The event attended by the President of Zambia, President of Guinea, Vice President of Cote d'Ivoire, UNIDO Director-General, UNCTAD Secretary-General, African Union Trade Commissioner, among other global leaders was on the theme promoting innovation and infrastructure development: a pathway for boosting manufacturing in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Ghana’s Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kyerematen indicated that African countries must adopt innovative financing models to close the infrastructure gap in order to leapfrog to the fourth Industrial Revolution stage.
He stated that under the Akufo-Addo administration, Ghana is leveraging its natural resources to develop business-related infrastructures such as Industrial Parks and Special Economic Zones, Railways and ICT infrastructure.
Mr Kyerematen who is an International Trade Expert stated that poor infrastructure in sub-Saharan African countries adds about 35% to the cost of goods traded among countries in the region. In his view, one of the ways to make local businesses competitive at the global stage is to enhance access to both soft and hard quality infrastructure.
In this regard, Hon. Kyerematen invited the private sector to partner multilateral institutions to raise affordable capital to finance infrastructure projects in order to facilitate industrial development to take advantage of the growing African middle-class consumers.
Mr Alan Kyerematen later joined the Ministerial Panel as African representative at the Global Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit at the United Nations Headquarters.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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The wow is the difference between npp and ndc. Ndc was in power for 8 years but never did we see anything like this. Ndc were always accorded the back seat because even their personality tells it all and such people think Ghana is their bona-fide property and sonebody has gotten it from them so they staging a coup to come back hw3 wonho bi look at Otukorno, Asiedu Nketiah, Sammy Gyamfi, Akamba, Akando, Samson Ahi, Adongo frafra etc these are the team john mahama need power urgently to rule Ghana ! 2020 is Ghana vrs ndc unless you kill every Ghanaian before you will get pow
The WOW is the diversity of competence the NPP has in store for Ghana. You can look everywhere in the political space in Ghana and they are there in abundance to see. NDC is dead in arrival, come 2020-elections.
IT LOOKS LIKE THE THE GUY IS WORKING HARD IN NANA AKUFFO ADDO GOVERNMENT TO GIVE A GOOD IMAGE FOR GHANA. FULEFU PEOPLE ARE NOT INVITED TO SPEAK AT UN. ONLY THE WELL TESTED AND WIDELY APPROVED POLICY AND STRATEGIES ARE SUPPORTED BY UN. KUDOS ALAN, KUDOS NANA, KUDOS OTUMFUO. YOU HAVE MADE GHANA PROUD AND WE ENCOURAGE YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK
SO WHERE IS THE WOW! IN THIS?