{"id":330182,"date":"2024-08-19T07:41:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T07:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=330182"},"modified":"2024-08-19T07:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T07:41:26","slug":"bawumia-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/news\/politics\/bawumia-border\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll create special economic zones at Ghana\u2019s major border towns -Dr. Bawumia\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: Godfred Amoaful <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia<\/a> says the next New Patriotic Party (NPP), government will create special economic zones in border towns such as Aflao, Paga, and Elubo to enhance economic activity, increase exports, reduce smuggling, and create jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said his next government will do this through private-sector partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NPP Presidential Candidate also said the party will establish an SME bank to address the financial needs of Small and Medium Enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these will form part of his government\u2019s concentration on business growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are going to establish an SME bank to meet the special financing needs of Small and Medium Entreprises which will employ over 80 percent of Ghanaians,\u201d Dr. Bawumia reiterated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were contained in his presentation at the 2024 NPP Manifesto Launch in Takoradi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More stories here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Godfred Amoaful  Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says the next New Patriotic Party (NPP), government will create special economic zones in border towns such as Aflao, Paga, and Elubo to enhance economic activity, increase exports, reduce smuggling, and create jobs.\u00a0 He said his next government will do this through private-sector partnerships. The NPP Presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":330166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,24,25,2773],"tags":[5118,5874,21821],"class_list":["post-330182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-business","category-news","category-trending","tag-bawumia","tag-border","tag-economic-zones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/bawumia-mani.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330183,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330182\/revisions\/330183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}