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By Godwill Arthur-Mensah, RNG
Accra, March 25, GNA – Dr. Hafez Ghanem, the
The Vice President of the World Bank announced Monday that the Bank would support the
smooth implementation of the free high school program in Ghana in order to
provide quality education to all children of school age.
He challenged other African nations to imitate
Ghana's success story, claiming that quality education was the most
important and not just access.
He also promised the Bank to spare no effort.
support for digital reforms and cited the paperless system and
believed that this would strengthen financial inclusion, income mobilization for
economic growth.
The Vice President of the World Bank gave the
the badurance when he paid a courtesy call on Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President, to
Jubilee House, the seat of government, in Accra.
Dr. Ghanem said that Ghana had played an important role
pioneering role on the African continent since independence and welcomed the
The country's current growth rate hovers around 6%.
He gave badurance that the Bank
support the priority areas of the country and channel resources to their
success, particularly the vision of modernizing the Ghanaian economy and
realization of "Ghana Beyond Aid".
Dr. Ghanem congratulated President Akufo-Addo
government to achieve macroeconomic stability over the past two years and
stated that the Bank was working with the African Union and the United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa on strategies for the digital transformation of
Africa.
He presented the four strategies to reach the
Digitization Program in Africa as; invest in digital infrastructure, human
ability to make more Africans become engineers and entrepreneurs
Africa has become a continent for start-ups, modernizing regulation
institutions to facilitate the conduct of business and improve the electronic system
the governance.
On the subject of digitization, he said that Africa only had 21
Internet accessibility and stressed the need to increase
100% accessibility.
He said that a delegation from the Bank would
attend the Ghana Digital Roadmap Conference scheduled for May this year.
Dr. Ghanem noted that for every nation
success of its industrialization program, it was necessary to ensure links
global value chains and asked the country to follow this trajectory
progress in its program of industrialization.
GNA
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