The Ghana Employers’ Association (GEA) on Wednesday, held a breakfast meeting with industry players in Accra, to discuss its draft Business Agenda document for the 2016-2018 years. He said in spite of these contributions, the fundamental question regarding how the country’s private sector was being developed to actually boost economic growth and reduce poverty remains unanswered. “These challenges are inimical to the growth and competitiveness of the private sector in Ghana,” he said. He said the ineffectiveness of policies, rules and regulations as well as the processes by which the public sector should support private sector activities have created many barriers to operations in the private sector. He said it was against this backdrop that the GEA Business Agenda 2016-2018, has been developed to address critical areas which are hampering the growth and competitiveness of the private sector in Ghana.