{"id":204732,"date":"2025-08-15T04:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-prioritise-capital-expenditure-to-generate-more-revenue-for-debt-repayment-emal\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:12:08","slug":"ghana-prioritise-capital-expenditure-to-generate-more-revenue-for-debt-repayment-emal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-prioritise-capital-expenditure-to-generate-more-revenue-for-debt-repayment-emal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Prioritise Capital Expenditure to Generate More Revenue for Debt Repayment &#8211; Emal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The government must prioritise capital expenditure and focus on projects that can generate better financial returns for debt repayment beginning 2026, the Emerging Market Advisors Limited (EMAL), has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In its analysis of the Mid-year budget statement, the think tank said the government must urgently resource the Sinking Fund to build strong financial buffers for debt repayment beginning 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;With Ghana&#8217;s debt obligations looming, investments should focus on high-impact, revenue-generating&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508140541.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>The government must prioritise capital expenditure and focus on projects that can generate better financial returns for debt repayment beginning 2026, the Emerging Market Advisors Limited (EMAL), has said. In its analysis of the Mid-year budget statement, the think tank said the government must urgently resource the Sinking Fund to build strong financial buffers for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204733,"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":[258,256,6959,6861,52111,20454,8270,4508,4509,257,11956,28041,7343,254],"class_list":["post-204732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capital","tag-debt","tag-emal","tag-expenditure","tag-generate","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-prioritise","tag-repayment","tag-revenue","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\/204732","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=204732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}