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This paper demonstrates that an empirical link between aid and trade exist (for some donor-recipient pairs), but that the nature of this linkage is complex and can take a variety of forms. By identifying this complexity (and variability) we challenge the assertion, often made in debates...
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Ghana’s tax reforms constitute the major policy instrument needed to accelerate growth and poverty reduction. Over the … the tax system in Ghana over the last two decades and suggests ways to improve tax administration in the country. …
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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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This study examines the structural transformation-inclusive growth nexus for Ghana. The data cover the post …-independence period for Ghana and are phased into three periods: the post-independence period to the start of the economic recovery …
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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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expenditure (PCE) and poverty status) in Ghana using the Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey Dataset. SEZs spillover effect on … understanding of the heterogeneous state of SEZs and poverty in Ghana. While data limitations prevented the study from drawing … conclusions on the direct channels at work, it was able to investigate the indirect channels, which suggests that SEZs in Ghana …
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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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conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in which farmers were randomly assigned to receive cash grants, grants of or …
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