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Last week, a Government of Ghana delegation, led by the Finance Minister, Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta and the Minister of Energy, Hon. John Peter Amewu, undertook consultations with the Government of the Philippines, with a view to deepening the over 60-year relationship between the two nations, extending as far back as 1957.

Hon Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister for Finance is leading Ghana’s delegation to the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings to be held in Washington DC, from October 14th to 20th , 2019.

As part of the series of engagements with stakeholders to solicit views for consideration into the 2020 Annual budget, the Ministry of Finance held a breakfast meeting with a number of Financial Institutions.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission is visiting Ghana from Monday, 30th September - Friday 11th October, 2019, to engage in Article IV Consultations as part of the Fund's mandatory multilateral surveillance for all IMF-member countries. This will be the first Article IV Consultants since Ghana successfully concluded the 4-year IMF-supported Extended Credit Facility (ECP) Programme in April, 2019.

Ken Ofori Atta, Minister for Finance has called for an overhaul of the global financing architectural framework, if Africa is to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These include global financial arrangements which make producer countries ‘price takers’; conditions that promote illicit financial flows; conditionalities associated with capital acquisition and its high cost.

Ken Ofori Atta, Minister for Finance today said that as much as there was the need to accelerate innovative financing to assist developing countries achieve SDG on education, it was very crucial that the current pedagogy in some developing countries should be overhauled to equip the youth in those countries to properly engage the world in the near future.