Agenda: The Vision
 
I believe that we Ghanaians CAN continuously create wealth to improve the worth and welfare of our people. We CAN together, seek to build a society of disciplined individuals with a passion for excellence. We CAN raise the average income of its citizens to $10,000 in our lifetime.

This will happen if we focus on doing things differently. Our success will also be predicated on doing different things than we have done in the past. Our immediate focus should be to ensure that all our people have access to the basic necessities of life.

I came to this conclusion during my tenure as Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission. I had the opportunity to tour all the ten regions of the country and interact with our people. I have also had the opportunity to visit South Korea, Singapore and other countries that have been able to rise from poverty conditions to become relatively prosperous nations in the past three decades.

In 2001, I decided that Ghana needed to concentrate on only four areas - Culture & Attitude; Healthy, Productive Communities; Long-Term Savings; and National Identification System in order to accelerate our development. If we get it right in these areas, and it will need good leadership, Ghana CAN be whatever it wants to be.