services in rural and urban households in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach – Data from the Ghana Living Standard Survey 5 …

services in rural and urban households in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach – Data from the Ghana Living Standard Survey 5 …

This paper presents a review of the current debt problem in Ghana and assesses whether debt relief under the HIPC … initiative can be effectively translated into poverty reduction. The extent of the debt burden is jeopardizing Ghana’s effort at … poverty reduction. The evidence suggests that debt relief could have a positive effect on poverty reduction in Ghana, although …

There has been significant amount of aid inflows to developing countries including Ghana, but these have been very … volatile. Aid flows have been associated with low domestic resource mobilization and have reduced Ghana to a country heavily … direct links with poverty. However, this has not yielded the maximum benefits required. Recently, the government of Ghana and …

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. …

Ghana. This is done using time-series data from the World Development Indicators from 1970-2001. The main findings are …, first, that even though financial sector development does not Granger-cause savings mobilization in Ghana, it induces … poverty reduction; and second, that savings do Granger-cause poverty reduction in Ghana. Also, the effect of financial sector …