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Kenneth Nana Yaw Kuntunkununku Ofori-Atta

Date of Birth: 1959
Place of Birth: Kibi


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The ruling party could benefit from its IMF U-turn

The IMF approval of a US$3 billion bailout to support Ghana's ailing economy is being held up as a victory by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) but it is also an embarrassing U-turn especially for Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta...


The IMF offers some breathing space

Should Ghana also receive the over $500m in 2023 World Bank budget and balance-of-payments support (with a further billion or so by 2026) that the ECF programme assumes along with concessional and commercial financing from other sources triggered by the IMF's seal of approval embattled Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta can welcome a significant reduction to Ghana's short and medium-term financing gap at a time Accra remains unable to access international bond markets...

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Deeper reforms needed after the bailout

Last November before announcing the controversial domestic debt exchange offer Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta's national budget targeted real GDP growth of 2...


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Finance minister Ofori-Atta talks up progress on China debt

'Great progress and on all fronts' was finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta's verdict following two days of meetings with Chinese counterparts in Beijing with the finance ministry briefing reporters that it expected to secure financing assurances from the Chinese government 'very soon'...

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Back into the Fund's embrace

Ghana's Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has promised to cut public debt from over 100% of gross domestic product to 55% within three years and cut the proportion of revenue spent on debt service from over 60% to 30% in the same period...


Financial meltdown weakens NPP

Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta who is opposed by rebels in his own party wants to speed up the IMF's $3 billion bailout but he is struggling to convince foreign and local creditors to accept the government's restructuring offer (AC Vol 64 No 1 Ructions over debt deal hold up IMF bailout)...


Ructions over debt deal hold up IMF bailout

The speed at which the IMF and finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta's treasury team agreed a provisional deal for a US$3 billion bailout in mid-December after intensive talks and number-crunching points to the depth of the financial crisis in Ghana and the risk of contagion in what was one of the region's strongest and more diversified economies...

Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta wants to prioritise negotiations with the domestic creditors whose predicament could unleash more chaos...

ACCRA'S ECONOMIC TRIUMVIRATE UNDER PRESSURE Of the three men running Ghana's economy finance minister and former investment banker Ken Ofori-Atta is blamed most for the latest meltdown but the other two – Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia and Bank of Ghana governor Ernest Addison – are being pushed into the frame by politicians across party lines and civic activists as they intensify attacks on the government (AC Vol 63 No 22 Economic woes hit Akufo-Addo on all sides)...


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Treasury team in disarray as finance minister faces probe and his deputy is sacked

All this destabilises the government's economic management team: with Adu-Boahen sacked and tough questions facing Vice-President Bawumia who coordinates economic policy and finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta being probed by Parliament this week...

Before this latest scandal President Akufo-Addo and some ruling party loyalists had been helping finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta fight off the latest attempt to unseat him as many blame him for roaring inflation and the crashing cedi...

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