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rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of … income poverty are imperative for different locations in Ghana. …
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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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in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the …
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accessible to all. In Ghana - although basic education is largely free - for secondary education this was not the case until … effect of the reform on household poverty and inequality. Analysis is based on the Ghana Microsimulation Model which has the … Ghana Living Standards Survey - Round 6 as its base input data. Results provide policy makers with some good ex …
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used in Ghana, have become useful in providing quantitative measures of welfare distribution that enable a better … understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these measures, we know that inequality has been rising in Ghana despite … high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …
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inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely … statistics with those produced by ACEIR in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. The underlying country-specific income and expenditure …
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protection. Results from a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana are combined with the extensive margin elasticity of …
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Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the...
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The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the period since the early/mid-1990s when growth in these countries as a group has been relatively...
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The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...
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