The G7 has asked the World Bank to provide financial support to Ghana and other African countries to enable them deal with the impact of the economic crisis caused by force majeures.<\/p>\n
The decision was taken during a meeting with African Finance Minsters in Washington with the G7, an informal grouping of seven of the world\u2019s advanced economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union.<\/p>\n
Representatives from Ghana, Tunisia, Morroco, Senegal were all at the meeting to meeting.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an exclusive interview with TV3\u2019s Sani\u00a0Abdul-Rahman, Ghana\u2019s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta described the meeting as historic because this is the first time African Finance Ministers have been invited to for such discussions.<\/p>\n
Mr Ofori-Atta said \u201cIt was actually quite a historic meeting because for the first time the G7 has called African Finance Ministers to deliberate on the crisis that they see.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe trues that these are exogenous factors that have really, even their own economies put it under serious stress and are therefore, looking for ways in which they can add to the capital needs to make sure that thigs do not deteriorate. So countries such as Ghana, Senegal, Tunisia, Morocco\u00a0 were there.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added \u201cThe empathy is clear, the need to [introduce] something new and therefore, their interest in encouraging the world Bank to find more resource, tapping into the private sector\u00a0 so that they will stabilize where things are going.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have reduced growth rate to 2.7 per cent expecting a grim and difficult period, they don\u2019t want to make sure that things deteriorate from liquidly to insolvency to chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n
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