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The only time we hear how much we owe as Ghanaians is when the Minister of Finance is reading the budget and tells us what our debt-to-GDP is. NDC is going to change that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to make the debt management department of the Finance Ministry a separate autonomous department. It will be a Debt Management Authority and it will have a head who will be autonomous and he will publish every quarter what our debt-to-GDP numbers are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAside from that, we will change parts of the Public Financial Management Act and put a clause there on how much money a Finance Minister can borrow. So, if we agree that we should not borrow more than 60% of GDP, then we will put it in the Public Financial Management Act so that no finance minister can come in future and borrow money as badly as he wants and leave a debt for the young people who are sitting here,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em><strong>Explore the world of impactful news with CitiNewsroom on WhatsApp!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Click on the link to join the\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">Citi Newsroom<\/span>\u00a0channel for curated, meaningful stories tailored just for YOU:\u00a0https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCYzPRAYlUPudDDe53x<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>No spams, just the stories that truly matter! #StayInformed #CitiNewsroom #CNRDigital<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has vowed to amend the Public Financial Management Act to cap the amount of money the country can borrow from external creditors. Mahama, while noting the lack of transparency in the country\u2019s debt management, said the next NDC administration will make the debt management [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mahama pledges to cap Ghana&#039;s borrowing, enhance debt transparency - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/17\/mahama-pledges-to-cap-ghanas-borrowing-enhance-debt-transparency\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mahama pledges to cap Ghana&#039;s borrowing, enhance debt transparency - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has vowed to amend the Public Financial Management Act to cap the amount of money the country can borrow from external creditors. 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