{"id":373960,"date":"2017-11-15T10:32:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T10:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=373960"},"modified":"2017-11-15T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T11:14:39","slug":"ghbudget-2018-budget-delivery-underway-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=373960","title":{"rendered":"#Ghbudget: 2018 budget delivery underway in parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, is on the floor of Parliament, presenting the government&#8217;s 2018 budget to lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The budget is the second to be read by Akufo-Addo administration since it took over the administration of the country in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The budget is expected to focus on about 10 key areas including infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, job creation, agriculture, entrepreneurship, business growth, creating a Ghana beyond aid, debt management, corruption, public sector reforms among others, and a continuation of the 2017 budget initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>It will also focus mainly on tax reforms, by specifically roping in many people in the informal sector into the tax net.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, is on the floor of Parliament, presenting the government&#8217;s 2018 budget to lawmakers. The budget is the second to be read by Akufo-Addo administration since it took over the administration of the country in January 2017. The budget is expected to focus on about 10 key areas including infrastructure, macroeconomic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[11511,3,4590],"class_list":["post-373960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-2018-budget","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghbudget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373960","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=373960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}