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both the extensive and intensive margins, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in … which strict stay-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two spatially delimited areas, bringing Ghana's major …
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On the whole, poor countries in Africa and elsewhere seem to have weathered the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19 …, Ghana was able to surmount the limitations of its weak and underresourced public health system by leveraging 'residual …
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and epidemiology. The research assesses Ghana's effectiveness in governing the COVID-19 pandemic contrary to apocalyptic … predictions. This paper critiques Ghana's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of Foucault's biopolitics. The main … result of this study showed that Ghana survived the pandemic because of effective policies, not providence. The study also …
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We study how the stringency of policy measures to counter the COVID-19 pandemic affects individuals' trust in formal institutions. Drawing on micro-level panel data from Germany spanning an 18-month period from the onset of the pandemic, we show that, on average, there is a pronounced negative...
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The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The on-going pandemic and its countermeasures have led to varying physical, psychological, and emotional experiences, shaping not just public health and the economy but also...
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A growing body of research shows that COVID-19 both reflects and exacerbates existing inequalities. However, there are significant gaps in this research area with respect to 'horizontal' or group-based inequalities in Global South countries. Lack of group-disaggregated data often contributes. In...
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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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