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 * Ghana: **

Ghana is now being considered one of the leading western African countries. In the recent years it has developed its economy well enough so that it could meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) before the 2015 deadline. Over the past two decades, Ghana's economy has grown at an annual rate of 4.8%. Despite all of the advancements made, Ghana is still one of the poorest rural countries in Africa. The northern, drought-stricken part of Ghana lacks water, lacks a sufficient growing season, and less resources all together. The southern part of Ghana has two growing seasons, and has more economic opportunities. Just over half the country’s population lives in rural areas. The poorest parts of Ghana are the north savannah regions, where they lack food supply is widespread and the lives of its people are more vulnerable. Poor rural people have limited access to basic social services, water, roads that are accessible all year, electricity and telephone services. Poverty is the strongest among crop farmers. Ghana has many ways in which they can improve the living conditions for the poor. One way in which Ghana can improve poverty is to help farmers produce more crop per year. This will dramatically enhance the amount of money the farmers make, thus allowing them to grow more crop per year. The more crop that the farmers can produce per year, the more food the poorer people of Ghana will have. Another way in which Ghana can lower the poverty level and improve conditions of living is to give crop farmers easier access to roads, for the transportation of their goods to markets. If crop farmers have easier access to road systems, it will allow them to transport larger amounts of crops to the towns market. This will give the people easier access to crops, and make the cost of transportation less for farmers. Another way in which Ghana can improve their standard of living, is to supply the crop farmers with water and fertilizer for the farmers. In the savannah regions of Ghana, water is lacking. If the government could supply farmers with wells, they could reduce the amount of drought in Ghana, allowing the farmers to grow crop year round, rather than when rain permits.

 Ghana is on the fast track to recovery. Between 1990 and 2004, Ghana outperformed all countries globally in reducing hunger by 75 percent. It’s also making great strides to reduce the number of people living in poverty. This being said, it is not believe that Ghana needs interaction from foreign government. In the past years, Ghana has shown that it can stand on its own as a country. The government gives 10% of its yearly budget to improve agriculture, more than half of the other countries in Africa. There is still room for improvement in Ghana, but foreign involvement in Ghana is not needed. In the next 10 years, Ghana is expected to grow even further as an economy. By 2015, Ghana will meet the MDG deadline. In 10 years, it is expected that Ghana will have even more growth, and will be continuing to further develop its economy.