“We need a new financial architecture; it will strengthen the voice of African countries. […] So to have an equal voice, dear colleagues, I need you to have equal representation. So the decision-making is part of it. And we need to change the existing financial architecture,” Selasi Koffi Ackom, chief executive officer of the Ghana International Trade & Finance Conference, stresses.
"African countries, including Ghana, have magnificent resource endowment. When we talk about the paradox of the plenty, the resource endowment is yet to be translated into productive economic growth. The latter being essential for a country to mobilize public finance through, of course, export and, of course, being able to have access to the financial market," says Ngone Diop, director of the Economic Commission for Africa, Sub-Regional Office for West Africa, based in Niamey, Niger.