{"id":1139293,"date":"2022-07-01T12:32:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/01\/official-ghana-runs-to-imf-for-economic-support-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:32:36","slug":"official-ghana-runs-to-imf-for-economic-support-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/01\/official-ghana-runs-to-imf-for-economic-support-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"OFFICIAL!!! Ghana Runs To IMF For Economic Support | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana has formally requested the International Monetary Fund to support its economic program. <\/p>\n<p>It follows a telephone conversation between President Akufo-Addo and IMF Managing Director Kristalian Georgieva conveying Ghana&#8217;s decision to apply for the support fund. <\/p>\n<p>A statement issued in Accra on Friday 1st July, 2022 and signed by Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said, &#8220;<em>the engagement with the IMF will seek to provide a balance of payment support as part of a broader effort to quicken Ghana&#8217;s build back in the face of challenges induced by the Covid-19 pandemic and recently, the Russia-Ukraine crises.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ghana is a member of the IMF and recently received 1 Billion dollars for its Covid-19 response program.<\/p>\n<p>The government expects the IMF support to boost the funding sources needed to execute its economic program. <\/p>\n<p>It is expected that capital markets and friendly sovereign countries may also contribute to the program.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-133 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/122111000_943632.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1021\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/gview?url=https:\/\/media.peacefmonline.com\/docs\/202207\/752836492_749448.pdf&#038;embedded=true\" style=\"width: 90%; height: 1000px\"><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\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. 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It follows a telephone conversation between President Akufo-Addo and IMF Managing Director Kristalian Georgieva conveying Ghana&#8217;s decision to apply for the support fund. A statement issued in Accra on Friday 1st July, 2022 and signed by Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1139295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[3010,85,3074,3928,1753,1834,115],"class_list":["post-1139293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-economic","tag-ghana","tag-imf","tag-official","tag-politics","tag-runs","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139293","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=1139293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}