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– A comparative assessment of data and performance
In this chapter, we conceptualise an ideal framework that captures three reinforcing levers for measuring local government performance in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Ghana, namely policy pronouncement, political processes and internal operations, and policy implementation. Given data...
Book Chapter
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Tasks, Skills, and Institutions
Book Chapter
This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
– An impediment to structural transformation and inclusive growth in Ghana
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The Developer’s Dilemma
Technical Note
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Agricultural subsidies may have significant productive and distributional consequences, and policy-makers need to be able to assess these impacts as a part of the overall tax and benefit policy. Microsimulation models offer a tool for such analysis also in developing countries, but their coverage...
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This note, with emphasis on VAT and excise taxes, illustrates how indirect taxes are modelled in the context of GHAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana. GHAMOD is similar to the EUROMOD base platform, and its built-in Statistics Presenter Tool supports simple analyses of ex-ante policy...
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Mining for Change
Journal Special Issue
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Building knowledge about migration governance and policy in the Global South is a priority for research and policy. The studies in this special section offer both new empirical insights and new frameworks for analysis, with key policy implications, that can enrich our discussion of these topics...
The agro-processing industry and its potential for structural transformation of the Ghanaian economy
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Industries without Smokestacks
Book Chapter
– Poverty Reduction over Thirty Years
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Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Book Chapter
– Lessons from Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius, and South Africa
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Achieving Development Success
Book Chapter
– The Limits of External Democracy Assistance
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Democratic Trajectories in Africa
Book Chapter
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
– The Development Record and the Washington Consensus
The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa is a definitive and comprehensive account of the key issues and topics affecting Africa's ability to grow and develop. It includes 53 thematic and 48 country perspectives by a veritable who's who of more than 100 leading economic analysts of Africa...
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Foreign Aid for Development
Book Chapter
– A Risk-Cost Configuration Approach
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Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development
Book Chapter
– Using an Index of Consumer Durables to Investigate Wealth Accumulation by Households in Ghana
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Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective
Book Chapter
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Food Security
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) give aid to Africa a new emphasis. Yet aid flows to Africa have trended downward over the last decade, and as a consequence more Africans now live in poverty. This is especially true of Sub-Saharan Africa. Any progress towards the main MDG target of halving...
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– Inclusion and Exclusion in Mutual Insurance Networks in Southern Ghana
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Insurance Against Poverty
Book Chapter
– A Comparative Study of Ghana and Tanzania
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Reforming Africa's Institutions
Book Chapter
– Case Studies from Ghana and Indonesia
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Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action
This special issue of the Journal of International Development presents the results of a study initiated two years ago by UNU/WIDER on `The impact of the liberalization of the exchange rate and financial markets in sub-Saharan Africa'. The project has benefited from the contributions of African and...
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