{"id":340914,"date":"2017-07-31T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=340914"},"modified":"2017-07-31T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T16:23:00","slug":"2017-mid-year-budget-review-full-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=340914","title":{"rendered":"2017 mid-year budget review [Full statement]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta on Monday delivered in Parliament the 2017 mid-year review budget.<\/p>\n<p>He touched on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Ghana\u2019s overall revenue performance over the period, debt stock and government\u2019s strategy to reduce the debt stock.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Minister, government\u2019s medium term debt management strategy seeks to help government \u201cto lower borrowing cost, minimize the growth of short-term domestic debt and lengthen the maturity profile of domestic debt under the re-profiling programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe net result of this strategy should reduce the rollover\/refinancing risk and broaden the range of instruments offered in the domestic market. It is important to recognize that re-profiling does not add to public debt and it remains our expectation that this august House, especially, will be united in supporting Government efforts to re-profile a significant proportion of our national debt stock,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click below for the full mid-year review budge statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-Mid-Year-Fiscal-Policy-Review-Final-310717.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click below for the full mid-year review budge statement<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta on Monday delivered in Parliament the 2017 mid-year review budget. He touched on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Ghana\u2019s overall revenue performance over the period, debt stock and government\u2019s strategy to reduce the debt stock. According to the Minister, government\u2019s medium term debt management strategy seeks to help government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340914","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=340914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}