Paul Victor Obeng, Chairman of the National Planning Commission, has stated that Ghana is experiencing crisis of transition from a lower-income country to a middle-income status.
He said as a result of this, certain grants and financial privileges accorded the country would not be forthcoming.
Speaking to workers at a symposium organised by the Tema District Council of Labour of Trades Union Congress (TUC) recently on the theme: �Ghana�s Economy: Concern for all,� Mr Obeng called for support and patience as government engaged Ghanaians to manage the transition which he said had raised hopes and expectations.
A draft of a new economic model, which seeks to break the vicious economic cycle which Ghana has endured over the years, would be outdoored in May, according to him.
�It is the product of our experience, vision, desires and aspiration as a people who want to reconstruct the very foundation of our economy. We are charting a new economic planning path where the activist role of the State would be paramount.�
He said all manner of persons would be invited to scrutinise the model to make it more transformational, diversified and devoid of the inequality factor.
He added that �the state, as an interventionist in socio-economic matters, would ultimately insolate the vulnerable from the pressures of economic transformation while encouraging them to join the crusade of national transformation.�
Mr Obeng therefore asked Ghanaians to use the current multi-party political dispensation to identify and discuss pertinent national issues devoid of violence and hostility.
�We have an opportunity to deliberate on matters of national importance. Let�s debate to determine what idea is convincing and work at it. That would be a multi-party political dividend.�
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