{"id":48078,"date":"2014-09-16T10:44:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T10:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=48078"},"modified":"2014-09-16T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T11:05:25","slug":"imf-negotiations-kick-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=48078","title":{"rendered":"IMF negotiations kick start today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Seth Tekper has revealed that Ghana will go into negotiation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the country\u2019s home grown solutions to make a case for better conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The team from the International Monetary Fund will today begin negotiations for a programme expected to get Ghana out of its current economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>A number of stakeholders have expressed their opinions on what Ghana\u2019s position should be with some calling for a focus on the cocoa sector.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister, Seth Tekper speaking to Citi Business News said the home grown solution and recommendations from the Senchi consensus will be the key tools to make Ghana\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Tekper also revealed that the decision to go to the fund stems from the Senchi Economic forum.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiated programme is expected to kick start in November this year.<\/p>\n<p>Former Finance Minister and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, Kwesi Botwey will lead the Ghanaian team in the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0 Anim Kwaku Boadu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Seth Tekper has revealed that Ghana will go into negotiation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the country\u2019s home grown solutions to make a case for better conditions. The team from the International Monetary Fund will today begin negotiations for a programme expected to get Ghana out of its current economic challenges. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":48079,"comment_status":"closed","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":[19],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-48078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48078","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=48078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}