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 …

Earlier studies have assumed the effect of tax systems on poverty and inequality to be symmetric by imposing linear … specifications. In this study, we account for possible asymmetries by re-examining the effect of tax systems on poverty and … inequality in Ghana. We rely on the Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) estimation techni que and time-series data …

high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared … 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 …

and long-run growth. Our model can generate transitory informality equilibria or informality-induced poverty traps. Its … calibration reveals that the case for the poverty-trap hypothesis is strong: although informality serves to protect low …-skilled workers from extreme poverty in the short-run, it prevents income convergence between developed and developing nations in the …