This paper uses the roll-out of the national health insurance in Ghana to assess the cushioning effect of coverage on …

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 …

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 …

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

(from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty in Ghana. With only one exception …, he finds that both types of remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. But the size of the … poverty reduction depends on how poverty is being measured. The author finds that poverty is reduced more when international …

Measuring and comparing the levels of household welfare and poverty in a country require cost-of-living differences … importance of detailed product quality information in the price data. Taking advantage of the price data availability in Ghana … spatial price adjustment in poverty analysis in low- and middle-income countries …