{"id":469653,"date":"2018-03-04T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T12:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/04\/imf-to-pass-ghana-based-on-governments-commitment-economist\/"},"modified":"2018-03-04T12:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T12:15:58","slug":"imf-to-pass-ghana-based-on-governments-commitment-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/04\/imf-to-pass-ghana-based-on-governments-commitment-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF to pass Ghana based on government\u2019s commitment &#8211; Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Sunday,  4 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citibusinessnews.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-03-04<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/46532347.295.jpg\" alt=\"Lord Mensah Ect\" title=\"Lord Mensah Ect\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Dr. Lord Mensah, Economist<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1520165758_418_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Economist, Dr. Lord Mensah is optimistic an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission currently in Ghana may pass the government in its assessment based on the country\u2019s commitment at meeting benchmark targets.<\/p>\n<p>An IMF mission on Thursday[March 1, 2018] met with Parliament\u2019s Finance Committee to discuss Ghana\u2019s performance ahead of a board assessment in April to pave way for Ghana to receive about thirty-six million dollars disbursement.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of Parliament\u2019s Finance Committee, Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah after the meeting was hopeful the mission will grant Ghana a clean bill of health.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana entered into an agreement with the IMF in 2015 for a three-year aid deal worth around $1 billion aimed at restoring fiscal stability to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Citi Business News, economist, Dr. Lord Mensah maintained that the mission will base its assessment on government\u2019s commitment and not necessarily achieving the exact target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the number of years this government has been in power and the rate at which the macro indicators have been coming down, and then in terms of budget deficit and how they have managed to bring it down, the IMF has no choice as diplomatic mission, than to say keep it going,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that even though the mission is keen on meeting benchmark targets, it also looks out for country\u2019s that show real intentions of meeting the target.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mensah was of the view that government has done well in following some basic economic principles to control the macro-economic figures.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained that the demonstration to achieve the target is good enough to secure a pass and hence approval for disbursement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith IMF, I don\u2019t think the target is always the issue, but the efforts towards the target is sometimes what they look at. If they are looking at the efforts towards the target I presume that they will give this government a pass, but the future is also uncertain,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 39 updated by: 39 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Sunday, 4 March 2018 Source: citibusinessnews.com 2018-03-04 Dr. Lord Mensah, Economist Economist, Dr. Lord Mensah is optimistic an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission currently in Ghana may pass the government in its assessment based on the country\u2019s commitment at meeting benchmark targets. An IMF mission on Thursday[March 1, 2018] met with Parliament\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":455589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}