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This paper develops a public education scheme that takes uncertainty aspects of private educational investments explicitly into account. In the author’s framework, the social merits of public education schemes are related to the lack of markets in which students can insure against educational...
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This Selected Issues paper on Ghana shows that as a small, open low-income economy, the country faces several major … challenges in its conduct of disinflation policy. Ghana has historically experienced volatile and often high inflation rates. The … paper also presents a model that recognizes difficulties being faced by Ghana, among them less-than-perfect credibility of …
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This Selected Issues paper reviews trends in GDP and their impact on poverty reduction in Ghana. It highlights … capita growth as set out in the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy …
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This Selected Issues paper reviews public service reform in Ghana. The paper highlights that a range of public service … reform initiatives have been undertaken in Ghana since the early 1980s. The public service in Ghana is composed of centrally …
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sustainability analysis provides a useful quantification of the impact of the shocks experienced on fiscal performance. Ghana …
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This Selected Issues paper examines competitiveness and the equilibrium real exchange rate for Ghana. It estimates a … behavioral equilibrium exchange rate model for Ghana to establish to what extent real effective exchange rate (REER) movements … measures of Ghana’s external competitiveness other than the gap between the actual and the estimated equilibrium REER …
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This paper gauges the potential effects on employment of rebalancing China''s exportoriented growth model toward domestic demand, particularly private consumption. Shifting to a private consumption-led growth likely means more demand for existing and new services as well as reorienting the...
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We examine the issue of technical assistance versus brain drain repatriation as alternative strategies for transferring scarce skills to a skill-poor economy. Technical assistance relies mainly on expatriate skills and labor from the host country, while brain drain repatriation seeks to effect a...
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This paper formulates a simple aggregate growth model that is capable of assessing the impact of macroeconomic policies on the long-term performance of a developing country. The model emphasizes expenditures on human capital and the dynamics of external debt, and yields empirically testable...
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This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital acquisition. We use the standard system GMM approach as well as...
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