The economy of Ghana : analytical perspectives on stability, growth & poverty / / edited by Ernest Aryeetey & Ravi Kanbur

• Pubblicazione: Suffolk : , : Boydell & Brewer, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 330.966705
• Soggetto geografico: Ghana Economic conditions 1957-1979; Ghana Economic conditions 1979-
• Classificazione: QG 720
• Persona (resp. second.): AryeeteyErnest <1955->; KanburS. M. Ravi <1954->
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Ghana's Economy at Half Century : An Overview of Stability, Growth & Poverty / Ernest Aryeetey & Ravi Kanbur -- What drives change in Ghana? ; Ghana's economy at half-century : An Overview of Stability, Growth & Poverty / Ernest Aryeetey & Ravi Kanbur -- What drives change in Ghana? / Tony Killick -- Ghana's Post-Independence Economic Growth 1960-2000 / Augustin Fosu & Ernest Aryeetey -- Persistent Public Sector Deficits & Macroeconomic Instability in Ghana / Curtis E. Youngblood & David L. Franklin -- Effects of Exchange-Rate Volatility & Changes in Macroeconomic Fundamentals on Economic Growth in Ghana / Stephen Kyereme -- Ghana's Exchange-Rate Reform & Its Impact on Balance of Trade / Frank W. Agbola -- Export Performance & Investment Behaviour of Firms in Ghana / Susanna Wolf & Daniel Bruce Sarpong -- Household Savings in Ghana: Does Policy Matter? / Peter Quartey & Theresa Blankson -- Banking Competition & Efficiency in Ghana / Thierry Buchs & Johan Mathiesen -- Rural & Microfinance Regulation in Ghana : Implications for Development of the Industry / William F. Steel & David O. Andah -- Ghana census-based poverty map : District & Sub-District Level Results / Harold Coulombe -- Budget implementation & poverty reduction in Ghana / Anthony Tsekpo & Charles D. Jebuni -- Does inflation in Ghana hit the poor harder? / Andy McKay & Nii K. Sowa -- Understanding poverty in Ghana : risk & vulnerability / Kojo Appiah-Kubi, Abena Oduro & Bernadin Senadza -- Decentralization & povert reduction / Felix A. Asante & Joseph R.A. Ayee -- Technical efficiency in Ghanaian secondary education / Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong & Elizabeth N. Appiah -- Maternal literacy & numeracy skills & child health in Ghana / Niels-Hugo Blunch -- Health care provision & self-medication in Ghana / G.J.M. van den Boo N.N.N. Nsowah-Nuamah & G.B. Overbosch.
• Sommario/riassunto: An Analysis of the direction in which Ghana's policy makers will need to steer the economy for Ghana to fulfil the promise of its independence over 50 years ago. As Ghana enters its second half-century there is a widespread perception of failure of the economic and political system in delivering improved living standards to the population. As Ghana enters its second half-century there is a widespread perception of failure of the economic and political system in delivering improved living standards to the population. This failure comes despite a solid transition to democracy, despite a recorded recovery from the economic malaise of previous decades and despite a reduction on measured levels of poverty. The contributors in this book analyse the reasons for this failure and sets out an analytical agenda as the basis of the course that the nations' policy makers will have to steer if Ghana is to fulfil the promise of its independence in 1957. ERNEST ARYEETEY is Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social & Economic Research, University of Ghana at Legon; RAVI KANBUR is Professor of Economics at Cornell University. The contributors include: Ernest Aryeetey, Ravi Kanbur, Tony Killick, Augustin Fosu, Charles E. Youngblood, David L. Franklin, Stephen Kyereme, Frank W. Agbola, Susanna Wolf, Daniel Bruce Sarpong, Peter Quartey, Theresa Blankson, Thierry Buchs, Johan Mathiesen, William F. Steel, David O. Andah, Harold Coulombe, Anthony Tsekpo, Charles D. Jebuni, Andy Mckay, Nii K.Sowa, Kojo Appiah-Kubi, Abena Oduro, Bernadin Senadza, Felix A. Asante, Joseph R.A. Ayee, Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Elizabeth N. Appiah, Niels-Hugo Blunch, G.J.M. Van Den Boom, N.N.N. Nsowah-Nuamah, and, G.B. Overbosch.
• Titolo autorizzato: The economy of Ghana
• ISBN: 1-282-62116-5; 9786612621161; 1-84615-629-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911008476103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II