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Akufo-Addo orders Ofori-Atta to go to IMF
Leader of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has taught the clergyman of money to begin official commitment with the International Monetary Fund.
This is contained in an explanation gave by the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on Friday, July 1, 2022.
As indicated by the proclamation, the money serve has been told by the president to look for IMF's help for a monetary program set up by the public authority of Ghana.
"The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has approved Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta to start formal commitment with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), welcoming the Fund to Support a financial program set up by the Government of Ghana," the assertion said.
In addition to other things, the service of data says the IMF backing will give "equilibrium of installment support as a feature of a more extensive work to stimulate Ghana's work back despite difficulties prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and as of late, the Russia-Ukraine emergency."
This new improvement comes as a curve to a previous situation by the public authority on the chance of an IMF bailout.
Even with developing financial difficulties, a few pundits including the resistance National Democratic Congress and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) had entreated the public authority to look for an IMF bailout.
However, in a few occurrences, the public authority demanded against going to the IMF while promoting a few local strategies as solution for the ongoing circumstance.
The Minister for Finance Ken Ofori-Atta, in January 2022 depicted an IMF bailout as awful to Ghana.
"At the point when we were in the IMF program, we were unable to pay for medical caretakers and educators," he said; "we were unable to recruit any more since there were limitations on that. Well, it's very figuring you can return to Egypt.
"As it were, we have failed to remember how troublesome and tireless that expert from Washington was.
"Along these lines, we can manage them for them to offer us guidance yet we want not at any point get into an IMF program [again]. In the event that we don't do this E-demand, we're simply propelling ourselves in a way that would possibly wind up in such a calamity," Ofori-Atta said.
The pastor was talking at an administration municipal event on the dubious Electronic Transfers Levy (E-Levy) which was framed as one of the local strategies.
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