{"id":1264922,"date":"2022-12-14T02:25:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T02:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/imf-govt-to-announce-terms-of-staff-level-agreement-reached\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T02:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T02:25:20","slug":"imf-govt-to-announce-terms-of-staff-level-agreement-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/imf-govt-to-announce-terms-of-staff-level-agreement-reached\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF, gov&#8217;t to announce terms of staff-level agreement reached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"397\"  alt=\"\" title=\"IMF Chief\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMF-Chief-696x397.png\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"397\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMF-Chief-696x397.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"IMF Chief\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMF Mission with government officials including Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta [in white]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will today, Tuesday, December 13, announce the terms of a staff-level agreement reached with the government of Ghana, 3news.com has gathered.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Fund will hold a joint press conference at 10:00am with the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The sector minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, and the Bank\u2019s Governor, Dr Ernest Addison, are expected to be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement follows months of negotiations between an IMF Mission and government officials as Ghana seeks to have an enhanced domestic programme (EDP).<\/p>\n<p>An IMF staff team led by Carlo Sdralevich was in Ghana from Wednesday, July 6-13 after the country wrote to the Fund on Friday, July 1 to seek a bailout due to the worsening economic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF staff team met with a number of stakeholders including Parliament\u2019s Finance Committee, the Trades Union Congress, the private sector, civil society organizations, representatives from various government agencies, and development partners.<\/p>\n<p>Later an IMF Mission led by St\u00e9phane Roudet came by to gather data aimed at \u201crestoring macroeconomic stability and laying the foundation for stronger and more inclusive growth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The press conference on Tuesday, December 13 is expected to lay bare the terms of the staff-level agreement reached.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is seeking a $3 billion deal from the IMF.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kwame_amoh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @kwame_amoh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMF Mission with government officials including Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta [in white] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will today, Tuesday, December 13, announce the terms of a staff-level agreement reached with the government of Ghana, 3news.com has gathered. As a result, the Fund will hold a joint press conference at 10:00am with the Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1222412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3449,456,225,3074,7851,27797,6468],"class_list":{"0":"post-1264922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-agreement","9":"tag-announce","10":"tag-govt","11":"tag-imf","12":"tag-reached","13":"tag-stafflevel","14":"tag-terms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264922","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=1264922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}