Ghana

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IMF country report ; no.13/187

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Cover; CONTENTS; RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND OUTLOOK: HIGH POTENTIAL BUT SHORT-TERM RISK; FIGURES; 1. Real Sector Indicators; 2. External Indicators; POLICY DISCUSSIONS; ECONOMIC POLICY AGENDA: ADVANCING MIDDLE-INCOME STATUS; FISCAL POLICY: REALIGNING PRIORITIES; 3. Fiscal Indicators; BOXES; 1. Assessing Reserve Adequacy in Ghana; 2. External Sustainability Assessment; MONETARY POLICY: LITTLE ROOM FOR EASING; 4. Monetary and Financial Indicators; 3. Six Years of Inflation Targeting in Ghana: Policy Lessons and Challenges; 4. Enhanced Financial Sector Surveillance: Main Conclusions

STAFF APPRAISALTABLES; 1. Selected Economic and Financial Indicators, 2011-18; 2A. Summary of Central Government Budgetary Operations, 2011-18 (in percent of GDP); 2B. Summary of Central Government Budgetary Operations, 2011-18 (in millions of GHc); 2C. Summary of Budgetary Central Government Operations, 2008-18 (in percent of GDP); 2D. Summary of Budgetary Central Government Operations, 2008-18 (millions of GHc); 3. Monetary Survey, 2011-18; 4. Balance of Payments, 2011-18; 5. Financial Soundness Indicators, 2007-12; APPENDIXES; I. Risk Assessment Matrix

II. Inclusive Growth Successes and ChallengesIII. Public Investment, Growth, and Debt Sustainability; IV. Implementation of the 2011 FSAP Update-Key Policy Recommendations; CONTENTS; GLOSSARY; INTRODUCTION; MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT IN 2012; OVERVIEW OF THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM; TABLES; 1. Structure of the Financial System; THE BANKING SECTOR; A. Access to Credit and Banks' Performance; B. Banking Soundness; FIGURES; 1. Evolution of Returns on Average Asset (ROAA) and Equity (ROEE); 2. Evolution of NPLs, Provisions, CARs and Leverage Ratios, 2005-2012; 3. Evolution of Liquidity Ratios, 2005-2012

4. Selected Interest Rates, Credit to GDP and NPL RateC. Regulatory and Supervisory Developments; NONBANK FINANCIAL SECTOR; A. Overview of Financial Services; B. Rural and Community Banks; 2. Types of Financial Institutions Outside Commercial Banks; C. Microfinance Services; D. Mobile Banking; E. Insurance; ROLE OF THE STATE IN THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM; A. Public Banks; 3. Overview of the Shareholding of the Four Public Banks (2012); 4. Key Financial and Prudential Indicators of Public Banks (2012); B. Social Security and National Insurance Trust; C. Independence of the Supervisor

D. Policy RecommendationsMONETARY POLICY FRAMEWORK AND IMPLEMENTATION; A. Inflation Targeting: Challenges and Opportunities; B. Liquidity Management Framework; 5. Policy Rate and Money Market Interest Rates (Jan 2007-Dec 2012); C. Money and Foreign Exchange Markets; 6. Interbank Market Activities (Jan 2008-Mar 2013; 7. Foreign Exchange Interbank Market (daily; 2012); D. Policy Recommendations; APPENDIX; I. Evolution of Financial Indicators (2002-2011); CONTENTS; RELATIONS WITH THE FUND; JOINT WORLD BANK-IMF WORK PROGRAM, 2012-13; STATISTICAL ISSUES

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