Former finance minister Seth Terkper whose fiscal policymaking was constrained by the terms of Ghana's 2015-2019 IMF ECF deal has welcomed the latest deal while warning yet of its 'serious implications' for the next administration...
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But former President and opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader John Dramani Mahama blames the NPP's economic policy while his former finance minister Seth Terkper publicly questions the accuracy of the government's statistics...
Earlier Mahama's Finance Minister Seth Terkper accused the government of wasting money on projects such as the national cathedral in Accra...
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Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta acknowledges the deficit will exceed 11% though his disgruntled predecessor Seth Terkper suggests it will be between 13% and 15% while the IMF projects a fiscal deficit exceeding 16% the highest in SSA...
With their local and international business connections the top tier of the NPP government has worked hard to convince Ghanaians of its superior competence in managing the national economy against the record of the NDC under Mahama and his finance minister Seth Terkper (AC Vol 57 No 18 The debt merry-go-round)...
3% target that the outgoing Finance Minister Seth Terkper had agreed with the International Monetary Fund...
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programme with the International Monetary Fund launched by his predecessor Seth Terkper in April 2015...
In turn Mahama and his Finance Minister Seth Terkper insist they are determined to break with the traditional pre-election spending boom...
Budget forecasts from Finance Minister Seth Terkper last November that Ghana would reach 5...
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Finance Minister Seth Terkper who is short of friends on both sides of the parliamentary divide has proved adept at shoring up state finances with a campaign of creeping taxation often paid in advance such as the ubiquitous withholding tax...
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