The IMF approval of a US$3 billion bailout to support Ghana's ailing economy is being held up as a victory by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) but it is also an embarrassing U-turn especially for Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta...

Should Ghana also receive the over $500m in 2023 World Bank budget and balance-of-payments support (with a further billion or so by 2026) that the ECF programme assumes along with concessional and commercial financing from other sources triggered by the IMF's seal of approval embattled Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta can welcome a significant reduction to Ghana's short and medium-term financing gap at a time Accra remains unable to access international bond markets...

Last November before announcing the controversial domestic debt exchange offer Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta's national budget targeted real GDP growth of 2...

Getting Ghana's programme to the IMF board is the top priority for President Akufo-Addo and Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta...

Key to the government's strategy are efforts by finance minster Ken Ofori-Atta to restructure most of the country's 576 billion cedis (US$45bn) public debt (AC Vol 63 No 22 Economic woes hit Akufo-Addo on all sides)...

Ghana's Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has promised to cut public debt from over 100% of gross domestic product to 55% within three years and cut the proportion of revenue spent on debt service from over 60% to 30% in the same period...

Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta who is opposed by rebels in his own party wants to speed up the IMF's $3 billion bailout but he is struggling to convince foreign and local creditors to accept the government's restructuring offer (AC Vol 64 No 1 Ructions over debt deal hold up IMF bailout)...

The speed at which the IMF and finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta's treasury team agreed a provisional deal for a US$3 billion bailout in mid-December after intensive talks and number-crunching points to the depth of the financial crisis in Ghana and the risk of contagion in what was one of the region's strongest and more diversified economies...

Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta wants to prioritise negotiations with the domestic creditors whose predicament could unleash more chaos...

ACCRA'S ECONOMIC TRIUMVIRATE UNDER PRESSURE Of the three men running Ghana's economy finance minister and former investment banker Ken Ofori-Atta is blamed most for the latest meltdown but the other two – Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia and Bank of Ghana governor Ernest Addison – are being pushed into the frame by politicians across party lines and civic activists as they intensify attacks on the government (AC Vol 63 No 22 Economic woes hit Akufo-Addo on all sides)...