{"id":4312,"date":"2022-07-01T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2022-07-01T13:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T13:57:45","slug":"president-directs-finance-minister-to-intimate-process-to-engage-with-imf-for-a-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/01\/president-directs-finance-minister-to-intimate-process-to-engage-with-imf-for-a-bailout\/","title":{"rendered":"President Directs Finance Minister To Start Processes To Engage With IMF For A Bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Finance Minister Ken Ofori, has received a formal order from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to start engaging with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), for a bailout.<\/p>\n<p>This move is to get the fund to help in the country&#8217;s economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>In a release posted on the Facebook page of the Ministry of Information, which was signed by the sector Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah; reads, &#8220;President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Add directs Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta to engage IMF to support Ghana\u2019s economic recovery program&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement in, &#8220;&#8230; a telephone conversation, between the President and the IMF Managing Director Miss Kristalina Georgieva&#8221;, Nana Addo conveyed,\u00a0 &#8220;Ghana&#8217;s decision to engage with the fund&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The last program with the IMF ended in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the second time in 7 years the nation has asked the IMF for policy credibility support.<\/p>\n<p>The economy which keeps failing, has been blamed on the Ukraine and Russia war; as well as the Covid-19 pandemic, by the Nana Addo led government.<\/p>\n<p>Read statement issued by the Information minister Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah below.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4313\" src=\"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FB_IMG_1656675208980-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FB_IMG_1656675208980-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FB_IMG_1656675208980.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Finance Minister Ken Ofori, has received a formal order from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to start engaging with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), for a bailout. This move is to get the fund to help in the country&#8217;s economic recovery. In a release posted on the Facebook page of the Ministry of Information, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[641],"tags":[913,912,914,915,828],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-finance-minister","tag-imf","tag-ken-ofori-attach","tag-kojo-oppong-nkrumah","tag-president-nana-addo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}