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 …

transmission, market integration and the realisation of the welfareenhancingrole of cross-border trade in Africa. This study … 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 …

We assess market integration and price transmission of perishableagricultural produce in Sub-Saharan Africa by studying … 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 …

Cross-border trade in food commodities within sub-regional economic blocks in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) is believed to be … transmission between tomato in Ghana and Burkina-Faso. The analysis applies a linear and a regime-switching vector error correction … model to estimate wholesale prices of tomato in four tomato markets in Ghana and a producer market in Burkina-Faso. The …

persistence of high fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. Although fertility behaviour depends on multiplicity of factors, childhood … the usefulness of frailty models in exploring the childhood mortality-fertility relationships using DHS data from Ghana … multivariate results demonstrated that models without unobserved heterogeneity tended to produce biased estimates. Comparing Ghana …