{"id":202871,"date":"2025-07-20T15:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-imf-disburses-367m-to-ghana-as-economy-outperforms\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:20:51","slug":"ghana-imf-disburses-367m-to-ghana-as-economy-outperforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-imf-disburses-367m-to-ghana-as-economy-outperforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: IMF Disburses $367m to Ghana As Economy Outperforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $367 million disbursement to Ghana after completing the fourth review of its Extended Credit Facility (ECF) programme<\/li>\n<li>Ghana&#8217;s economy outperformed forecasts in 2024 and Q1 2025, led by growth in mining, agriculture, ICT, and construction<\/li>\n<li>However, the IMF flagged a slowdown in implementing key economic reforms. It also noted overspending ahead of the 2024 general elections and inflation breaching programme targets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The International&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507180036.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>TLDR The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $367 million disbursement to Ghana after completing the fourth review of its Extended Credit Facility (ECF) programme Ghana&#8217;s economy outperformed forecasts in 2024 and Q1 2025, led by growth in mining, agriculture, ICT, and construction However, the IMF flagged a slowdown in implementing key economic reforms. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[51907,258,256,21065,5762,4508,4509,1283,257,50481,254],"class_list":["post-202871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-367m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-disburses","tag-economy","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-imf","tag-news","tag-outperforms","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/202871","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=202871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}