{"id":6184,"date":"2024-05-29T10:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2024-05-29T10:36:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:36:34","slug":"were-working-hard-to-ease-cost-of-doing-business-amin-adam-woos-investors-to-support-ghanas-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=6184","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re working hard to ease cost of doing business \u2013 Amin Adam woos investors to support Ghana\u2019s economic recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classfmonline.com\/business\/We-re-working-hard-to-ease-cost-of-doing-business-Amin-Adam-woos-investors-to-support-Ghana-s-economic-recovery-51893\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Finance Minister, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, has extended an invitation to the investor community to support the nation&#8217;s steady economic recovery, highlighting Ghana&#8217;s impressive growth trajectory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at a side meeting with Rand Merchant Bank investors during the 2024 African Development Bank Annual Meetings in Nairobi, Kenya, Dr. Adam emphasised Ghana&#8217;s efforts to create a more business-friendly environment through pragmatic policies and stakeholder engagements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGhana is currently working hard to ease the cost of doing business through pragmatic policies and stakeholder engagements,\u201d the Finance Minister stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Adam reassured investors of the government&#8217;s commitment to fiscal prudence, especially in the election year, to remain within expenditure limits. This commitment is crucial for the success of Ghana&#8217;s engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cInflation is trending downwards from 54 percent in 2022 to 25 percent today and is expected to go to 15 percent by the end of the year,\u201d he disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-9d1be313e3403af1c84f23ce7f478b33 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ftk6DbgeMNo?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cAs a government, the interest rate has also gone down. We are holding the line in this election year so we don\u2019t overspend,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Finance Minister also highlighted government&#8217;s deliberate initiatives to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), which are vital for employment and GDP contribution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These support mechanisms include access to finance, market opportunities, digital marketing, and managerial expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe growth we are looking at requires sustainable investment, and that is why we continue to count on your esteemed partnership,\u201d Dr. Adam added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Adam was accompanied by the 2nd Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Mrs. Elsie Addo Awadzi, and officials from the Ministry of Finance, Bank of Ghana, and the Ghana Investment and Infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uploads.files.3news.com\/2024\/03\/Ambulance-Purchase-trial-Third-accused-Richard-Jakpa-declared-wanted.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Finance Minister, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, has extended an invitation to the investor community to support the nation&#8217;s steady economic recovery, highlighting Ghana&#8217;s impressive growth trajectory.&nbsp; Speaking at a side meeting with Rand Merchant Bank investors during the 2024 African Development Bank Annual Meetings in Nairobi, Kenya, Dr. Adam emphasised Ghana&#8217;s efforts to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,41],"tags":[1682,2132,887],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-general-news","tag-amin-adam","tag-cost-of-doing-business","tag-finance-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6186,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions\/6186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}