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We examine the implications of the rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa for food consumption patterns and the food system. A unique classification of food items shows that highly processed food has one-third of the purchased food market, with comparable shares in rural and urban...
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Ghana, in contrast, adopts the 'co-opt-elite' approach and deliberately absorbs local elites into the water committee. This …
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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 … ; microfinance ; Ghana …
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This study provides an analysis of the aid-private capital flows-growth nexus for Ghana. It is premised on the argument … that Ghana's new status as a middle income country plus the start of oil production is bound to result in a reduction in … curse'. The study makes two key observations about the economy of Ghana. First, it notes that although the structure of the …
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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 …
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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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The article explores the various co-ordination mechanisms between the state and the business community in Ghana, and …
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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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, hiding of income can occur even when revelation increases bargaining power. I draw data from Ghana and exploit the variation …
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, such fisheries are overcapitalized and overfished. In Ghana, in addition to anthropogenic factors, there is evidence of …
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