Convention Peoples Party, Ghana

Every society must envision where it wants to be in the future and work towards it accordingly.  The CPP’s original vision of building a just and prosperous society on the basis of a strong and diversified economy in a democratic environment was cut short by the 1966 coup.  The CPP aims to restore and pursue that vision as follows: 

Economic transformation:

Our desire to make Ghana a high-income country in one generation requires that we transform the economy on two fronts (1) From a dependence on primary commodities to a diversified and industrialised one that is globally competitive, and (2) From one of low-skills, low-productivity and low-income to a technology and knowledge-based economy characterised by high-skills, high productivity, and high incomes.  Productivity in agriculture, for example, will be raised to a point where only 5.0% of labour in agriculture can feed all Ghanaians and export part of the surplus.  The informal sector will give way to a formal sector of high social and legal protection, such as annual leave and fair treatment of all workers.

Social Transformation:

Political Transformation:

We believe that unless political power is shifted from the national level to the local, where development actually takes place, the search for real and lasting solutions to our social problems will remain illusive. We will therefore accelerate plans to elect local government officials and restrict the national government to international affairs and the provision of overall policy direction for local and national development.