This paper examines the incidence of public health subsidies in Ghana using the Ghana Living Standards Survey. Using a combination of (uniform) benefit incidence analysis and a discrete choice model, our results give a clear evidence of progressivity with consistent ordering: postnatal and...

This paper examines the incidence of public education subsidies in Ghana. Since the late 1990s, Ghana’s government has increasingly recognised human capital as a cornerstone to alleviating poverty and income inequality, causing dramatic increases of government expenditures to the education...

In 2003, the government of Ghana and its development partners agreed on an aid package dubbed the multi-donor budgetary support (MDBS), which would ensure continuous flow of aid to finance the government's poverty related expenditures. This paper examines the MDBS, specifically focusing on how...

The recent literature on aid effectiveness suggests the presence of non-linear effects as well as other country-specific effects in the aid-growth relationship, which may explain the different findings in the empirical literature. We argue that even after correcting for the above, the focus must...

Agriculture plays an important role in terms of employment and its contribution to gross domestic product in many African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural sector as the ma

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate household financial choice and the determinants of financial services in rural and urban households in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach – Data from the Ghana Living Standard Survey 5 (GLSS 5) are used to estimate the participation of a...

Migrant remittances have become a source of external finance whose magnitude exceeds the amount of official development assistance in some developing countries. Balance of payments statistics from the Bank of Ghana indicate the amount of remittances to Ghana exceeds ODA and is a potential force...