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examples of three Living Standard Measurement Study surveys: the 1998-99 Ghana survey, the 2000 Guatemala survey, and the 1997 …
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Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia. Among the policy lessons: 1) Nigeria and Zambia failed to unify and stabilize the …
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paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of HIV infection and associated sexual behaviors using data from the first five Demographic and Health Surveys to include HIV testing for a representative sample of the adult population. Emerging from a wealth of country relevant results, four important...
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Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty in Ghana. With only one exception, he … finds that both types of remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. But the size of the poverty …
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This paper investigates how land size measurements vary across three common land measurement methods (farmer estimated, Global Positioning System (GPS), and compass and rope), and the effect of land size measurement error on the inverse farm size relationship and input demand functions. The...
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This paper investigates the impact of Ghana's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession on firm-level product and labor …
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data that were collected in urban Ghana, this paper documents that men are 9 percentage points more likely to work in weeks …
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There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not...
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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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