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Contents :Overview:global economic developments and Ghana's economic performance: Introduction -- Global economic performance -- World employment trends -- Development in crude and food prices -- Output growth and economic performance in Africa -- Economic outlook for sub-Saharan Africa -- Eurozone crisis and sub-Saharan Africa -- Economic performance in Ghana -- Sectoral performance -- Fiscal developments -- Monetary and financial developments -- External sector developments -- Lessons and policy implications -- Fiscal development: Introduction -- Fiscal policy measures -- Trends in fiscal outcomes -- Trends in government revenue -- General trends -- sources of revenue -- Development in oil and gas revenue -- Tax and non-tax revenue -- Direct taxes -- Indirect taxes -- International trade taxes -- Non-tax revenue (excluding grants) -- Trend in government payments -- Composition of payments -- Discretionary and statutory spending -- Discretionary payment -- Statutory payments -- Recurrent and capital payment -- Targets versus out-turn for government revenue and expenditure -- Ghana's debt situation -- Outlook -- Monetary and financial developments: Introduction -- Overview of monetary and financial policy outcomes in 2011 -- Trends in money supply growth -- Trends in inflation -- Trends in interest rates -- Foreign exchange market developments -- Assets and liabilities of DMBs -- Trends in domestic credit -- Financial deepening -- Inflows of private remittances -- Non-bank financial institutions -- Rural community banks (RCBs) -- Ghana stock exchange -- Outlook -- Trade sector performance: Balance of Payments -- Openness to trade in commodities -- Key export commodities -- Non-traditional exports -- Direction of trade -- Origin of Import -- Destination of export -- Exchange rate developments -- External debt and capital flows -- Trade sector initiatives in 2011 -- Outlook -- Agriculture sector: Introduction -- Policy initiatives and implementation in 2011 -- Fertilizer subsidy programme -- Irrigation development -- Buffer stock management -- Seed improvement and quality and quality standardization -- Sustainable management of land environment -- Agriculture mechanization -- Youth in agriculture programme (YIAP) -- Nutrition -- Increase competitiveness,improved growth in incomes and reduced -- Income variability -- Ghana commercial agriculture project (GCAP) -- Cocoa -- Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) -- Performance of the agriculture sector in 2011 -- Contribution to the Ghanaian economy -- Performance of sub-sector - Food crops -- Cocoa production -- Livestock and poultry -- Agriculture input sale outlets and volume of imports of agrochemical -- Food supply and demand -- Food price -- Agriculture sector expenditure -- Expenditure for 2012 and 2010 -- Conclusion -- Outlook -- Industrial sector: Introduction -- Performance of industrial sector -- The energy sub-sector -- Power -- Petroleum -- Water -- Construction -- Mining and quarrying -- Manufacturing -- Foreign investment trends -- Interest rate and credit allocation trends -- Outlook -- Services sector: Introduction -- Performance of the sub-sector within the service sector -- Development in the services sector-social services -- Gross enrollment ratio -- Gross admission ratio -- Net admission ratio -- Total number of school available -- Special performance :-pass rate for core subject (BECE and WASSCE,2005 to 2010) -- Special interventions in the educational sector in 2011 -- Health sector -- Economic service -- Metro mass transit limited -- Information and communication technology (ICT) services -- Maritime traffic in Ghana -- Railway traffic in Ghana -- Outlook -- Youth entrepreneurship: a catalyst for youth development? -- Introduction - Entrepreneurship and economic development -- Relevance of youth entrepreneurship -- Youth entrepreneurship policies and programmes in Ghana -- Factors affecting youth entrepreneurship -- Promoting youth entrepreneurship in Ghana -- Entrepreneurship education and training -- Sociocultural attitude towards youth entrepreneurs -- Access to finance -- Business assistance and support -- Improve regulatory and administrative framework -- Conclusion.