{"id":1139630,"date":"2022-07-01T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/01\/imf-confirms-receipt-of-ghanas-request-for-economic-support\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T19:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:00:55","slug":"imf-confirms-receipt-of-ghanas-request-for-economic-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/01\/imf-confirms-receipt-of-ghanas-request-for-economic-support\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF confirms receipt of Ghana&#8217;s request for economic support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/imf-Copy-1-696x391.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"imf (Copy)\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has confirmed to have received a request from the Ghanaian government for economic support.<\/p>\n<p>According to a tweet from its Country Representative, Albert Touna-Mama, the Fund is ready to assist the country to restore macroeconomic stability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can confirm that the authorities have been in touch to request Fund\u2019s support to Ghana\u2019s own economic programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IMF stands ready to assist Ghana to restore macroeconomics stability, safeguard debt sustainability, promote inclusive and sustainable growth\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo today directed the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, to begin formal engagements with the IMF for economic support.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, and dated July 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2022 indicated that there had already been a conversation between the IMF boss, Kristalina Georgieva and President Akufo-Addo, conveying the government\u2019s decision to engage the Fund.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"EGgoFsSxyVo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EGgoFsSxyVo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has confirmed to have received a request from the Ghanaian government for economic support. According to a tweet from its Country Representative, Albert Touna-Mama, the Fund is ready to assist the country to restore macroeconomic stability. \u201cWe can confirm that the authorities have been in touch to request Fund\u2019s support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1139632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1851,3010,250,3074,19511,5301,115],"class_list":["post-1139630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-confirms","tag-economic","tag-ghanas","tag-imf","tag-receipt","tag-request","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139630","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=1139630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}