President John Dramani Mahama has used this year’s International Workers’ Day to declare that Ghana’s macroeconomic recovery is complete and that the government is now focused on converting that stability into tangible gains for working people.
In a message issued on Friday, May 1, the President said his administration’s Reset Ghana agenda had successfully restored macroeconomic order, and that the priority had shifted to growth and expansion rather than stabilisation alone.
He framed the moment as one of transition, from defending the economy against further deterioration to actively growing it in ways that reach ordinary workers. The President described Ghanaian workers as the engine of national transformation and said government policy would now be judged by whether its benefits reach people’s pockets.
The message arrives at a moment of tension between official economic optimism and the concerns of organised labour. The Trades Union Congress (TUC), speaking at its 2026 May Day Forum in Accra, acknowledged improvements in headline indicators but warned that falling inflation and better fiscal figures had yet to translate into a meaningful reduction in the cost of living for most working Ghanaians.
