{"id":1266556,"date":"2022-12-17T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/17\/economy-signs-are-looking-good-but-support-with-fact-terkper-tells-govt\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T11:34:09","slug":"economy-signs-are-looking-good-but-support-with-fact-terkper-tells-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/17\/economy-signs-are-looking-good-but-support-with-fact-terkper-tells-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy: Signs are looking good but support with fact &#8211; Terkper tells govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"406\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Seth-Terkper-620x406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Seth-Terkper-620x406-1.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"406\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Seth-Terkper-620x406-1.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Seth-Terkper-620x406\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Terkper,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Former Finance Minister Seth Terkper has noted that the signs are looking good for Ghana\u2019s economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, he said, the government must provide facts and figures to support the emerging trends in order to assist people make informed decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe signs are looking good but let us support it with fact,\u201d he told journalists at the Accra Sports Stadium where the <a href=\"https:\/\/3news.com\/tag\/national-democratic-congress\/\">National Democratic Congress (NDC) is having its delegates conference on Saturday December 17.<\/p>\n<p>He further told the government to accept blame when things are not going well with the economy and not just blame them on global factors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it so going bad it is global situation but when it is going well it is the government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come on the back of positive signs seen with the strength of the Cedi against the Dollar.<\/p>\n<p>The local currency has over the past few days, especially since the start of December 2022, been gaining strength against the major trading currencies particularly, the Dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Per the Bank of Ghana (BoG) rate, the Cedi, as of Thursday December 15, was buying at GHS7.9975 to a Dollar and and selling at GHS8.0056 to a Dollar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bank of Ghana Exchange Rates <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HREBnMQezt\">pic.twitter.com\/HREBnMQezt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bank of Ghana (@thebankofghana) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebankofghana\/status\/1603652991269085185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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>Seth Terkper, Former Finance Minister Seth Terkper has noted that the signs are looking good for Ghana\u2019s economy. However, he said, the government must provide facts and figures to support the emerging trends in order to assist people make informed decisions. \u201cThe signs are looking good but let us support it with fact,\u201d he told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1210150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1963,6371,333,225,340,115,700,3832],"class_list":["post-1266556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-economy","tag-fact","tag-good","tag-govt","tag-signs","tag-support","tag-tells","tag-terkper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266556","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=1266556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}