Graduate unemployment is still a challenge to the government because over 300,000 students graduate from tertiary institutions in Ghana every year, Mr. Alan John Kyerematen, Minister for Trade and Industry has said.
In view of that, he said the government and African Development Bank were constructing Business Resource Centres (BRCs) in some selected districts in the country to grow small and micro-scale businesses to create employment.
He added that the government considered the private sector as the engine of growth and would provide the necessary atmosphere to enable it to lead the development of the economy.
Mr. Kyerematen disclosed this when he inaugurated a GHC3,000,000.00 Business Resource Centre(BRC), funded by the Government and African Development Bank, at Konongo-Odumase.
He urged the private sector to concentrate on the non-traditional export sector such as salt, fish, plantain and yam production and processing, to expand the economy and absorb the unemployed.
He hinted that 37 BRCs out of the 67 which the government was building across the country have been completed.
BRCs have been mandated by the government to help small and micro-scale enterprises to develop a comprehensive business plan that would assist the enterprises to secure loans from banks to grow the business and market their products.
Randy Mensah Akrong, ISD
