Download or read book Structural Adjustment Programmes and the Urban Informal Sector in Ghana written by S. D. Barwa and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 54 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 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 The Impact of Structural Adjustment on the Population of Africa written by Aderanti Adepoju and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding the Urban Informal Economy in Ghana written by Eben Tawiah Anuwa-Amarh and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Market Trader Activism in the Context of Global Restructuring Processes written by Emmanuel Baffuor Awuah and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Training and Structural Adjustment written by Kenneth King and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Household Welfare During Crisis and Adjustment in Ghana written by Alexander Sarris and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planning African Growth and Development written by Ernest Aryeetey and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Structural Adjustment and Women Informal Sector Traders in Harare Zimbabwe written by Rodreck Mupedziswa and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most attempts to study the informal sector have tended to emphasize uniformity of experiences. Where an effort has been made to develop a more nuanced understanding, the assumption has always been that people move from lower to higher level activities that coincide with increased opportunities for accumulation. This report challenges both notions. Drawing on the experiences of women informal sector traders in Harare, Zimbabwe, and using a longitudinal study approach, the authors document differentiation within the sector amidst generalized decline in working and living conditions. Far from being a site of accumulation, the authors show that the informal sector during the era of adjustment is a site of bare survival in which people work ever longer hours for ever-diminishing incomes on which many competing claims are made within and outside the household.
Download or read book Structural Adjustment and Socio economic Change in Sub Saharan Africa written by Peter Gibbon and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarises the results of work at the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet/Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) on the impact of structural adjustment implementation on the economies, states and societies of sub-Saharan Africa. It consists of two essays and an appendix listing research projects which have been/are being carried out under the auspices of NAI. The first essay raises a series of conceptual and methodological questions in the context of a presentation of some of the main empirical results obtained from extended field work carried out during the course of 1992 and 1993 in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The second essay presents the three main themes - private trading networks and structures, the changing political economy of land, and popular forms of social provisioning - that constitute the core of the second phase of NAI's structural adjustment research and, in so doing, provides a review of aspects of the adjustment literature. This report is, therefore, an attempt both at stock-taking and agenda-building as part of a wider quest for deepening our understanding of the structures and processes of socio-economic change associated with the crisis and adjustment years in contemporary Africa
Download or read book Our Continent Our Future written by P. Thandika Mkandawire and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Download or read book Studies on the Ghanaian Economy Environment informal sector and labour markets written by A. Baah-Nuakoh and published by Woeli Publishing Services. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in a three volume series on the Ghanaian economy, focusing on the environment.
Download or read book Structural Adjustment and Beyond in Sub Saharan Africa written by Rolph van der Hoeven and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloth Edition. Much has been learned about the need to modify structural adjustment policies and to apply them in appropriate ways. This book brings together the theory of researchers and the practical experience of policymakers.
Download or read book Debt Adjustment and Poverty in Developing Countries The impact of debt and adjustment at the household level in developing countries written by David Woodward and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned by the internationally acclaimed Save the Children Fund, this is a study of debt crisis and economic adjustment, and of their implications for poverty in developing countries. It is divided into two volumes. The first volume considers the issues at the national and international levels, covering: problems in the adjustment process; the effectiveness of the current approach to adjustment; and the links between debt, adjustment and the international economic and financial system.
Download or read book Beyond Urban Bias in Africa written by Charles M. Becker and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It devotes attention to the role of rural-to-urban migration and its causes; the authors present theoretical and empirical investigations of neoclassical economic models, non-neoclassical economic models, and demographic cohort models of urbanization and urban wage and employment structures.
Download or read book The Urban Land Development Process and Urban Land Policies in Ghana written by Wordsworth Odame Larbi and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the auspices of the I.M.F and the World Bank, Ghana has undertaken structural adjustment programmes since 1983 to revamp an otherwise collapsing economy. Among the measures taken is the rolling back of the state in many sectors of the economy, in order to allow the private sector to champion the course of development. One sector that seems not to be seriously affected by the adjustments is the urban land sector. State intervention is deeply entrenched in the land development process and strictly regulates the operation of the urban land market. This study provides an analysis of the land development process in Ghana, based on an events-sequence model: Tenure conversion , Land-use conversion , Consumption. It also provides an in-depth analysis of the policy instruments which have been used to intervene in the process since colonial times - twenty-two in all. There is an instrument to intervene in every stage of the process. The study also explores the effects of these instruments on the process and the nature of the urban built up area. Collectively, urban land policies in Ghana have produced mixed outcomes on the development process. State intervention has produced segmented urban land markets which have increased the risks and uncertainties associated with the market. Allied to the segmented markets is the fragmentation of the urban areas. The study recommends that the state should not roll back its intervention until it has resolved the many uncertainties it has helped to create.
