Climate change scenarios for many Sub-Saharan African countries including Ghana indicate that temperatures will increase while rainfall will either increase or decrease. The potential impact of climate change on economic systems is well-known. However, little has been done to assess its economic...

In this paper we discuss aid and the environment in Ghana. Our analysis indicates that expenditure by the government of Ghana has increased consistently since 2000, with seven sectors weakly linked to the environment taking about 78.9 per cent of all government expenditure. Also, the rate of...

Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana is experiencing the impact of the global crisis and the uncertain economic outlook. Indeed, as Ghana’s economy is among the most open in Africa, it is expected that the country has been and will continue to be severely affected by the crisis,...

Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana is experiencing the impact of the global crisis and the uncertain economic outlook. Indeed, as Ghana’s economy is among the most open in Africa, it is expected that the country has been and will continue to be severely affected by the crisis,...

The majority of people in Sub-Saharan Africa does not have a basic bank account and are financially excluded from main stream financial services. This paper examines factors that drive geographic exclusion of banking services to rural communities and households' demand for a basic bank account...

Ghana is again experiencing large and chronic fiscal deficits that many analysts attribute to a sharp increase in its the public-sector wage bill. This study uses macroeconomic and household survey data to examine public employment and public wages both historically and in comparison with...

A growing number of formal commercial banks are increasingly showing interest in financing the vast underserved and untapped market of microenterprises in Ghana. However, the greater majority are still on the fence and are hesitant to venture into microlending. Using field survey data from a...

The primary goal of this study is to gauge the incentive properties of the various sources of microenterprise financing. Specifically, the study seeks to investigate the effects of nature and a range of institutional sources of finance on micro and small enterprises' (MSEs) productivity edge and...