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During his vetting in January 2025, the Finance Minister, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, set out clear benchmarks for how he wanted his tenure to be judged.
He said, “Mr Chairman, I want to be remembered as the one who helped to reduce prices, stabilised the currency and created jobs.”
One year on, it is worth examining the data to assess how much progress has been made on two of those core commitments: reducing prices and stabilising the exchange rate.
JoyNews’s Evans Mensah analysed the evidence on PM Express. Watch here:
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