{"id":136398,"date":"2015-07-21T15:39:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T15:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=136398"},"modified":"2015-07-21T15:43:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T15:43:26","slug":"full-statement-on-2015-mid-year-budget-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=136398","title":{"rendered":"Full statement on 2015 mid-year budget review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the Finance Minister, Seth Terkper presented to Parliament, the 2015 min-year budget review.<\/p>\n<p>His address gave an account of the first five months of government\u2019s implementation of the 2015 budget.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, Mr. Terkper disclosed that the nation&#8217;s\u00a0expected economic growth of 3.9% for 2015 cannot be met.<\/p>\n<p>He also indicated that the overall budget deficit target, according to the Minister, has been revised from 6.5% of GDP to 7.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation has also been reviewed upward; from 11.5% to 13.7%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Click on link below to read the full statement on the 2015 mid-year budget review\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-Mid-Year-Review-Speech-210715.pdf\">Finance Ministry&#8217;s full speech on the 2015 Mid-Year Review<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the Finance Minister, Seth Terkper presented to Parliament, the 2015 min-year budget review. His address gave an account of the first five months of government\u2019s implementation of the 2015 budget. Among other things, Mr. Terkper disclosed that the nation&#8217;s\u00a0expected economic growth of 3.9% for 2015 cannot be met. He also indicated that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-136398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}