{"id":624698,"date":"2019-05-25T11:53:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T11:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"post-517186\"><header>\n<div class=\"entry-post-meta\">\n\n<p>Date: <time content=\"2019-05-25T11:09:54+00:00\" class=\"entry-date updated\" datetime=\"2019-05-25T11:09:54+00:00\">May 25, 2019 11:09am<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div> \n<\/header><div class=\"entry-content"},"modified":"2019-05-25T11:53:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T11:53:24","slug":"total-public-debt-stock-nearly-ghc200-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/25\/total-public-debt-stock-nearly-ghc200-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Total public debt stock nearly GHc200 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-517186\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"entry-post-meta\">\n<p>Date: <time content=\"2019-05-25T11:09:54+00:00\" class=\"entry-date updated\" datetime=\"2019-05-25T11:09:54+00:00\">May 25, 2019 11:09am<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/Bank-of-Ghana-building.jpg\" alt=\"Total public debt stock nearly GHc200 billion\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The Bank of Ghana\u2019s latest economic data published has shown that the country\u2019s total public debt is just GHS2 billion shy of hitting GHc200 billion.<\/p>\n<p>While the nominal debt figure continues to rise, when measured as a percentage of GDP, the debt is 57.5 percent of GDP, as of March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The data published on Friday evening shows that in the first three months of 2019, GHS21.4 billion was added onto the public debt.<\/p>\n<p>The debt accumulation in 2019 is inclusive of the proceeds of the US$3 billion Eurobond the government had issued in March.<\/p>\n<p>The growing public debt feeds into the rising interest payments the government pays on its borrowings.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, the country is to pay in excess of GHS21 billion in interest on its debt in 2019 alone.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>  <\/p>\n<\/div>\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>Date: May 25, 2019 11:09am The Bank of Ghana\u2019s latest economic data published has shown that the country\u2019s total public debt is just GHS2 billion shy of hitting GHc200 billion. 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