However, on the flip side fo the savings coin is that continued consumer spending drives
out national economic growth and in many cases sustainability.
Not exact matches
If it turned
out that in the twenty years after 1965 continuing
growth of GNP had not been accompanied by improved
economic welfare, then surely it was time for a
national discussion of how welfare could be improved.
The resort to thinly - veiled attacks on past regimes and the effort made to run down their contributions towards
economic growth and
national development as a whole has long since fallen
out of favour with the Ghanaian public.
The data is unambiguous on current
economic conditions - GDP
growth in the last quarter of 2015 was a meager 2.11 % with full year
growth of 2.79 % according to the
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS); inflation rose sharply to 11.4 % in February with prospects of reaching 12 % by March; capital markets have remained bearish; according to UNCTAD Nigeria's FDI fell by 27.7 % to $ 3.4 billion in 2015, and on current trends may fall even more precipitously in 2016; the de facto exchange rate of the Naira for most producers and consumers is now N322 / $ even though CBN maintains a nominal N197 / $ for privileged persons; several
economic sectors - construction, government, manufacturing, oil and gas and hotels and restaurants are in recession or barely
out of it; government's official foreign reserves is down to $ 27.8 bn; and unemployment and under - employment rates have worsened 10.4 % and 18.7 % by the end of 2015.
It has healthy household incomes and its 8.3 % unemployment rate (close to the
national average) is on a downward trend, mainly because Guelph has rolled
out an
Economic Development and Tourism Strategy, encouraging
growth in key sectors such as the life sciences, biotechnology, agri - food firms, environmental and high - tech.
As Australia's Ambassador for the Environment, Peter Woolcott, pointed
out at a recent public forum at ANU Crawford School, views will diverge about «what Australia can realistically achieve given its unique
national circumstances and characteristics, including its resource endowment, and
economic and population
growth».