Bailout

The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has given assurance that the fund’s Executive Board would grant final approval to Ghana’s bailout request. She explained that creditors have been holding crunch meetings to agree on financing assurances for the country. This, she indicated, is the last step needed for board considerations for Ghana’s bailout programme to be approved by the Executive Board. “I am optimistic that we are going to move swiftly,” the IMF boss said in response to a question about progress made so far on Ghana’s bailout request at the sidelines of the ongoing…