Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, the leader of Ghana\u2019s International Monetary Fund (IMF) negotiating team, has said that negotiations with the Fund are very much on track.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Daily Express Newspaper on Thursday, Dr. Botchwey said that apart from a few residual and statistical issues that remain to be resolved, fresh measures required to deal with the impact of the recent plunge in the prices of our key commodities on the 2015 Budget are being reviewed, in close consultation with the Fund Mission.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”WU2Zo5GGhE4tiryf5UPTm2L0goGHAlBl”]\u2018\u2019Once this has been completed, I expect and am confident that the Fund Mission will then launch the internal review processes that would culminate in the Fund Board’s consideration, and hopefully, approval of the program in the next several weeks\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
Dr. Botchwey added that considering the difficult challenges and complex issues that needed to be addressed in the program, especially the president\u2019s concern that the program achieves the twin objectives of macroeconomic stability and employment generating growth during the program period, the negotiations have gone pretty swiftly .<\/p>\n