2027 Budget diagnosis is right, but the cure is incomplete

On the evening of Thursday, November 12, 2026, the Minister for Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, when presenting the 2027 budget told Parliament that Ghana’s boom-and-bust cycles must cease. Few Ghanaians would disagree. Too many times we have lived through hope followed by hardship, a stable cedi followed by sharp depreciation, and a recovery followed by another crisis.