The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is optimistic the country will get approval from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for an economic programme before the end of 2022.<\/p>\n
According to him, a team of government officials will from this weekend travel to the USA for two weeks to continue negotiations with the Fund to fast-track the deal.<\/p>\n
He was speaking to the media after paying a visit to the \u2018Long Room\u2019 at the Tema Port in the Greater Accra region.<\/p>\n
He stated that discussions have so far been fruitful and cordial with the IMF mission team, here in Ghana.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will go to Washington with them and continue for another two weeks of discussions. I think we are moving in the right direction. The Debt Sustainability Analysis still continues\u201d, he announced.<\/p>\n
Mr. Ofori-Atta stated that issues concerning the Debt Sustainability Analysis will be a key agenda that would be looked at to decide a programme for the country.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Debt Sustainability Analysis is a critical component of the decision as to what to do such as structural reforms and debt operations, as well as the financing gap of the country,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n Mr. Ofori-Atta also used the occasion to congratulate the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority for exceeding its target in the month of September, 2022.<\/p>\n \u201cA huge part of the discussions also include revenue. This means that the work of customs is very important to the discussions. I looked at September figures and it looks like we exceeded the target. That\u2019s very encouraging,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He urged the GRA to continue working in the interest of the nation \u2013 blocking revenue leakages in the system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mr. Ofori-Atta with Custom officials at the Tema Port The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is optimistic the country will get approval from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for an economic programme before the end of 2022. According to him, a team of government officials will from this weekend travel to the USA for two weeks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[7752,3074,2089,2631,14048],"class_list":["post-1217156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-hopeful","tag-imf","tag-oforiatta","tag-programme","tag-securing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217156","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=1217156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"We\u2019re](\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-10-06-at-1.00.27-AM-1024x576.jpeg\" "\\"We\u2019re")
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