Browsing: President John Mahama

while the IMF staff mission to Accra agreed in principle to consider adjusting some key aspects of the programme – and even has offered technical support towards this – the Fund wants its core to remain intact. But that core is its customary insistence on demand management driven policies which have always worked over the short term in the past, even as the Mahama administration rode to power on supply side expansionary policy promises.

Dr Johnson Asiamah who previously served as a Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana between 2016 and 2017, holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Southampton, UK and has extensive experience in monetary policy formulation, financial stability regulation and economic research having worked at the central bank for over 23 years.