Seth Emmanuel Terkper

Embattled Finance Minister Seth Terkper will be in the direct line of opposition fire after his November budget speech forecast growth of 5...

Finance Minister Seth Terkper presents this combined package as a tremendous vote of confidence in Ghana...

' He thanked Nigerian ex-President Goodluck Jonathan for having proposed him and Ghana's Finance Minister Seth Terkper for seconding him thanked Uganda and then embraced Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Nigeria's outgoing Finance Minister...

Ghana's Finance Minister Seth Terkper who has grudgingly accepted the criticism of ratings agencies that have downgraded Ghana has failed to reduce the massive public sector wage bill...

' These difficulties in agreeing an IMF programme follow Finance Minister Seth Terkper's announcement of a tough budget that forecast economic growth would slow to 3...

Last week Finance Minister Seth Terkper launched a roadshow in Europe to raise finance for a $1 bn...

Just five days earlier Finance Minister Seth Terkper announced that Mahama had asked him to open negotiations with the International Monetary Fund a move which senior officials had previously rejected...

IMF bailoutWith no early respite on the economic front Finance Minister Seth Terkper is set to apply to the International Monetary Fund for a new financial assistance programme before December...

The most serious are: • Flagging growth: the International Monetary Fund and banks such as Standard Chartered are revising their growth estimates downwards; • Lost revenue and delays to new gas-fired power projects: more than two years of delays to the plan to pipe gas from the Jubilee oil field to the processing plant in Atuabo Western Region will be costly; • Oil companies working in Jubilee have cut production to 100 000 barrels per day in 2014 rather than the 120 000 bpd targeted by Finance Minister Seth Terkper because of the build-up of gas in the field...

The harsh realities behind Finance Minister Seth Terkper's budget speech on 19 November suggest a turbulent year ahead for the government...