Tag Archives: Be diligent with extra-budgetary expenditure – IFS to gov’t

Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson has outlined a series of cost-cutting measures aimed at reducing government expenditure and ensuring prudent financial management. Speaking at a meeting with World Bank Division Director Robert Taliercio O’Brien and his team, Dr. Forson reaffirmed Ghana’s commitment to fiscal prudence, particularly within the framework of the country’s IMF-supported programme. Acknowledging the financial challenges of ...

Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies Dr. Said Boakye has charged Government to be more diligent in the consolidation of extra-budgetary expenditure for better representation of Ghana’s macroeconomic data. This comes on the back of the Finance Ministry’s insistence, that data shared with the IMF in accessing the recent Rapid Credit Facility, was not in tangent with ...