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Creating productive jobs is one of the greatest challenges in Ghana. This paper looks at job creation and its …
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Ghana is an exceptional case in the Sub-Saharan Africa landscape. Together with a handful of other countries, Ghana … are available. In addition, different from many other countries in the continent, Ghana's rapid growth translated into … the concentration of households around the highest and lowest deciles; there was a clear surge in polarization indeed …
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This papers investigates to what extent internal migration contributes to improving households' welfare in Ghana. Using … the most recent and nationally representative household survey (Ghana Living Standards Survey 2012/13), the estimates … indicate that on average migration increases consumption significantly, and the effect is driven by households migrating from …
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A business plan competition is conducted to test whether survey instruments or panel judges are able to identify the fastest growing firms. Participants submitted six- to eight-page business plans and defended them before a three- or four-judge panel. Applicants are surveyed shortly after they...
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in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …
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mining is a catalyst for proto-urbanization in rural Ghana. Using cross-sectional data, the analysis finds that locations …
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This paper analyses the evolution of fiscal and monetary variables in Ghana, from the discovery of oil in 2007 through … framework. The suggested causes include the politics of Ghana's dominant two-party system. Finally, the paper discusses what … Ghana could have done differently to avoid the various damaging effects associated with the oil discovery. It does not aim …
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taxes than for non-tax revenue from oil or aid. Two identical experiments on large, representative subject pools in Ghana …
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development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
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Although a large literature highlights the impact of personality traits on key labor market outcomes, evidence of their impact on agricultural production decisions remains limited. Data from 1,200 Ghanaian rice farmers suggest that noncognitive skills (polychronicity, work centrality, and...
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