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Understanding Ghana’s growth success story and job creation challenges
Ghana’s status as one of the African Lions is linked to the country’s remarkable growth performance, which culminated in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally, growth has been...
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Public policy aimed at building capacity among the extremely poor (support for food and nutrition; health; education and, more recently, financial services), combined with a stable macroeconomic environment, has proved to be successful for poverty...
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Manufacturing Productivity, Deindustrialization, and Reindustrialization
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Ghana
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Kenya
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Mozambique
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