{"id":252233,"date":"2016-09-27T06:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T06:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=252233"},"modified":"2016-09-27T06:15:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T06:15:18","slug":"imf-cash-delay-to-push-inflation-credit-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=252233","title":{"rendered":"IMF cash delay to push inflation &#038; credit up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) is cautioning cost of credit as well as inflation \u00a0will shoot up in the coming months if there is a further delay in the release of the IMF bailout cash.<\/p>\n<p>ISSER argues, government\u2019s decision to borrow more to meet expenditure like wages in an election year will yield high interest rated debts.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is yet to receive the third tranche of its financial assistance from the IMF; almost three months after the mission concluded its third review.<\/p>\n<p>A Deputy Finance Minister Mona Quartey has told Citi Business News government has submitted data on restructuring the country\u2019s energy sector which should prompt the release of the bailout cash.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Citi Business News however, an economist with ISSER, Professor Robert Darko Osei maintained the high interest would also have dire consequences if unchecked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0 Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) is cautioning cost of credit as well as inflation \u00a0will shoot up in the coming months if there is a further delay in the release of the IMF bailout cash. ISSER argues, government\u2019s decision to borrow more to meet expenditure like wages in an election year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":38989,"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":[121,32,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-and-finance","category-business","category-local-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252233","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}