’s salary. Not only will
this change enhance employees’ domestic savings,
but also the whole Ghanaian economy.
National Greening Program
A National Plantation Program approved by the gov-
ernment this year, in which approximately 100 District
Assemblies take part, plans to expand forest cover,
and as a consequence, to employ more than 51,000
people by 2011.
Tourism
The constant growing tourism in Ghana reflects
its potential for job creating and poverty reduction.
Seven Tourist Receptive Centres are currently under
construction to provide tourists with a big range of
different services.
Women Empowerment
Policies are to be put into place to ensure equality
and equity between genders. We can witness wom-
en empowerment both in rural and urban areas, with
a particular focus on poor ones.
The Judicial System
Based at first on British common law, the 1992
constitution granted major autonomy to Ghanaian
courts. The judiciary system, subject to that consti-
tution but independent, is divided hierarchically in