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The concept of green growth implies that a wide range of developmental objectives, such as job creation, economic prosperity and poverty alleviation, can be easily reconciled with environmental sustainability. This study, however, argues that rather than being win-win, green growth is similar to...
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This paper provides a synthesis of the country cases in the Middle East and North Africa: Oman, Bahrain, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. Although these countries differ in terms of resource endowments and economic evolution, they share common aspects of successful development. This...
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Almost all major development institutions today say that promoting good governance is an important part of their agendas. Despite this consensus, 'good governance' is an extremely elusive objective: it means different things to different organizations and to different actors within these...
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Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since …
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The article explores the various co-ordination mechanisms between the state and the business community in Ghana, and …
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. Cross section data on 2,691 clients and non-clients households from Ghana is used to test the hypothesis of loan price …
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In this paper we discuss aid and the environment in Ghana. Our analysis indicates that expenditure by the government of … Ghana has increased consistently since 2000, with seven sectors weakly linked to the environment taking about 78.9 per cent …
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countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This … exchange rate. In Ghana, declining aid in the 1970s was associated with lacking growth while the reactivation of aid flows in …
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so in Ghana, with a focus on the role of aid in the process of state building and state transition in these two countries …. Before the 1960s, South Korea and Ghana shared approximately similar levels of GDP per capita. However, while South Korea … achieved rapid economic development and democracy in one generation, Ghana suffered from slow development and a general …
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Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country's poor people … investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … Living Standards Survey, in addition to data on annual rainfall and temperature for northern Ghana for the period 1991 to …
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