Joe Jackson, a financial analyst with Dalex Finance, has endorsed remarks made by Pierre Laporte, the country director for the World Bank, who stated that the people and the country's leadership are responsible for finding answers to Ghana's economic crisis.

He made the categorical claim that Mr. Laporte had accurately described how Ghana could achieve economic freedom.

"The World Bank Director has spoken the basic truth," wrote Joe Jackson in a tweet.

Ghanaians and our leadership are responsible for finding a solution to the country's economic dilemma. Take tough decisions to fix Ghana, which is broken.

The World Bank Country Director at the relaunch of the World Bank, IMF parliamentary network programme said inasmuch as the Bretton Woods institution was poised to financially support Ghana, the way forward to having a thriving economy was based on government and Ghanaians as a whole.

“Today, we bring approximately $500 million annually in support of various sectors including roads, energy, water, health, education and skills, governance, name it….to assist to improve the business environment. But in the end we are only part of the solution, Mr. Laporte said.

“The solution really lies with Ghana, Ghana, and its people. We will be there with whatever we can do to support the new thinking to contribute to the development and to provide financing”, he added.

Meanwhile, Ghana is targeting an amount of $3 billion over a three-year period from the IMF once an agreement on a programme is reached.

The new amount requested as a loan is double the government’s initial target of $1.5 billion.

The IMF programme is aimed at restoring macroeconomic stability and safeguarding debt sustainability among many others.