Botswana's welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa … contract - to those of its neighbours in Southern Africa. It is the result of the specific character of poverty in Botswana and … the enduring, but not unchallenged, political dominance of the conservatively paternalist Botswana Democratic Party. …

policy. This paper investigates linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and …

The objective of this research is to assess the extent to which export processing zones in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania …

, Ghana was able to surmount the limitations of its weak and underresourced public health system by leveraging 'residual …

and epidemiology. The research assesses Ghana's effectiveness in governing the COVID-19 pandemic contrary to apocalyptic … predictions. This paper critiques Ghana's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of Foucault's biopolitics. The main … result of this study showed that Ghana survived the pandemic because of effective policies, not providence. The study also …

used in Ghana, have become useful in providing quantitative measures of welfare distribution that enable a better … understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these measures, we know that inequality has been rising in Ghana despite … high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …

services. Using firm census data from 2014 for Ghana, we measure the rates of informality along extensive (unregistered firms …

inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely … statistics with those produced by ACEIR in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. The underlying country-specific income and expenditure …

considered an important determinant of growth in developing countries. However, Ghana has one of the poorest savings performances … in the world. There are many reasons for the low savings rates in Ghana. In view of Ghana's aspiration to wean herself … important determinant savings in Ghana. We employ time series analyses using data from 1980-2020 to capture the effects of the …

Ghana's experience since the early 1990s indicates that external aid can significantly impact a country';s democratic … transition. External democracy assistance has been a crucial, positive factor in Ghana's steady evolution into an electoral … democracy over the past two decades. Continuing gaps in the quality of Ghana's democracy confirms, however, that even sustained …