The final outdoor event of the Citi Business Festival, the Economic Outlook, has been held at the Cedi Auditorium at the Economics Department of the University of Ghana.
The panel at the forum was made up of Deputy Finance Minister, Charles Adu Boahene, former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, Head of Research at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Kwabena Otoo, CEO of the Private Enterprise Federation (PEF), Nana Osei Bonsu as well as the Head of the Economics Department at the University of Ghana, Prof. Peter Quartey.
The theme of the forum was “Assessing Ghana’s Economy Under the IMF Programme”.
The panel looked at thematic areas of the IMF programme such as “How beneficial the latest IMF Programme has been to Ghana?”, “What is the best way to efficiently manage the wage bill?” and “How sustainable is Ghana’s debt management strategy?”.
Other thematic areas discussed are ; “Currency management. Is the cedi overvalued?”, “Avoiding the Political Business Cycle” as well as “Ghana’s Growth Trajectory, How do We Generate Sustainable High Quality Economic Growth?”, among others.
The programme is live on Citi 97.3 FM and on the Facebook page of Citi FM.