A budget analysis of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) has shown that 99.51 per cent of its allocation goes into two social protection programmes, leaving 0.49 per cent for running the ministry. The School Feeding Programme and the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP), two social protection programmes under the ministry, swallow […]
As Ghana joined the rest of the world in celebrating World Poverty Eradication Day yesterday, its scorecards on poverty reduction and inequality are showing contradictory tales, with more than 2.4 million people living in extreme poverty. Experts also say the economy is growing, with poverty reducing, while inequality is increasing, as the gap between the […]
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the ruling New Patriotic Party cannot take credit for social intervention programmes in the country as they only came to change names of already existing ones. The party says interventions such as the Metro Mass Transit (MMT) and the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) initiatives were the Omni […]
