their effectiveness today. Starting with the classical gold standard period, we point out that a succession of pegged … World War II the main problem was a shortage of monetary gold that we argue is implicated as a cause of the Great Depression …

a predictor for the performance of the entireyear. The second theory is that gold is counter-cyclical to the broad …

Lesotho; and has slightly declined in Ghana. The underlying factors with regard to the apparent increase hinge on the …

examines the impact of border anddistance on price transmission between tomato markets in Ghana and Burkina-Faso. Theanalysis … markets in Ghana and a production centre inBurkina-Faso. Estimated parameters of price transmission contain evidence of border …-Faso and coastal ones like Ghana. …

markets of Ghana by simultaneously regarding its fivemost important markets, Navrongo, Techiman, Kumasi, Tamale and Accra, in …, tomato markets in Ghana appear to beintegrated and function very well since price signals are rapidly passed throughthe …

markets in Ghana. It also assesses the impacts of food price increases on various household groups. Taking the recent global … northern Ghana. Different consumption patterns, in which grains account for a larger share of the consumption basket in the …

price transmission between domestic tomato markets in Ghana to ascertain whether spatial price transmission veritably … vector error correction model. The analysis reveals that prices in net producing areas of Ghana, viz. Navrongo and Techiman …

rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to … imported rice and five key rice producing centres in Ghana. In addition, the various policies that affected rice during the …, suggesting that markets for imported rice in Ghana are segmented, and domestic policies have generally not favoured local rice …

-structured questionnaire. The tobit model was used to estimate theintensity of export success by horticultural enterprises in Ghana …