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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...
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Tasks, Skills, and Institutions
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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
The agro-processing industry and its potential for structural transformation of the Ghanaian economy
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Industries without Smokestacks
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– Poverty Reduction over Thirty Years
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Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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– 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
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– A Risk-Cost Configuration Approach
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Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development
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– Using an Index of Consumer Durables to Investigate Wealth Accumulation by Households in Ghana
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Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective
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Food Security
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– Inclusion and Exclusion in Mutual Insurance Networks in Southern Ghana
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Insurance Against Poverty
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– A Comparative Study of Ghana and Tanzania
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Reforming Africa's Institutions
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– Case Studies from Ghana and Indonesia
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Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action
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