{"id":1217640,"date":"2022-10-06T20:05:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/cost-of-borrowing-to-go-up-as-policy-rate-is-increased-from-22-to-24-5\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T20:05:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:05:47","slug":"cost-of-borrowing-to-go-up-as-policy-rate-is-increased-from-22-to-24-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/cost-of-borrowing-to-go-up-as-policy-rate-is-increased-from-22-to-24-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of borrowing to go up as Policy Rate is increased from 22% to 24.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Dr. Ernest Addison2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Dr.-Ernest-Addison2-696x464.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Dr.-Ernest-Addison2-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Dr. Ernest Addison2\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Ernest Addison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has increased the Policy Rate again to 24.5 per cent from the 22 per cent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was announced by the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Ernest Addison at the 108th MPC press conference in Accra on Thursday October 6.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Addison explained that on the fiscal situation, while expenditures have been broadly on target, revenue performance has been below expectations, complicating fiscal policy implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Financing of the budget so far has predominantly been from the banking sector with<br \/>the central bank absorbing a larger share.<\/p>\n<p>Persistent uncovered auctions and portfolio reversals by non-resident investors continue to pose risks to financing of the budget, resulting in monetization of the budget deficit by the central bank.<\/p>\n<p>The Monetary Policy Committee recognizes the fact that the current condition is sub-optimal and will be interim until agreements are reached on an IMF-supported programme.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee assesses that the engagement with IMF has been positive and early<br \/>conclusion of the programme discussions will help re-anchor stability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outlook for the Ghana Cedi has improved, aided by the recent disbursement of<br \/>the loan from Afreximbank of US$750 million, the signing of the syndicated Cocoa<br \/>Loan of US$1.13 million, and the agreement with gold and oil companies to purchase<br \/>the repatriated foreign exchange earnings of about US$83.9 million so far, will help<br \/>stabilise the exchange rate,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation remains elevated and the balance of risks is on the upside. Although the<br \/>forecasts are for monthly inflation to continue to slow down, the risks are on the<br \/>upside, emanating largely from pass-through effects of the currency depreciation, the<br \/>recent upward adjustment in utility tariffs, and rising inflation expectations.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee remains committed to re-anchoring inflation expectations and returning to<br \/>a disinflation path.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the circumstances, the MPC decided to increase the Monetary Policy Rate by<br \/>250 basis points to 24.5 percent,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ernest Addison The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has increased the Policy Rate again to 24.5 per cent from the 22 per cent. This was announced by the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Ernest Addison at the 108th MPC press conference in Accra on Thursday October 6. Dr Addison explained that on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3542,442,1752,587,179],"class_list":["post-1217640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-borrowing","tag-cost","tag-increased","tag-policy","tag-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217640","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=1217640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}