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Our high debt stock caused by Covid-19, banking sector clean-up, payment of excess power-Veep

April 7, 2022

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has attributed Ghana’s current debt stock of 80% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to the Covid-19 outbreak, the banking sector clean, and payment of excess power.

The Vice President says if not for these three major challenges that confronted the country, Ghana’s debt stock to GDP would have been 68% and not the 80% we have currently seen.

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He stated these remarks while addressing TESCON members on Thursday, April 7, 2022, on the state of the economy.

The World Bank had argued that Ghana’s public debt stock as of now exceeded the 80% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) mark, putting the country in a tighter corner with respect to financing and interest payments.

The Bank of Ghana, in its January 2022 Monetary Policy Report, said the stock of public debt was equivalent to 78.4% of GDP at the end of 2021, compared with 76.1% of GDP at the end of 2020.

The country’s total public debt stock stood at about ¢344.5 billion as of November 2021.

But the Country Director of the World Bank, Pierre Laporte, reacting to the data noted that “The data as we know is close to 80% of GDP. Probably, now as we speak, it might have exceeded.”

Dr. Bawumia reacting to this and other comments by other experts admitted that the debt stock to debt stock was 80% but we’re caused by the Covid-19 outbreak and the banking sector clean-up.

But for the banking sector and the Excess Energy payment the debt would be hovering around 68 per cent instead of the 81 per cent.

“Between 2019 and 2021 Ghana’s debt to GDP increased by 17.6 percentage points of GDP. It should be noted that without the 15.1 billion of the exceptional items – the financial sector and then the energy and Covid Ghana’s debt to GDP would have been about 68 per cent instead of the current 80 per cent,” he declared.

By: Rashid Obodai Provencal/Rainbowradioonline.com

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