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Ministry launches economic policies
and programmes' booklets
Accra, July 5, Ghanadot/GNA – Mr. Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu,
Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, on Thursday
launched nine booklets designed to simplify the technical
language of national budget, economic planning and policy
documents for easy comprehension by citizens.
Among booklets launched in Accra was a 77-page abridged and
simplified version of the 400-page 2007 budget statement
dubbed: “A Citizen’s Guide to the 2007 Budget Statement,”
which is the second of its kind after the publication of a
similar version of the 2006 budget.
This publication explains how government plans to collect
money from various sources and how it intends to spend money
between January and December 2007.
Others are a booklet dubbed: “Policy Initiatives for the
2007 Budget Statement and Economic Planning of Ghana” and
another publication, “Our Inputs” which captures inputs made
by some public and private institutions and individuals into
the 2007 budget statement.
There are also two booklets dubbed: “Beyond the Budget”
volumes one and two which contain a compilation of the wage,
energy and employment issues from 1982 to 2006 and another
one “Ahead of the times - Beyond our Means”, which contains
initiatives planned for the coming years.
The remaining three booklets are the first of their kind and
they each focus on development projects in three separate
districts assemblies, namely, Asante Akim North, Suhum
Kraboa Coaltar and Savelugu/Nanton.
All the publications are designed to communicate government
policies and programmes to the public in very simple
language.
Mr Baah-Wiredu noted that in line with the purpose of
investing the taxpayer’s money into the publications, the
media would be expect to use them as a source of information
to educate the public on national policies and programmes.
Complementary copies of the booklets would be donated to
schools, libraries, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs),
private sector organisations among others. Copies would also
be made available in bookshops for sale.
Panellists at the launch, including Ministers, admitted that
the booklets would serve a good purpose, not only for
ordinary citizens but also for government officials to be
able to make a more informed analysis, critique and approval
of national budgets and policy programmes brought before
them.
GNA
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