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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stated that it is unable to provide any comments regarding Ghana's anti-LGBTQI bill, which was recently approved by Parliament but has not yet been signed into law. In an email response to Joy Business,...

Mahama Ayariga, the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, has criticized the Proposed Restrictions on Importation of Selected Strategic Products as it contradicts Ghana's commitments under the IMF Bailout Agreement. According to Ayariga, the Export and Import Regulations, 2023, violate...

Dr. Leandro Medina, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative in Ghana, stated that the Bank of Ghana's efforts to guide inflation back to its 8 percent target are not hindered by its participation in the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme...

The governor of Ghana’s central bank, Dr Ernest Addison, has informed the International Monetary Fund MD Kristalina Georgieva at the 2023 Africa Consultative Group Meeting in Washington DC that the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the tightening of...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Ghana’s creditors to hasten to grant the financing assurances needed promptly so the Board of the Bretton Woods institution can approve the cocoa, gold and oil-producing West African country’s $3-billion extended credit facility...

At the request of Bank of Ghana (BoG) and fully funded by Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, SECO, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has assigned a Resident Advisor in financial sector supervision to Bank of Ghana to provide technical...

The International Monetary Fund has said it expects Ghana’s economy to pick up steam in 2024. During the Q&A session at the just-ended World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Daniel Leigh, Division Chief at the Research Department, told journalists,...

Ghana’s ongoing negotiations with the International Monetary Fund are expected to reach a full-blown agreement either in January or February, President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced. Speaking at a meeting with some African-American students from the Harvard Business School at the...

The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has extended his appreciation to key stakeholders including Cabinet, Parliament, FBOs, CSOs, and members of Academia, for their invaluable contributions to the preparation of the Post-Covid-19 Programme for Economic Growth (PC-PEG) which has underpinned the...

Gov’t is buying themselves time to see whether they can disappear – Isaac Adongo The members of minority in Parliament has revealed the government is not showing any seriousness with regards to striking a deal with the International Monetary Fund...