Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

With this 2005 version of Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy papers, the nation is called upon to define anew the programmes of National Development that it wishes to pursue in support of its current social and political aspirations. The turn-around in Ghana’s economic fortunes which has come about with the new century, offers the opportunity to achieve faster the existing goals of development policy, or to enlarge them or to do both. But the march of history and ideas also moves us to consider whether entirely new goals have come within our grasp, or that our priorities should be substantially re-ordered.