In 1996 Ghana privatized its incumbent telecommunications firm by selling 30 percent of Ghana Telecom to Telekom …. The sustainability of competition is unclear. The government ended Telekom Malaysia's management of Ghana Telecom and has …

guidelines-a tiered approach to regulation and prudential supervision. The model focuses on risk-taking activities of … and assessment of the tiered approach, focusing on the experience of Ghana and the Philippines. The two countries both … gives particular attention to the thresholds at which intermediation activities become subject to prudential regulation and …

This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on the rural labor market outcomes for women. The existing … literature emphasizes two mechanisms through which land restrictions can affect the economic outcomes: the collateral value of … land, and (in) security of property rights. Analysis of this paper focuses on an alternative mechanism where land …

Creating productive jobs is one of the greatest challenges in Ghana. This paper looks at job creation and its …

Ghana is an exceptional case in the Sub-Saharan Africa landscape. Together with a handful of other countries, Ghana … are available. In addition, different from many other countries in the continent, Ghana's rapid growth translated into …

This papers investigates to what extent internal migration contributes to improving households' welfare in Ghana. Using … the most recent and nationally representative household survey (Ghana Living Standards Survey 2012/13), the estimates … economic activity. However, the migration process in Ghana has important downsides, such as the brain drain and disruption of …

in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …

mining is a catalyst for proto-urbanization in rural Ghana. Using cross-sectional data, the analysis finds that locations …

This paper analyses the evolution of fiscal and monetary variables in Ghana, from the discovery of oil in 2007 through … framework. The suggested causes include the politics of Ghana's dominant two-party system. Finally, the paper discusses what … Ghana could have done differently to avoid the various damaging effects associated with the oil discovery. It does not aim …