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Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama, who completed a historic comeback by returning to office eight years after the end of his first term, this week marked 100 days since his second inauguration.
The most high-profile policies of Mahama 2.0 include scrapping unpopular taxes on electronic transactions, betting, and emissions that he said hit the poorest Ghanaians hardest. His administration has also created a new gold regulator to better control supply chains connected to one of the country’s main exports, and set up the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) anti-corruption task force.
Easing Ghana’s recovery after its worst economic crisis in a generation is the biggest challenge ahead. “So far, President Mahama has carefully managed a balance between reducing short-term borrowing pressures and controlling inflation,” Dennis Asare, an analyst at the Imani think tank in Accra, told Semafor. He said Mahama’s administration hoped to create more fiscal space “to deliver more social protection and address the high cost of living by cutting unpopular taxes.”
