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Ghana has experienced a decade of solid and exceptionally high growth. Between 2005 and 2015, income nearly doubled … decompositions and growth regressions. For the comparative perspective, the paper compares Ghana with its structural and aspirational …
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economic pursuits can enhance the effect of structural transformation on economic growth. This study examines Ghana's recent … setback to Ghana's economic progress and plans, but these challenges also underscore the need for structural transformation …
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development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries-Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
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This paper analyses the evolution of fiscal and monetary variables in Ghana, from the discovery of oil in 2007 through … framework. The suggested causes include the politics of Ghana's dominant two-party system. Finally, the paper discusses what … Ghana could have done differently to avoid the various damaging effects associated with the oil discovery. It does not aim …
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What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
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This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exercises can be misleading, for a variety of...
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Ethiopia has achieved sustained high growth for more than a decade. At the same time, the country has been facing several economic challenges, including falling exports, chronic foreign currency shortages, as well as a slow pace of structural transformation. In recent years, the already...
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The Korean manufacturing sector has undergone active structural transformation in the past few decades. In particular, the composition of core manufacturing products has changed over time. In the 1970s, textiles, which are used to produce fabric, clothes, apparel, and shoes, were the main...
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