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Ghana and officials of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) met on the side-lines of the 2019 IMF World Bank Annual Meetings to discuss innovative ways to raise funding to urgently finance education.

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.