This growing interest has been motivated by a desire to make assessments of how far we are from our national objectives, be they on growth, inflation, income distribution and incidence of extreme poverty or how distant or close we are to the Millennium Development Goals.
All this requires a robust and responsive statistical system to monitor developments and to allow policy changes to meet changing demands. Mr. Chairman, statistics do not only serve national purposes but they have global implications and it is a significant development that Ghana has become part of the GDDS platform. The GDDS requires a good set of principles for routine data dissemination.