{"id":427685,"date":"2026-01-23T08:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427685\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:48:18","slug":"president-mahama-shares-ghanas-economic-recovery-story-in-davos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427685\/","title":{"rendered":"President Mahama shares Ghana&#8217;s economic recovery story in Davos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/President-Mahama-shares-Ghana-s-economic-recovery-story-in-Davos-2018460?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/97948759.295.jpg\" alt=\"John Dramani Mahama is Ghana's President\" title=\"John Dramani Mahama is Ghana's President\" width=\"295\" height=\"189\" \/> <\/a>John Dramani Mahama is Ghana&#8217;s President<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1349\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1349\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Dramani Mahama<\/a> says Ghana\u2019s economy has made a remarkable recovery, achieving single-digit inflation, a stronger currency, and renewed business confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, January 22, 2026, he said these results demonstrate that focused, accountable leadership can deliver real change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/FULL-TEXT-President-Mahama-s-speech-at-his-maiden-media-encounter-2000193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FULL TEXT: President Mahama&#8217;s speech at his maiden media encounter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re resetting our country, we&#8217;re cutting waste, we&#8217;re restoring hope, and we&#8217;re building systems that work. In my first year back in office, we&#8217;ve shown that democracy works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that change is possible when leadership is focused and accountable to the people. From a debt-distressed, crisis-ridden economy, we&#8217;ve achieved an impressive turnaround with a stable macro-economy, characterized by single-digit inflation, a strengthened currency, and increased business confidence,\u201d Mahama said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/LIVESTREAMING-President-Mahama-leads-039-Accra-Reset-039-session-at-World-Economic-Forum-2018419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LIVESTREAMED: President Mahama leads &#8216;Accra Reset&#8217; session at World Economic Forum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, he emphasised that Ghana\u2019s success is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot be a jewel isolated in a continent facing debt and development challenges. Africa must work together, knitting together its patchwork of success stories,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama called for scaling effective initiatives across Africa and the Global South, moving \u201cfrom resetting one country to transforming the development model for the entire region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">&#8220;In my first year of being back in the o\ufb03ce[as President], we[Ghana] have shown that democracy works and that change is possible when leadership is focused and accountable to the people.&#8221; &#8211; H.E. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1349\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1349\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Dramani Mahama<\/a> (President of the Republic of Ghana)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WoezorTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WoezorTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AccraReset?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AccraReset<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/doLPVuxzOa\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/doLPVuxzOa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WoezorTV (@WoezorTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WoezorTV\/status\/2014391552190120391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 22, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>JKB\/MA<\/p>\n<p>TrendingGH: Circle Fire survivors and witnesses share experiences <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Dramani Mahama is Ghana&#8217;s President President John Dramani Mahama says Ghana\u2019s economy has made a remarkable recovery,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-427685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}