This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …

Education began to be included as a component of foreign assistance in the early 1960s as it is a principal ingredient … education aid, examines their effectiveness, discusses major problems in implementing educational programmes and suggests ways … to improve aid in education. …

This paper examines the combined effect of interest rates and poverty levels of microfinance clients on loan size …. Cross section data on 2,691 clients and non-clients households from Ghana is used to test the hypothesis of loan price … poverty level is suggested in targeting and sustaining microfinance clients. …

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 … even though some of these, such as education, can be used to combat environmental degradation. Poor commitment of aid to …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

Ghana's experience since the early 1990s indicates that external aid can significantly impact a country';s democratic … transition. External democracy assistance has been a crucial, positive factor in Ghana's steady evolution into an electoral … democracy over the past two decades. Continuing gaps in the quality of Ghana's democracy confirms, however, that even sustained …

growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence … from recent in-depth country work on the impact of government policies and service provision in health and basic education …