Author: Delali Adogla-Bessa
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Ghana exits IMF programme – Bawumia
Ghana has officially exited the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme. The Vice President, Mohamadu Bawumia said Ghana officially exited the IMF’s extended credit facility arrangement on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. “…It was only yesterday [Tuesday] that Ghana formally and successfully completed the IMF programme that we inherited in 2017,” he said at a townhall meeting…
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Bawumia to speak on economy today at town hall meeting
Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will address Ghanaians on the state of the economy at an Economic Management Team town hall meeting today, April 3, 2019. The meeting is being convened on the theme: “Our progress, our status, our future,” and will be held at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at 10:00am. The town…
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Our imports not a nuisance; we can’t do without importation – GUTA
The Ghana Union of Traders Associations (GUTA) has refuted suggestions that it lobbies the government for favourable import conditions to the detriment of local industries. “On the contrary, most of us want to migrate into manufacturing,” GUTA’s President, Joseph Obeng, said on the Citi Breakfast Show. Mr. Obeng explained further that importers only seek to…