The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … Lesotho; and has slightly declined in Ghana. The underlying factors with regard to the apparent increase hinge on the … Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and …

The Ghana cocoa market has been extensively liberalised over the period since the mid 1980s. Three issues have been … occurred. In this paper we investigate these issues by estimating a production function for cocoa in Ghana drawing on two …

panel data set of firms in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania that spans a period of five years. We find that the main determinant of … growth of firms in Africa. We find no evidence that larger firms have faster rates of productivity or input growth, or are …

Africa. By overcoming the difficulties in obtaining trade finance, African SMEs will be able to expand into foreign markets …