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Ghana is ranked 130th in the 2020 World Bank Human Capital Index. The country made little gains in the index which has been extended to cover 174 countries. According to the report, the government used data to effectively re-target school feeding efforts under the Ghana School Feeding Program (GSFP) after it found that the targeted population was not being reached. However, more need to be done to improve its rankings. The nation fared better than South Africa and Nigeria. Data from the national poverty statistics and food security and vulnerability analysis were combined to improve targeting and reduce leakages.
The country’s progress in decreasing impediments has also been largely due to the multi-sectoral approach taken by policy makers.

Ghana’s 2020 cocoa light crop season would end at the close of business today, Thursday, September 17, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) announced in a statement released in Accra. The statement, signed by COCOBOD Chief Executive, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, said in order to assist the Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs) to obtain the final returns from upcountry stations, the Ghana Cocoa Board has decided that returns on the declared purchases will be accepted up to 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 24, 2020.Cocoa farmers will earn more for their produce in the next cocoa season than they currently receive for the same output of beans in the ongoing season. It follows plans by the government, through the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), to raise the cocoa producer price (CPI) paid to cocoa farmers by more than 21% for the 2020/21 season.

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Ghana will in the short to medium term have auto photo maps whereby the entire country will be mapped to serve as a basis for the digitization of the lands in the country. Already all maps in Greater Accra have been scanned and are undergoing digitization. This, according to the Lands Commission, forms part of efforts to address the long-standing issues associated with acquiring and owning land in Ghana. A robust land administration system provides opportunities to unlock the productive capacity of land.

Ghana Government has established a tripartite technical committee to come out with modalities to implement the National Unemployment Insurance Scheme announced in the mid-year budget statement. Mr Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, said the scheme, when operational, would focus on providing direct income support to workers who lost their jobs or suffered pay cuts in the event of a social or economic crisis. He said the scheme would offer opportunities for training, re-training, job search support, apprenticeship and internships to enable those who lost their jobs to re-adjust. The Minister, at a media briefing in Accra on Wednesday, said the total unemployment rate had reduced from 11.9 percent, per the Ghana Living Standard Survey Six (GLSS Six) to 8.4 percent (GLSS Seven).

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