less on selling household assets or livestock to cope with drought. In Burkina Faso and Ghana, international remittance …

While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods … considerable doubt on the meaning of widely-used summary measures such as subjective poverty rates. Nonetheless, under the … poverty and welfare. …

accurate calculation of a cost-of-basic-needs poverty line. The standard approach uses the per-calorie cost of the food …

This paper uses a new, nationally-representative household survey from Ghana to analyze within a rigorous econometric … framework how the receipt of internal remittances (from within Ghana) and international remittances (from African or other … receiving remittances in Ghana do not spend more at the margin on food, education and housing than households with similar …

(from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control … 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 …