News & Events

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic is posing significant challenges to the fiscal operations of Government and more generally on the implementation of the 2020 Budget through shortfalls in revenues, additional emergency spending, and tight financing conditions.

Ghana regrets 7th May, 2020 publication by the European Commission (EC) proposing to the European Union Parliament to add Ghana to its list of high risk third countries with strategic deficiencies in their Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) regimes on 1st October, 2020.

The Ministry of Finance has launched three policy initiatives designed to deepen financial inclusion and accelerate the shift to digital payments. As part of the launch, the Ministry presented the government’s vision of building a highly digitized payment system that accelerates economic development and drives inclusive growth.

Our attention has been drawn to a publication by factcheck-ghana.com of the Media Foundation for West Africa suggesting that Government has shared different macroeconomic data with Ghanaians and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). We wish to state that this assertion is false and misleading

Hon Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister for Finance has commended the leadership of Faith Based Organizations (FBOs) in the Ashanti Region and Ghana at large, for the efficiency with which they distributed food items to the poor and vulnerable during the lockdown.

Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has called for a new global economic order to salvage the world from the ravages being wreck on the economies of developing countries and the world at large.