Download or read book Financialisation and Poverty Alleviation in Ghana written by Francis Boateng Frimpong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Frimpong argues that the exponential growth of finance and credit infrastructures in Ghana did not alleviate poverty in the country. It has, however, resulted in rising financial profits, financialising poverty and stagnating the real sector of the economy
Download or read book Financialisation and the Myth of Poverty Alleviation in Ghana written by F. Frimpong and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action written by Joe Amoako-Tuffour and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the inception of the HIPC Initiative, the story of the design and implementation of poverty alleviation strategies has largely been told through the filters of development partners and the Bretton Woods Institutions. Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action examines the efforts in Ghana to reduce poverty and initiate changes that it believes are essential to ensure a prosperous future for its citizens in the 21st century. It chronicles the achievements, pitfalls, and looming challenges of a government, its people, and its external partners in fashioning out and implementing anti-poverty and pro-growth policies. This edited volume, by a group of independent researchers, examines Ghana's experience: what was done, how it was done, what was left undone, the lessons learned, and fills the void in the development literature.
Download or read book Ghana written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana has pursued several programs to accelerate the growth of the economy. In 1995, the government presented “Ghana: Vision 2020,” aimed at making Ghana a middle-income country in 25 years. Vision 2020 focused on human development, economic growth, rural development, urban development, infrastructure development, and an enabling environment. It was followed by the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy. One of the main challenges to economic growth is the unemployment problem. The recent discoveries of oil and gas create tremendous opportunities for stimulating national development.
Download or read book Microfinance Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction in Ghana written by Aaron Alesane and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the role of microfinance in the construction of livelihoods for poverty reduction in the Northern Savannah of Ghana, analysing the current microfinance landscape and financial services in the region. The book analyses the current microfinance landscape and financial services in Ghana. In doing so, it demonstrates the key factors for designing microfinance products and services to ensure greater uptake and outreach enhancing the sustainability of microfinance service providers. Chapters explore the impact of access to microfinance on livelihood diversification, asset accumulation patterns and welfare outcomes. In addition to assessing the role as well as of microfinance as an anti-poverty tool, the book presents new theoretical frameworks and models, including the microfinance livelisystem framework (MFL). This unique framework, which combines and goes beyond existing frameworks, situates the microfinance industry within national and international financial and economic ecosystems and presents the interrelationships between institutions providing services for the construction of livelihoods. Offering new theoretical frameworks and models developed for the microfinance industry with universal application, this book will be of particular use to students and scholars of Development Studies, Development Finance, Poverty and Inequality Studies, Rural Development and Sustainable Finance.
Download or read book Housing as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction in Ghana written by Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghana written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Joint Staff Advisory Note of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) on Ghana reviews the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda (GSGDA) for the period 2010–13. The GSGDA comprises three volumes: the policy framework, the costing framework, and the monitoring and evaluation framework; and follows Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy I and II (GPRS-I and GPRS-II). IMF staff finds the underlying sector development plans compelling and well considered. However, important risks to implementation remain, which could reduce Ghana’s ability to meet the GSGDA objectives.
Download or read book Financial Sector Development Savings Mobilization and Poverty Reduction in Ghana written by Peter Quartey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financial Sector Reform Policies and Poverty Reduction written by Nii Kwaku Sowa and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Structural Adjustment and Mass Poverty in Ghana written by Kwabena Donkor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this volume looks at the rationale for, the implementation of, and the economic and social effect of the World Bank Structural Adjustment Policy (SAP) in Ghana from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. It shifts the focus from a primarily economic evaluation of these programmes and includes issues such as their impact on vulnerable groups within the Ghanaian society and on poverty in general. Therefore, it must be asked whether the ‘ordinary Ghanaian’ has gained anything from any wealth creation in Ghana. The book will be useful for both academic and policy purposes.
Download or read book Rural Financial Intermediation and Poverty Reduction in Ghana written by Michael Danquah and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financial intermediaries in addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the access of rural populations to various types of financial services, and the influence of rural financial intermediation on poverty reduction, in Ghana. By accounting for the potential endogeneity of access to financial services, we show that rural households with access to basic financial services are significantly more likely to be non-poor than those without such access. In order to more sustainably tackle the goal, highlighted in the Sustainable Development Goals, of eliminating global hunger or extreme poverty, the poor must be allowed to obtain meaningful access to financial services through the design of efficient pro-poor financial products.
Download or read book Improving the Targeting of Social Programs in Ghana written by Quentin Wodon and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a diagnostic of the benefit incidence and targeting performance of a large number of social programs in Ghana. Both broad-based programs (such as spending for education and health, and subsidies for food, oil-related products and electricity) as well as targetd programs (such as LEAP, the indigent exemption under the NHIS, school lunches and uniforms, or fertilizer subsidies) are considered. In addition, the study provides tools and recommendations for better targeting of those programs in the future. The tools include new maps and data sets for geographic targeting according to poverty and food security, as well as ways to implement proxy means-testing. The purpose of this introductory chapter is to provide a brief synthesis of the key findings and messages from the study.
Download or read book Ghana written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS I) and the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II) that addressed the critical poverty issues in Ghana. GPRS I is a comprehensive policy document prepared as a precondition for Ghana under the Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative. The main component—human development—targets improvement for Ghana’s population to access basic needs and essential services. A general assessment shows that Ghana has a positive and significantly stabilized macroeconomic environment.
Download or read book The Economy of Ghana written by Mozammel Huq and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book follows a first edition published in 1989, which focused on the severe economic crisis Ghana faced during the late 1970s and the early 1980s. In this second edition, the authors extend the review up to the mid-2010s, covering the entire period since independence, with a special focus on shifts in economic policy, starting with the adoption of the Economic Recovery Programme in 1983. Huq and Tribe provide systematic coverage of Ghanaian economic development since its independence, reviewing the two main modes of development that have been practiced; and offer an updated, rich data bank. By analyzing the wider macroeconomy of Ghana; its individual sectors; money, banking and trade; infrastructure and environmental policies; and Ghana’s poverty, welfare and income distribution, the authors are able to draw vital lessons from the country’s economic development.
Download or read book Ghana s Progress on Reaching Out to the Unbanked Through Financial Inclusion written by Kwadwo Boateng and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial inclusion is a measure of the proportions of individuals and firms that use formal financial services. It serves as a vehicle for poverty alleviation and the driving force for the achievement of the global sustainable development goals (SDGs). The purpose of this study was to find out the progress achieved pertaining to financial inclusion in Ghana. The government of Ghana has for the past years consciously put in place policies and programs to facilitate the promotion of financial inclusion. These policies have resulted to rapid expansion of the banking sector thereby making formal financial services accessible to all. The expansion of bank branches, ATM coverage, increment in Debit/Credit cards ownership and mobile money account holders are indications of achievement in the financial inclusion agenda. An estimated 83.1% of Ghanaians have mobile money account, which has taken savings and other forms of financial services to the doorstep of the ordinary citizen. This has also resulted to a rise in the level of making/receiving payment digitally from 22% in 2014 to 44% in 2017 among rural dwellers. Bank branches coverage per 100,000 adults has grown from 4.8 in 2008 to 7.2 in 2016. Because of the branch visibility, account ownership has also seen a surge especially, in the rural areas where it used to be minimal. Although there has been some success, there is the need for the government to continue with the provision of an enabling environment for faster progress since achievement of financial inclusion enhances stability and faster economic growth.
Download or read book Ghana written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executive Directors believe that the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS) outlines a comprehensive framework for growth and poverty reduction in Ghana. The GPRS II rightly emphasizes private sector-led growth as key to broadening the country’s economic base. The GPRS II will benefit from analyzing the risks to the strategy such as inability to implement planed structural reforms, exogenous shocks and domestic factors, fiduciary weaknesses, and capacity limitations. A comprehensive macroeconomic framework that is consistent with the medium-term fiscal framework and growth assumptions is required.
