Creating productive jobs is one of the greatest challenges in Ghana. This paper looks at job creation and its …

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 …

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 …

in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …

mining is a catalyst for proto-urbanization in rural Ghana. Using cross-sectional data, the analysis finds that locations …

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 …

taxes than for non-tax revenue from oil or aid. Two identical experiments on large, representative subject pools in Ghana …

development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …