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Ghana: First Review Under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement and Request for Waiver and Modifications of Performance Criteria - Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Ghana

September 4, 2015

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Ghana: First Review Under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement and Request for Waiver and Modifications of Performance Criteria - Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Ghana, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed December 22, 2024

Summary

This paper discusses Ghana’s First Review Under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement and Request for Waiver and Modifications of Performance Criteria (PC). Program performance has been broadly satisfactory. All but one PC were met at end-April 2015 and structural benchmarks were largely completed, some with delays. However, there was nonobservance of the continuous PC on the ceiling on gross credit to government by Bank of Ghana in April by a small margin and the indicative targets on inflation and social protection spending were missed, the latter because of a very slight delay in some spending. The economic environment remains challenging and risks are tilted to the downside. The IMF staff recommends completion of the first review.

Subject: Arrears, External debt, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal policy, Government debt management, Oil, gas and mining taxes, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Arrears, Clearance plan, CR, Debt management strategy, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal consolidation effort, Global, Government debt management, ISCR, Overdue payment, Payment, Payment notice

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    101

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2015/245

  • Stock No:

    1GHAEA2015002

  • ISBN:

    9781513596365

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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