detracting from the potential development of Northern Ghana. North-South migration is potentially a strong instrument for poverty …Twenty years of rapid economic development in Ghana has done little, if anything, to reduce the historical North, South … divide in standards of living. While rural development and urbanization have led to significant poverty reduction in the …

This study, a draft of which was shared with the Government of Ghana in November 2009, provides a basic diagnostic of … the benefit incidence and targeting performance of a large number of social programs in Ghana. Both broad-based programs … targeted programs (such as Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty, or LEAP, the indigent exemption under the National Health …

For most of the last two decades, Ghana's economy has been on a high growth path, which has been accompanied by … significant reduction in poverty. Despite this progress, large macroeconomic imbalances threaten growth and continued poverty … reduction. Rapid economic growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality in terms of income and …

Matrix for Ghana. The paper finds that both the direct impacts of food prices and the indirect impacts of oil prices are …

producers and consumers. In Ghana, the impact of a change in the price of rice is not ambiguous because a large share of the … comprehensive household survey, this paper provides an assessment of the potential impact of higher food prices on the poor in Ghana …, and other cereals would together lead to an increase in poverty, but that by contrast to a number of other countries, this …

remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To … internal and international remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. However, the size of the … poverty reduction depends on the type of remittances received. In general, poverty in Ghana is reduced more by international …

Poverty, environment, social development, and gender are important cross-cutting themes of the World Bank and … between gender, environment, and poverty and help identify approaches that can accelerate the positive synergy and better … social/gender, environment, and poverty outcomes; otherwise, the existing negative relationships may slow the development …

After the return to democracy, Ghana achieved significant economic growth and poverty reduction. However, in recent … years, the rate of poverty reduction has slowed, becoming insignificant after 2012. The largest reduction in poverty, 2 … in 2005-2012, and dropped to 0.2 percent per year between 2012 and 2016. The slowdown in poverty reduction was not due to …

losses of output and value addition. The poverty impacts of human heat stress in Ghana are also assessed, disaggregated to …In this paper, authors assess the economic impacts of increased heat stress in humans in Ghana. As mean global … disproportionately affected, especially those close to the poverty line if they earn large portions of their income from their labor and …