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Fintech is increasingly recognized as a key enabler for financial sectors worldwide, enabling more efficient and competitive financial markets while expanding access to finance for traditionally underserved consumers. A critical challenge for policy makers is to harness the benefits and...
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The global toll of human suffering and material loss due to disasters has led to growing public concern and expanded institutional response in the form of disaster relief and recovery assistance from individuals, governments, and intergovernmental organizations. Initial humanitarian concern has...
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Kenya is an emerging middle income country with a growing share of its population living in urban areas. The country is at a relatively early stage of urbanisation, with around 27 percent of Kenyans living in urban areas, yet projections suggest that by 2050, about half the population will be...
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Rapid urbanization in Ghana over the past three decades has coincided with rapid GDP growth. This has helped to create … Ghanaians. Ghana’s urban transformation has been momentous, but it is not unique: a similar process has characterized other … countries at similar levels of development. Ghana’s key challenge now is to ensure that urbanization continues to complement …
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-country pilot carried out in Ghana, Honduras, Kenya, and Nigeria. Section 1 of the paper provides the general background within …
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A World Bank Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) team conducted a study in Ghana between September 2016 and March 2017 …. This study has been consolidated in the form of a PPP Disclosure Diagnostic Report for Ghana. The Diagnostic Report … in Ghana. This Diagnostic Report recommends a systematic structure for proactively disclosing information through a …
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Ghana has been a rising growth star and a beacon of hope in West Africa. Strong economic growth over the past two …. GDP per capita grew by an average of 3 percent per year over the past two decades, putting Ghana in the top ten fastest … options for Ghana to create enough higher quality jobs through economic transformation. Economic transformation, or inclusive …
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The Country Opinion Survey in Ghana assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in Ghana perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments …, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Ghana on 1) their views regarding the …
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In September 2017, Ghana's economy expanded for the fifth successive quarter by 9.3 percent compared to just 4 …
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