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This paper considers the case for universal child allowances in Ghana. It follows findings from an earlier study of 14 … margins of the poverty line were found to be small and robustness and sensitivity tests were done to accompany simulation …
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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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Long-run economic development in Ghana is potentially vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change given the country … surfaces are potentially cost-effective means of mitigating most of the damages from climate change in Ghana. …
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Climate change scenarios for many Sub-Saharan African countries including Ghana indicate that temperatures will … cumulatively (2020-2100) cost Ghana US$473 million to maintain and repair damages caused to existing roads as a result of climate …
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poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households …
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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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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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Although the effect of fiscal drag is well studied in the industrialized world, empirical evidence from developing economies remains limited. Against this backdrop, this study aims to explore the effect of fiscal drag on income distribution and work incentives. To this end, the study employs...
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Presumptive tax, a final tax on business income, was introduced in Uganda in 1997. The latest reform to the regime in July 2020 sought to make the system more progressive, simpler and fairer to small firms. In this work, we evaluate the reform, focusing on its revenue implications based on...
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This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country's Seventh National Development Plan (2017-21). It further assesses the domestic...
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