President John Dramani Mahama has urged Japanese corporations to put money into Ghana, saying the nation is open for enterprise and presents a strategic gateway to West Africa and the African continent.
He made the decision at a high-level Presidential Funding Discussion board held in Yokohama, Japan, on the sidelines of the ninth Tokyo Worldwide Convention on African Improvement (TICAD-9).
The discussion board, which introduced collectively greater than 100 Japanese corporations, was organised by the Centre in partnership with Ghana’s Ministry of International Affairs, the Ghana Export Promotion Authority, the Ministry of Commerce, Business and Agribusiness, and the Japan Exterior Commerce Organisation.
President Mahama mentioned Ghana was able to assist Japanese traders with fast-track approvals, sovereign ensures, blended financing frameworks, and entry to industrial websites.
He inspired Japanese companies to enter into native content material and know-how switch agreements to assist practice Ghanaian employees and managers.
The Chief Government Officer of the Ghana Funding Promotion Centre (GIPC), Mr Simon Madjie, highlighted Ghana’s transformative financial agenda and pointed to 2 flagship programmes, the Large Push Agenda and the 24-Hour Economic system and Accelerated Improvement Programme, as key drivers of funding.
He added that Ghana had launched investor-friendly measures, resembling streamlined approval processes, one-stop investor companies, revisions to the GIPC Act to take away minimal capital necessities for international traders, in addition to entry to sovereign ensures and industrial websites.
By: Jacob Aggrey
