Trade and Industry Minister, Mr. Alan Kyerematen has noted that the answer to the problem of creating jobs is to be able to industrialize and also export.
He said that a key part of the government’s industrial transformation agenda was the promotion of exports.
Mr. Alan Kyerematen said this when he inaugurated a 13-member Board for the Ghana Export Promotion Authority.
The minister said If you industrialize, it means you produce and the more extensive your capacity to produce the more you are required to find a market for what you produce, but the domestic market cannot be the solution.
Mr. Kyerematen said the focus on export was important because it would allow the country to expand its productive capacity and then find a market outside the domestic market.
“If you look at the cumulative effect of the people turning up after school nobody should tell you that as a country you need to identify the opportunities to put them into sustainable jobs and we all know that the public sector cannot be the answer,” he said.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
