Ghana’s tax reforms constitute the major policy instrument needed to accelerate growth and poverty reduction. Over the … significantly reduce poverty. The critical issue has been how to generate the needed resources domestically, using tax instruments … the tax system in Ghana over the last two decades and suggests ways to improve tax administration in the country. …

poverty reduction; and second, that savings do Granger-cause poverty reduction in Ghana. Also, the effect of financial sector … development on poverty reduction is positive but insignificant. This is due to the fact that financial intermediaries in Ghana …The paper primarily investigates the interrelationship between financial sector development and poverty reduction in …

This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the … 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as …

Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this period, showing improvements in almost all indicators over this …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

growth, and poverty is less straightforward than simple models of the resource curse suggest. Taking Ghana as a stylized …This paper investigates the effects of oil financed public investment on poverty using a dynamic multisectoral general … which favor nontradable activities over export agriculture and manufacturing thereby increasing rural and national poverty …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

income poverty are imperative for different locations in Ghana. …This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of …

Sustainable Development Goals, particularly poverty in Ghana. Specifically, the study examined the effect of COVID-19 on poverty …The novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has become a global epidemic, hit Ghana on 12 March 2020 and, in … less than a week, increased by over 300% with two deaths. As of 11 August 2020, Ghana had recorded over 41,000 cases with …

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 … (MTE) models were used to correct the potential selection bias and to estimate the effect of SEZs on household poverty …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …