{"id":248143,"date":"2026-10-25T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-goldbod-must-turn-job-gains-into-lasting-prosperity\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:30:10","slug":"ghana-goldbod-must-turn-job-gains-into-lasting-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-goldbod-must-turn-job-gains-into-lasting-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Goldbod Must Turn Job Gains Into Lasting Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The disclosure that reforms introduced by the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) have created 4,866 direct jobs in less than two years is welcome news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">At a time when unemployment, particularly among young people, remains a major concern, every credible opportunity to expand employment and productive economic activity deserves attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">However, the significance of the figures announced by GoldBod&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, goes beyond the number of jobs created. They raise a fundamental&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610220717.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disclosure that reforms introduced by the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) have created 4,866 direct jobs in less than two years is welcome news. At a time when unemployment, particularly among young people, remains a major concern, every credible opportunity to expand employment and productive economic activity deserves attention. However, the significance of the figures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":248144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7219,4508,4509,52223,9679,13613,257,12870,254,7101],"class_list":["post-248143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gains","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-goldbod","tag-job","tag-lasting","tag-news","tag-prosperity","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}