IMF urges tighter controls over GoldBod programme amid concerns over BoG losses - MyJoyOnline
IMF urges tighter controls over GoldBod programme amid concerns over BoG losses - MyJoyOnline
Source: MyJoyOnline
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DW NOTE
The IMF's concern over Bank of Ghana losses from the GoldBod programme is unusually pointed for a Fund that typically praises African central banks for "structural reforms." When the IMF questions the fiscal cost of a domestic gold accumulation scheme, read it as: the programme has become expensive enough to threaten the next tranche of concessional lending. Ghana's gold reserves are up, but so is the liability side of the BOG balance sheet.