{"id":1210700,"date":"2022-09-25T16:21:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T16:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/25\/imf-mission-to-visit-ghana-from-september-26-to-october-7\/"},"modified":"2022-09-25T16:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T16:21:42","slug":"imf-mission-to-visit-ghana-from-september-26-to-october-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/25\/imf-mission-to-visit-ghana-from-september-26-to-october-7\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF mission to visit Ghana from September 26 to October 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team will be in Ghana from September 26 to October 7 to continue discussions with the government on policies and reforms that could be supported by a lending arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>IMF staff will also further engage with other stakeholders during the visit.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF team will be led by St\u00e9phane Roudet, the Mission Chief for Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The last IMF mission to Ghana was between July 6 and July 13, 2022, to assess the economic situation and discuss the broad lines of the government\u2019s Enhanced Domestic Program that could be supported by an IMF lending arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF team met with Vice President Bawumia, Finance Minister Ofori-Atta, and the Governor of the Bank of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The team also met with the Parliament\u2019s Finance Committee, civil society organizations, and development partners, including UNICEF and the World Bank to engage on social spending.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is currently looking to secure a $3 billion loan from the IMF.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=\/QLOxC-mwWME\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=\/QLOxC-mwWME<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team will be in Ghana from September 26 to October 7 to continue discussions with the government on policies and reforms that could be supported by a lending arrangement. IMF staff will also further engage with other stakeholders during the visit. The IMF team will be led by St\u00e9phane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210700","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=1210700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}