{"id":1211340,"date":"2022-09-26T17:56:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/26\/government-puts-together-post-covid-19-economic-programme-to-guide-imf-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T17:56:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:56:36","slug":"government-puts-together-post-covid-19-economic-programme-to-guide-imf-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/26\/government-puts-together-post-covid-19-economic-programme-to-guide-imf-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Government puts together post COVID-19 Economic programme to guide IMF negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Government says it is putting together a post COVID-19 Economic programme which will form the basis for negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.\u00a0 This was captured in a press statement released by the Finance Ministry on 26th<\/sup> September, 2022.<\/p>\n

According to the ministry, the programme seeks to establish a macro-fiscal path that ensures debt sustainability and macroeconomic stability underpinned by key structural reforms and social protection.<\/p>\n

The statement maintained that the Ministry of Finance, and the Bank of Ghana have commenced discussions with the IMF for an IMF-supported programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cA key prerequisite for a programme is confirmation that Ghana\u2019s debt is on a sustainable path; this will require a comprehensive Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA), which is currently ongoing\u201d the Finance ministry added.<\/p>\n

It also disclosed that \u201cgovernment negotiations with respect to the IMF-supported programme is commencing this week and we are optimistic about making progress in our discussions\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment remains committed, and shall continue to actively engage all stakeholders, both public and private, in a clear and transparent manner as we seek to fast-track this process\u201d, it added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Government says it is putting together a post COVID-19 Economic programme which will form the basis for negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.\u00a0 This was captured in a press statement released by the Finance Ministry on 26th September, 2022. According to the ministry, the programme seeks to establish a macro-fiscal path that ensures debt sustainability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[261,3010,1090,1530,3074,3727,1159,2631,4497],"class_list":["post-1211340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-covid19","tag-economic","tag-government","tag-guide","tag-imf","tag-negotiations","tag-post","tag-programme","tag-puts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211340","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=1211340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}