Cassiel Ato Forson

After his January appointment Mahama's Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson suggested seeking more IMF finance and external funding to ease reliance on local borrowing which remains costly despite cuts in Treasury bill rates (AC Vol 65 No 22 Accra jumps through more debt hoops)...

Reading the 2025 budget to parliament on 11 March Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson kept to the economic reset script and promises of a far-reaching National Economic Dialogue championed by President John Dramani Mahama...

When Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson presents the 2025 budget on 11 March fiscal measures to reduce debt create jobs and cut taxes such as the betting tax Covid-19 levy and the electronic transactions levy will top the agenda...

One of his chief advisors on economic policy will be Cassiel Ato Forson a former Deputy Finance Minister...

The NPP will face stiff opposition from the NDC on laws and public agreements under new minority leader Cassiel Ato Forson...

Its parliamentary leader Cassiel Ato Forson described the budget in the debate on 29 November as cruel and 'out of touch'...

Among those making this observation is the National Democratic Congress's (NDC) Cassiel Ato Forson who suggests a less favourable agreement with official creditors will in turn require 'immediate provision' in the 2024 national budget for greater-than-anticipated debt service on the excluded debt...

The opposition NDC has responded to the IMF deal with a multipronged attack via minority parliamentary leader Cassiel Ato Forson who has gleefully pointed to Ofori-Atta's denials last year that an IMF deal would be sought (AC Vol 63 No 15 Akufo-Addo faces the costs of an IMF deal)...

Amid the tumult the opposition National Democratic Congress's (NDC) new parliamentary leader Cassiel Ato Forson dismissed the plan claiming the economy was in 'its worst condition for decades' and the country was 'bankrupt' (AC Vol 64 No 1 Ructions over debt deal hold up IMF bailout)...

NDC finance spokesperson Cassiel Ato Forson said 'We want to…assure the people of Ghana that we the members of the NDC minority will not accept Agyapa in any form...

Cassiel Ato Forson finance spokesman for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has slammed the government for announcing unbudgeted spending and adding 48 billion cedis (US$9...