{
  "id": 6270456,
  "title": "BRT Extended 2026 calls for Ghana to convert economic stabilisation into long-term resilience",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/brt-extended-2026-calls-for-ghana-to-convert-economic-stabilisation",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-08T06:49:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Joy Business",
    "slug": "joy-business",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/brt-extended-2026-calls-for-ghana-to-convert-economic-stabilisation-into-long-term-resilience/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The inaugural Executive Dialogue, titled \"After the Corrections: Building Resilient Economic Pillars for the Next Decade,\" convened government officials, business leaders, academics, and development partners to discuss how Ghana can leverage its current period of macroeconomic stabilisation to build a more resilient economy. The meeting, held at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra, aimed to move from diagnosis to implementation and leave participants with practical commitments rather than general consensus.\n\nIshmael Yamson Jnr., President and CEO of Ishmael Yamson & Associates, emphasized that Ghana's persistent economic challenge lies in the failure to sustain implementation, despite having a clear understanding of its economic problems. He challenged the private sector to accept responsibility for recurring economic crises, such as seeking exemptions, short-term capital allocation, and advantage through proximity to power instead of productivity.\n\nThe Deputy Minister for Finance, Hon. Thomas Nyarko Ampem, presented the government's five-pillar framework to transition from correction to construction. The pillars include stronger economic buffers, a more productive economy, a private sector capable of investing, stronger institutions than the political cycle, and growth that Ghanaians can feel. Each pillar focuses on specific areas such as preparing Ghana for future shocks through reserves, sustainable debt, fiscal buffers, energy and food security; changing what Ghana produces and how productively it produces; enabling private-sector investment; reinforcing fiscal rules and commitment controls across political cycles; and linking economic policy to infrastructure, enterprise development, skills, apprenticeships, digital capabilities, exports, and employment.",
  "summary": "…The Inaugural Executive Dialogue brought together government, business, academia and development partners together to move from diagnosis to implementation The inaugural Business Roundtable Extended 2026 Executive Dialogue has called for Ghana to use its current period of macroeconomic stabilisation to build a more productive, diversified, competitive and resilient economy. Held at the Mövenpick…",
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}