{"id":94754,"date":"2015-02-26T20:30:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T20:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=94754"},"modified":"2015-02-26T21:25:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T21:25:55","slug":"audio-us940m-imf-deal-positive-but-unspectacular-bernard-avle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=94754","title":{"rendered":"[Audio] US$940m IMF deal &#8216;positive but unspectacular&#8217; &#8211; Bernard Avle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director for News Programming at <strong>Citi FM<\/strong>, Bernard Koku Avle has described Ghana&#8217;s\u00a0US$940m agreement with the International Monetary Fund as &#8220;positive but not spectacular&#8221; in his analysis of the deal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94551\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/imf-deputy-managing-director-ms-nemat-shafik-and-seth-terkper.jpg\" alt=\"imf deputy managing director ms nemat shafik and seth terkper\" width=\"494\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/imf-deputy-managing-director-ms-nemat-shafik-and-seth-terkper.jpg 494w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/imf-deputy-managing-director-ms-nemat-shafik-and-seth-terkper-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The IMF announced the deal at a press conference on Thursday, revealing that \u00a0the country will receive\u00a0US$940 million from the Fund to help turn the ailing economy around.<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0in an interview on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Thursday, the host of the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show <\/strong>said though the IMF&#8217;s\u00a0terms for the deal were not new,\u00a0it possibly\u00a0gives a &#8220;pretext to\u00a0Government to take difficult decisions and also gives a sense to the international community that the kind of reform needed to place confidence in the economy is coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the audio below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/citi97-3\/bernard-avles-analysis-of-ghanas-us-940m-imf-deal-mp3<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director for News Programming at Citi FM, Bernard Koku Avle has described Ghana&#8217;s\u00a0US$940m agreement with the International Monetary Fund as &#8220;positive but not spectacular&#8221; in his analysis of the deal. The IMF announced the deal at a press conference on Thursday, revealing that \u00a0the country will receive\u00a0US$940 million from the Fund to help turn the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":94013,"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":[2],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-94754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94754","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}