Lessons from the Bank of Ghana's Domestic Gold Purchase Programme - International Monetary Fund | IMF
Lessons from the Bank of Ghana's Domestic Gold Purchase Programme - International Monetary Fund | IMF
Source: International Monetary Fund | IMF
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DW NOTE
The IMF praising Ghana's domestic gold purchase programme is remarkable only for what it omits: Ghana restructured $13 billion in debt last year after the cedi lost 60% of its value in eighteen months. Buying gold with borrowed dollars to shore up reserves is not a monetary innovation — it is what you do when your currency is in free fall and the Fund's prior advice has demonstrably failed.