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InterviewsJune 30 2011

Ghana's finance minister focuses on maintaining momentum

Ghana’s finance minister, Kwabena Duffuor, is focusing on maintaining the economy’s momentum of the past 18 months and attracting more foreign investment. He is also at the forefront of efforts to ensure the country’s recently discovered oil riches are not squandered.
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Ghana's finance minister focuses on maintaining momentumKwabena Duffuor. finance minister, Ghana

Q: How big an effect will oil, which Ghana began exporting in December, have on the country's economy?

A: We are going to have both oil and gas production. And we expect that these will transform the Ghanaian economy. At the moment, we are doing very well with cocoa and gold production. With the oil and gas, we’re going to have four big commodities.

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