A Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) survey says 61 per cent of Ghanaians think the Ghanaian government is doing badly in narrowing income gaps; 54 per cent continue to hold the view that government's economic policies have hurt most people, a decline from the 2005 figure of 67 per cent; majority of respondents in Ashanti (57%) and Eastern (52%) believe macroeconomic conditions are fairly good but only 18% in Volta think so.These statements are part of the findings of the COD-Ghana's March 2008 Afrobarometer Survey on the economic conditions in Ghana.The Afrobarometer, the fourth, also stated that the experience of poverty has broadly declined since 2002.For example, in 2002 whilst 40% of Ghanaians said they had gone without food, that percentage declined to 31% in 2008. It quoted the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS, 2006) as having reported a decline in extreme poverty level from 37% in 1991 to 19% in 2006. Source: Daily Dispatch