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We’ve managed exchange rate better than NDC – Bawumia

Delali Adogla-BessabyDelali Adogla-Bessa
September 15, 2018
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Amid the cedi’s depreciation to the dollar, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia insists that the Akufo-Addo administration has managed the exchange rate better than the Mahama administration.

He said the reasons for the cedi’s dwindling performance against the country’s major trading were because of extraordinary pressures on global capital markets.

[contextly_sidebar id=”LE0dFJxA59fmDENF1B8i706tBkqGl8j7″]“According to Bank of Ghana data, the cedi exchange rate increased from GHc1.1 to the dollar at the end of 2008 to GHc4.2 to the dollar (close to a quadruple increase) in 2016. Since we assumed office the exchange rate has increased from GHc4.2 to the dollar to GHc4.4 as at December 2017 and GHc4.75 now.”

“It is therefore clear that we have managed the exchange rate much better than our predecessors and also much better than many other countries this year,” Dr. Bawumia stated.

The Vice President was speaking at the Student Entrepreneurship Initiative at the Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO) in Tamale on Friday 14th September 2018.

He also said the country’s macroeconomic performance showed clearly that “Ghana’s economic fundamentals are strong, and we can withstand the temporary challenges confronting the cedi.”

Other currencies struggling

Situating the Cedi’s performance in context, Vice President Bawumia observed that “the exchange rate of the cedi to the US dollar remained relatively stable when compared with movements in other currencies against the US dollar.”

The Vice President attributed the relative weakness of a number of currencies, including the cedi, against the dollar, to measures being implemented by America’s Federal Reserve, emphasising that the recent policy rate hikes and normalization in the United States has caused some shock spillovers to many emerging markets, causing their currencies to depreciate at rates and magnitudes higher than the cedi.

Other countries that have experienced challenges with the dollar include the Argentina Peso has depreciated by 50.2%; the Turkish Lira by 42%; the South African Rand by 19.2%; the Indian Rupee by 11.2%; the UK Pound by 4.29% and the Euro by 4.2%, he added.

Within the Ghanaian context also, recent historical trends on the cedi’s performance show that the year-to-date 7% depreciation of the cedi is the second best since 2012. BoG data indicates that the Cedi depreciated by 17.5% in 2012; 14.6% in 2013; 31.3% in 2014; 15.6% in 2015; 7.9% in 2016; and 4.9% in 2017.

“With this, the lowest and second lowest depreciation since 2012 were both achieved under President Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration in 2017 and 2018, respectively” Dr. Bawumia stated.

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By: citinewsroom.com/Ghana

 

 

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