Veep addresses conference on economic transformation

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, last Tuesday participated in an international conference on the political economy of economic transformation in Accra

The three-day conference, which brought together more than 70 academicians, civil servants and representatives of civil society organisations (CSO’s) from Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar, South Africa, Uganda and Ethiopia, discussed how best to boost political economic transformation in Africa.

Dr Mahamudu Bawumia said the government would unveil a Marshal plan for the agricultural sector as part of efforts to make agriculture more profitable and a source of well-paying jobs.

Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia (5th right) with some participants after the conference

The Head of Economic Transformation Projects of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Ghana, Mr Fritz Kopsieker, said millions of Africans were in need of decent work that would pay them fair wages and salaries, as well as offer them better conditions of service, health and safety standards.

Mr Fritz Kopsieker (2nd right), the Head of Economic Transformation Project, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Ghana, introducing Dr Manfred Oehm (left), the Head of Africa Department, FES Berlin, to Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia (right) at the international conference on the political economy of economic transformation

To achieve that, he said, African economies needed to industrialise to transform to a level that would allow the people to enjoy decent incomes, fair conditions of service and safe working environment.