{"id":3994,"date":"2019-07-24T07:51:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T07:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","slug":"sdgs-vnr-poverty-declines-from-24-percent-to-23-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/24\/sdgs-vnr-poverty-declines-from-24-percent-to-23-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"SDGs VNR: Poverty Declines From 24 percent To 23 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Ghanaian Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghana has presented its first Voluntary National Review (VNR) report on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at this year\u2019s High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) at the United Nations (UN) headquarters at New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The HLPF was under the theme \u201cEmpowering people and\nensuring inclusiveness and equality\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Planning, Prof. George Gyan-Baffour, who\npresented the review report on behalf of the government, revealed that Ghana\nhad made progress on many of the SDGs targets adding that \u201coverall, poverty had\ndeclined marginally from 24 per cent&nbsp;in 2013 to 23 per cent in 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key macroeconomic indicators, including budget deficit,\ninflation and interest rates, he said, were trending downwards, adding that\ntrade balance recorded surpluses in 2017 and 2018, leading to improved balance\nof payment position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the introduction of the free Senior High School\n(SHS) flagship initiative resulted in additional 271,000 students enrolling in\nSHS for the 2017\/18 and 2018\/19 academic years adding that gender parity was\nachieved at the basic level. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanaiantimes.com.gh\/sdgs-vnr-poverty-declines-from-24-per-cent-to-23-per-cent\/\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ghanaian Times Ghana has presented its first Voluntary National Review (VNR) report on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at this year\u2019s High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}