{"id":744962,"date":"2022-01-11T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/imf-re-affirms-6-2-growth-rate-for-ghana-in-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:39:11","slug":"imf-re-affirms-6-2-growth-rate-for-ghana-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/imf-re-affirms-6-2-growth-rate-for-ghana-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF re-affirms 6.2% growth rate for Ghana in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\"><b>IMF predicts Ghana\u2019s GDP growth by 6.2% in 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Global economy to grow by 4.9% &#8211; IMF<\/p>\n<p>Sub-Sahara Africa to grow by 3.8%<\/p>\n<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its October 2021 World Economic Outlook report has reaffirmed that Ghana\u2019s economy would grow by 6.2% in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, the IMF in its Fiscal Monitor had predicted that Ghana\u2019s economy would grow by the same rate (6.2percent).<\/p>\n<p>Countries in sub-Sahara Africa would on average grow by 3.8 percent in 2022, according to the IMF<\/p>\n<p>The IMF also predicted that the global economy would grow by 4.9 percent in 2022 which is lower than the 5.9 prediction for 2021.<\/p>\n<p>It explained that the world growth projection for 2021 was reduced by 0.1 percentage points due to the downgrade of advanced economies, partly due to supply disruptions and of low-income developing countries due to worsening pandemic dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF also predicted that advanced countries would grow by 4.5 percent in 2022 while emerging market and developing economies would grow by 5.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p><b> See below the 2022 growth projection by the IMF (photo credit IMF)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/src\/IMF_2a.png&lt;br \/&gt;&#13;&#10;\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/19908621.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMF predicts Ghana\u2019s GDP growth by 6.2% in 2022 Global economy to grow by 4.9% &#8211; IMF Sub-Sahara Africa to grow by 3.8% The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its October 2021 World Economic Outlook report has reaffirmed that Ghana\u2019s economy would grow by 6.2% in 2022. In April 2021, the IMF in its Fiscal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744962","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=744962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}