{"id":175252,"date":"2024-06-25T13:35:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-claiming-8-billion-for-infrastructure-from-debt-restructuring-is-weird-thinking-finance-expert\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:35:05","slug":"ghana-claiming-8-billion-for-infrastructure-from-debt-restructuring-is-weird-thinking-finance-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-claiming-8-billion-for-infrastructure-from-debt-restructuring-is-weird-thinking-finance-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Claiming $8 Billion for Infrastructure From Debt Restructuring Is Weird Thinking &#8211; Finance Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Professor of Finance says Finance Minister&#8217;s claim that the debt restructuring agreement will make $8 billion dollars available for infrastructure projects is weird thinking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.ucc.edu.gh\/p\/john-gartchie-gatsi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Gatsi<\/a>, a finance Professor, has taken on <a href=\"https:\/\/theaccratimes.com\/president-instructs-finance-ministry-to-pay-gh%c2%a21-5-billion-to-customers-of-defunct-financial-institution-but-the-allocation-looks-inadequate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Finance Minister Dr. Mohammed<\/a> Amin Adam for suggesting that securing a debt restructuring agreement will automatically free up $8 billion for infrastructure development. Professor Gatsi argued that this perspective is &#8216;weird&#8217; and misleading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">Speaking at a town hall&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406250337.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Finance says Finance Minister&#8217;s claim that the debt restructuring agreement will make $8 billion dollars available for infrastructure projects is weird thinking. Professor John Gatsi, a finance Professor, has taken on Finance Minister Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam for suggesting that securing a debt restructuring agreement will automatically free up $8 billion for infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6495,18590,6861,8957,7829,4508,4509,9864,257,10415,254,18913,26963],"class_list":["post-175252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-claiming","tag-debt","tag-expert","tag-finance","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-infrastructure","tag-news","tag-restructuring","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thinking","tag-weird"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}