Ghanaians believe the country is heading in wrong direction – Afrobarometer survey

According to the latest Afrobarometer survey on Economy, public services and taxation, the majority of Ghanaians believe the country is going in the wrong direction. In addition to this, respondents gave negative assessments of the country’s economic condition and their personal living conditions, according to Research Director Elorm Selormey of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana).

“You can see from there that only 11% of Ghanaians say the country is going in the right direction,” she said when presenting the research report at a forum on Wednesday.

She stated that the study also showed that there has been a “15% drop since 2017” in relation to economic conditions.

Dr. Selormey added that “the only time we saw that kind of dip was in 2014 when we conducted a survey and of course, it went up beyond the 15, almost 35 % in 2019 and has dropped so steeply to 11% in 3 years.”

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The study reveals that the majority of Ghanaians believe that the Electronic Transactions Levy is a bad idea, according to CDD’s Research Director. According to the study, 74 percent of the respondents think that the levy will be burdensome. Three-fourths of the respondents disapprove of the levy, 76 percent think it’s a bad idea, and 75 percent of respondents do not believe that the government will use the revenue for development programmes.

Source: NewsGhana24