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In this paper we discuss aid and the environment in Ghana. Our analysis indicates that expenditure by the government of … Ghana has increased consistently since 2000, with seven sectors weakly linked to the environment taking about 78.9 per cent …
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countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This … exchange rate. In Ghana, declining aid in the 1970s was associated with lacking growth while the reactivation of aid flows in …
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so in Ghana, with a focus on the role of aid in the process of state building and state transition in these two countries …. Before the 1960s, South Korea and Ghana shared approximately similar levels of GDP per capita. However, while South Korea … achieved rapid economic development and democracy in one generation, Ghana suffered from slow development and a general …
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palm investment in Ghana: contract farming and secure property rights to land. We compare farmers to whom outgrower …
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Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country's poor people … investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … Living Standards Survey, in addition to data on annual rainfall and temperature for northern Ghana for the period 1991 to …
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and the southwestern and coastal basin systems of Ghana has been undertaken as a component of the impacts and adaptation … study for Ghana by UNU-WIDER and the University of Ghana. Four climate change scenarios were considered in addition to a … the water allocation modeling. The climate impacts on yields of many of the economically important Ghana crops were …
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Long-run economic development in Ghana is potentially vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change given the country … surfaces are potentially cost-effective means of mitigating most of the damages from climate change in Ghana. …
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, such fisheries are overcapitalized and overfished. In Ghana, in addition to anthropogenic factors, there is evidence of …
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The paper analyses labour market participation and selection into specific employment sectors in urban areas of Ghana … is found to increase the probability of employment but the reverse is the case in Ghana as education increases the …
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