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Author: Ernest Aryeetey
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As Ghana enters its second half-century, there is a perception of the failure of the economic and political system. This book analyses the reasons for this failure and sets out an agenda as the basis of the course that the nations' policy makers have to steer if Ghana is to fulfil the promise of its independence in 1957.
Author: Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-22
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1351793136
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title was first published in 2001. When Ghana became independent in 1957, becoming the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to banish colonialism, there was a general optimism that irreversible socio-economic development was about to unfold. But by the end of the 1970s Ghana paradoxically became the first country in Twentieth Century Africa to have experienced socio-economic decline. What failed Ghana? This book seeks to answer this question. By combining sociological, economic, political and institutional perspectives, this book focuses on the interplay between state politics and socio-economic development. It provides a model, which suggests that Ghana’s postcolonial development has suffered mainly as a result of the failure or inability of governing elites to develop consensual politics and a clearly specified long-term development objective that could be widely understood, accepted and have relevance for policy making. This book presents a much-needed self-assessment of the post-colonial development experience which contends that governance, economic management and institution building are basic challenges without which the search for development is likely to falter.
Author: Ernest Aryeetey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 0198753438
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As Ghana approaches its 60th birthday, optimism and worries for the future continue to be present in equal measure. Economic growth in the last decade has been high by historical standards. Indeed, recent rebasing of GDP figures has put Ghana over the per capita income threshold into Middle Income Country status. However, structural transformation has lagged behind. Fiscal discipline has also eroded significantly and there is heavy borrowing, especially on the commercial market, while elements of the natural resource curse from oil have already occurred. The question most observers ask is whether the gains from two decades of reforms are being reversed. Given this background, this volume brings together leading established and young economists, from within and outside Ghana, to analyze and assess the challenges facing Ghana's economy as it enters its seventh decade and the nation heads towards three quarters of a century of independence. The chapters cover the major macroeconomic and sectoral issues, including fiscal and monetary policy, trade and industrialization, agriculture and infrastructure. The volume also covers a full range of social issues including poverty and inequality, education, health, gender, and social protection. The book also examines the implications of the oil boom for Ghanaian development, and the role of institutions.
Author: Karima Saleh
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2012-12-27
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0821396005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume analyzes Ghana s health system performance and highlights the range of policy options needed to improve health system performance and health outcomes.
Author: Charles Ackah
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9988647360
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Citing a paucity of empirical evidence on the poverty and distributional impacts of trade policy reform in Ghana as the main motivation for this volume, the editors (both of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research at the U. of Ghana) present eleven papers that combine theory and econometric analysis in an effort to assess linkages between globalization, trade, and poverty (including gendered aspects). Specific topics examined include manufacturing employment and wage effects of trade liberalization; the influence of education on trade liberalization impacts on household welfare; trade liberalization and manufacturing firm productivity; the impact of elimination of trade taxes on poverty and income distribution; food prices, tax reforms, and consumer welfare under trade liberalization; impacts on tariff revenues; and impacts on cash cropping, gender, and household welfare; Distributed in the US by Stylus. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author: Clemens Breisinger, Xinshen Diao, James Thurlow, Bingxin Yu, and Shashidhara Kolavalli
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Xinshen Diao
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0198845340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using Ghana as a case study, this work integrates economic and political analysis to explore the challenges and opportunities of Africa's growth and transformation.
Author: Daniel Bruce Sarpong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-20
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0429842406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published in 1997, this text is set in a context where Ghana has experienced improvements in aggregate output performance over the past decade (1986-1996) yet agriculture's performance remains sub-optimal. The author focuses on agriculture's fragmentation as attributable to space (storage, transportation and marketing), form (rudimentary production methods in general) and content (stagnent productivity and poor organization of production) and notes that whilst current policies have impinged on the space fragmentation, issues on form and content seem to have been left to the dictates of the market. The author calls for a strategy of government plan in promoting modern technology in agriculture to enhance its linkage to industry for rapid and sustainable economic growth.
Author: Ernest Aryeetey
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780865438446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reviews the performance of the Ghanaian economy for the period 1983 to 1991, aimed at assessing the impact of structural adjustment policies in different areas of the economy.
