Contents : Overview:global economics developments and Ghana's economic -- Performance -- introduction -- Global economics performance -- World employment trends -- Development in crude and food prices -- Output growth and economic performance in Africa -- Economic performance in Ghana -- Sectoral performance -- Fiscal developments: Monetary and financial developments: External sector developments -- Lessons and policy implications -- Outlook for Ghana's economy -- Fiscal developments -- Introduction -- Fiscal policy measures -- Trends in fiscal outcomes -- Trends in government revenue -- Developments in oil and gas revenue -- Tax and non-tax revenue -- International trade taxes -- Trends in government payments -- Composition of payments -- Recurrent and capital payments -- Targets versus out-turn for government revenue and expenditure -- Ghana's debt situation -- Outlook -- Monetary and financial developments: Introduction -- Overview of monetary and financial policy outcomes in 2012 -- Trends in money supply growth -- Trends in inflation -- Trends in interest rates -- Foreign exchange market developments -- Assets and liabilities of DMBs -- Trends in domestic credit -- Financial deepening -- Inflows of private remittances -- Non-banking financial institutions -- rural community banks (RCBs) -- Ghana stock exchange -- Outlook -- International trade and payments: Introduction -- Trade sector performance -- Balance of payments -- Openness to trade in commodities -- Key export commodities: cocoa,mineral,timber and timber products -- Non-traditional exports -- Direction of trade -- Origin of imports -- Destination of exports -- Exchange rate developments -- External debt and capital flows -- Trade sector initiatives in 2012 -- Outlook -- Agricultural sector: Introduction -- Policy initiative and implementation in 2012 -- Agricultural mechanization -- Fertilizer and seed subsidy programme -- Irrigation development -- Livestock production technologies -- Youth in agriculture programme (YIAP) -- Extension service -- Performance of the agricultural sub-sector -- Food crops -- Cocoa production -- Livestock and poultry -- Agricultural inputs sale outlets and volume of imports of ago-chemicals -- Food supply and demand -- Food prices -- Agricultural sector expenditure -- Expenditure for 2011 and 2012 -- Conclusion -- Outlook -- Industrial sector: Introduction -- Overview of the recent performance of the industrial sector -- The Mining and quarrying sub-sector -- Production and export of minerals other than oil and gas -- Manufacturing sub-sector -- Electricity sub-sector -- water and sewerage sub-sector -- Construction sub-sector -- Employment generated by the industrial sector -- Outlook -- References -- Services sector: Introduction -- performance of the service sector and its sub-sectors -- Development in the service sector -- Social service -- Total number of school available -- Special interventions in the educational sector in 2012 -- Health sector -- Economic services -- Metro mass transit -- maritime traffic --Railway sub-sector -- Aviation sub-sector -- information and communication technology(ICT) services -- Tourism sub-sector - Outlook -- Ghana's economics performance following the economic reforms of the 1980s: Introduction -- The per-reform situation -- Changing course:economic reforms -- Responsiveness to the reforms -- The Growth and income record -- The Human development and poverty picture -- Capital formation,productivity and education -- Structural transformation -- The Role of external aid -- Caveats and reflections -- The imbalances challenge -- Conclusion -- References -- Sharing Ghana's economics growth:the challenges of the north-south -- Divide and the accumulation of FDI&external debt -- Development policies since independence -- Sharing Ghana's growth:poverty reduction and the north-south divide -- Sharing Ghana's growth:accumulation of FDI&external debt -- Social accounting matrix 2006 and simulation of the economy 2006-2011 -- Implications for Ghana shared and development agenda (GSGDA) -- Reference