{"id":89312,"date":"2015-02-07T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T08:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=89312"},"modified":"2015-02-07T07:03:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T07:03:13","slug":"mahama-sets-taskforce-oversee-exim-bank-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/02\/mahama-sets-taskforce-oversee-exim-bank-establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama sets up taskforce to oversee Exim Bank establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"
President John Mahama has set-up a taskforce to work on the establishment of a Ghana Exim Bank.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”0LO78GcMiGm3zy1E9vc1eTVie2tw1UpI”]The taskforce, which will be chaired by the Chair of the ECOBANK Board of\u00a0Directors, Lionel Van Lare Dosoo, also includes the Managing Director of\u00a0GCB Limited, Simon Dornoo and Steve Williams, a banker.<\/p>\n
Government announced plans to set-up a Ghana Export-Import Bank in its\u00a02015 Budget and Financial Estimates, as a step towards the strategic positioning of Ghana as an export-led economy.<\/p>\n
The Ghana Exim Bank will be a vehicle for the consolidation of the current export finance activities of the Export Development and Agricultural Investment Fund (EDAIF), Eximguaranty Company and Export Finance Company.<\/p>\n
According to a statement signed by the Chief of Staff, Prosper Bani, the taskforce will also have representatives from a number of institutions including the Association of Ghana Industries, Export Finance Company, Eximguaranty Company, Ghana Export Promotion Authority, EDAIF and the Federation of Ghanaian Exporters.<\/p>\n
The others are the Bank of Ghana, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Finance and the Attorney General\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n
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Source: Presidency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President John Mahama has set-up a taskforce to work on the establishment of a Ghana Exim Bank. [contextly_sidebar id=”0LO78GcMiGm3zy1E9vc1eTVie2tw1UpI”]The taskforce, which will be chaired by the Chair of the ECOBANK Board of\u00a0Directors, Lionel Van Lare Dosoo, also includes the Managing Director of\u00a0GCB Limited, Simon Dornoo and Steve Williams, a banker. Government announced plans to set-up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[43,38,4],"yoast_head":"\n