{"id":1085972,"date":"2022-05-13T11:10:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T11:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/13\/govt-will-find-other-ways-of-handling-debt-without-going-to-imf-ken-ofori-atta-business-news\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T11:10:15","slug":"govt-will-find-other-ways-of-handling-debt-without-going-to-imf-ken-ofori-atta-business-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/13\/govt-will-find-other-ways-of-handling-debt-without-going-to-imf-ken-ofori-atta-business-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t Will Find Other Ways of Handling Debt Without Going To IMF \u2013 Ken Ofori-Atta | Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta whiles addressing Ghana&#8217;s current economic situation on Thursday said the Nana Addo-led government was committed to not seeking International Monetary Fund (IMF) assistance to relieve its debt.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>This comes months after the government announced a raft of spending cuts to tackle inflation, reduce the deficit, restore a depreciating local currency and reassure spooked investors.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><em>&#8220;We have committed to not going back to the fund because . . . the fund knows we are in the right direction,&#8221;<\/em> he said at a media conference.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Adding that,<em> &#8220;It\u2019s about validating the program we have in place and finding other ways of handling our debt without going to the fund.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo\/peacefmonline.com\/ghana<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta whiles addressing Ghana&#8217;s current economic situation on Thursday said the Nana Addo-led government was committed to not seeking International Monetary Fund (IMF) assistance to relieve its debt.\u00a0This comes months after the government announced a raft of spending cuts to tackle inflation, reduce the deficit, restore a depreciating local currency and reassure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1085974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2009,1580,288,225,13360,3074,2087,86,2089,573],"class_list":["post-1085972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-debt","tag-find","tag-govt","tag-handling","tag-imf","tag-ken","tag-news","tag-oforiatta","tag-ways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}