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    Investigating inequality trends in Africa
    – ACEIR research and the WIID
    Martin Wittenberg, Murray Leibbrandt - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    Work done by the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) has documented the many-faceted nature of inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely high (in South Africa). Trying to tell one coherent...
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    Differences in inequality measurement
    – Ghana case study
    Richmond Atta-Ankomah, Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio, Robert Darko Osei - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently used in Ghana, have become useful in providing quantitative measures of welfare distribution that enable a better understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these...
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    The uneven path to recovery
    – The sub-Saharan experience
    Michael Danquah, Amina Ebrahim, Maureen Were - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    COVID-19 cases were first confirmed in March 2020 in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. These countries put in place several stringent measures, including lockdowns, to contain the spread of the virus. Various policies were also rolled out to address the disruption in economic activities, to mitigate...
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    SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v2.6
    Kwabena Adu-Ababio, Robert Darko Osei, Jukka Pirttilä, Pia Rattenhuber - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. The report describes the different tax-benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs. It concludes with a validation of GHAMOD results...
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    The labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns
    – Evidence from Ghana
    Simone Schotte, Michael Danquah, Robert Darko Osei, Kunal Sen - Journal of African Economies , 2023
    In this study, we provide causal evidence of the immediate and near-term impact of stringent COVID-19 lockdown policies on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two spatially...
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    Informal–formal transitions in work status in sub-Saharan Africa
    – A comparative perspective
    Michael Danquah, Simone Schotte, Kunal Sen - Oxford University Press , 2023
    From the book: The Job Ladder
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    Domestic savings in sub-Saharan Africa
    – The case of Ghana
    Charles Godfred Ackah, Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    One essential condition of economic progress in any society is an ample supply of savings, which depends on the growth of real capital. Economists agree that higher investment rates will lead to higher growth. Thus, domestic savings is considered an important determinant of growth in developing...
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    Ghana: employment and inequality trends
    Carlos Gradín, Simone Schotte - Oxford University Press , 2023 - Oxford
    From the book: Tasks, Skills, and Institutions
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    The effectiveness of social protection in five African countries through normal times and times of crisis
    Katrin Gasior, Iva V. Tasseva, Gemma Wright - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    We study the effectiveness of social protection benefits in reducing income and consumption poverty in five sub-Saharan African countries—Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia—in normal times and times of widespread economic crisis. Using tax–benefit microsimulation models with...
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    Humanity over economy: biopolitical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana
    James McKeown - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    This study posits that pandemics should be regarded as complex, open-ended phenomena that cannot be reduced to biology and epidemiology. The research assesses Ghana’s effectiveness in governing the COVID-19 pandemic contrary to apocalyptic predictions. This paper critiques Ghana’s responses to the...
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    Ethnic diversity and informal work in Ghana
    Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Michael Danquah - Journal of Development Studies , 2022
    Part of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality
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    Confronting low domestic savings in Africa
    Charles Godfred Ackah, Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    What are the linkages between national savings and sustainable economic growth? Why are there differences in the amounts of savings between different countries? In March, we introduced our research on Ghana at the UNU-WIDER Domestic savings project workshop. A compilation of the different working...
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    Microsimulation approaches to studying shocks and social protection in selected developing economies
    Kwabena Adu-Ababio - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    This paper calculates automatic stabilization in Ghana, South Africa, and Ecuador to explain income cushioning amid income and demand shocks. Fiscal policies within these countries are also stress tested to gauge welfare contingencies and insurance. A discretionary action approach is adopted for...
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    SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v2.5
    Kwabena Adu-Ababio, Robert Darko Osei, Jukka Pirttilä, Pia Rattenhuber - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    View the latest GHAMOD country report here . This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. The report describes the different tax-benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs. It...
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    Adverse political settlements
    – An impediment to structural transformation and inclusive growth in Ghana
    Robert Darko Osei, Richmond Atta-Ankomah, Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio - Oxford University Press , 2022
    From the book: The Developer’s Dilemma
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    Residual capacity and the political economy of pandemic response in Ghana
    Kofi Takyi Asante - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    On the whole, poor countries in Africa and elsewhere seem to have weathered the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19) pandemic better than wealthier countries with superior healthcare systems. Using the Ghanaian case, this paper draws on newspaper articles, policy statements, and other secondary...
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