Ghana's government has introduced about 22 laws in the past 18 months to make its economic reforms harder to undo, Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson has said.
He said the aim is to stop future governments from reversing recent gains and taking the country back to the hardship of the 2022 to 2024 economic crisis.
The work involves new laws, repeals and amendments. The government is also seeking changes that would require a two-thirds majority in Parliament to alter some of the laws.
Dr Forson pointed to amendments to the Public Financial Management Act, the main law on how public money is planned, spent and reported. "Some of the things we are doing are being institutionalised and we are putting it into law to lock in the sustainability," he said.
He was speaking at a New Economy engagement at the University of Ghana, in reply to Prof Fred Dzanku of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research. He said policies are easy to change when they are not backed by law.