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Poverty Reduction in Ghana

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  • Vasco Molini
  • Pierella Paci

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  • Vasco Molini & Pierella Paci, 2015. "Poverty Reduction in Ghana," World Bank Publications - Reports 22732, The World Bank Group.
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    1. Eric Gaisie, 2017. "Living standards in pre-independent Ghana: evidence from household budgets," HHB Working Papers Series 7, The Historical Household Budgets Project.
    2. UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa & Ayodele Odusola & Radhika Lal & Rogers Dhilwayo & Isiyaka Sabo & James Neuhaus, "undated". "Drivers of Income Inequality in Burkina Faso, Ghana and the United Republic of Tanzania: A comparative analysis," UNDP Africa Policy Notes 2017-15, United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Africa.
    3. Stephen D. Younger & Eric Osei-Assibey & Felix Oppong, 2015. "Fiscal Incidence in Ghana," Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Working Paper Series 1335, Tulane University, Department of Economics.
    4. Jose Cuesta & Stephen Devereux & Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai & Jaideep Gupte & Luigi Peter Ragno & Keetie Roelen & Rachel Sabates‐Wheeler & Tayllor Spadafora, 2021. "Urban social assistance: Evidence, challenges and the way forward, with application to Ghana," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 39(3), pages 360-380, May.
    5. Martin Evans, 2018. "Simulating policy options for universal child allowances in Ghana," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2018-145, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    6. Clementi, Fabio & Molini, Vasco & Schettino, Francesco, 2018. "All that Glitters is not Gold: Polarization Amid Poverty Reduction in Ghana," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 275-291.
    7. Martin Evans, 2018. "Simulating policy options for universal child allowances in Ghana," WIDER Working Paper Series 145, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    8. Odusola, Ayodele & Lal, Radhika & Dhliwayo, Rogers & Sabo, Isiyaka & Neuhaus, James, 2017. "Drivers of Income Inequality in Burkina Faso, Ghana and the United Republic of Tanzania: A comparative analysis," UNDP Africa Reports 270551, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
    9. Nxumalo, Mpumelelo Author-Name: Raju, Dhushyanth, "undated". "Structural Transformation and Labor Market Performance in Ghana," Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides 154568, The World Bank.
    10. Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai & Giles Mohan, 2019. "The politics of bureaucratic ‘pockets of effectiveness’ - Insights from Ghana’s Ministry of Finance," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series esid-119-19, GDI, The University of Manchester.
    11. Stephen D. Younger & Eric Osei-Assibey & Felix Oppong, 2017. "Fiscal Incidence in Ghana," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 47-66, November.
    12. Clementi,F. & Fabiani,M. & Molini,V., 2018. "The devil is in the details : growth, polarization, and poverty reduction in Africa in the past two decades," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8494, The World Bank.
    13. Stephen D. Younger & Flora Myamba & Kenneth Mdadila, 2016. "Fiscal Incidence in Tanzania," Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Working Paper Series 1336, Tulane University, Department of Economics.
    14. F. Clementi & A. L. Dabalen & V. Molini & F. Schettino, 2020. "We forgot the middle class! Inequality underestimation in a changing Sub-Saharan Africa," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 18(1), pages 45-70, March.
    15. Tomomi Tanaka, 2019. "Human Capital Development in Ghana," World Bank Publications - Reports 34181, The World Bank Group.
    16. Abdul‐Rahim Mohammed, 2022. "Discretion on the frontlines of the implementation of the Ghana School Feeding Programme: Street‐Level Bureaucrats adapting to austerity in northern Ghana," Public Administration & Development, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 42(1), pages 33-43, February.
    17. Cascade Tuholske & Kwaw Andam & Jordan Blekking & Tom Evans & Kelly Caylor, 2020. "Comparing measures of urban food security in Accra, Ghana," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 12(2), pages 417-431, April.
    18. Gill,Indermit S. & Revenga,Ana L. & Zeballos,Christian, 2016. "Grow, invest, insure : a game plan to end extreme poverty by 2030," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7892, The World Bank.
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    20. Kortei, Nii Korley & Koryo-Dabrah, A & Esua-Amoafo, P & Yarfi, C & Nyasordzi J & Essuman, EK & Tettey, CO & Nartey, EB & Awude, E & Akonor, PT, 2022. "Household food security determinants and nutritional status of inhabitants of a peri-urban community: A case study in the Volta region of Ghana," African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND), African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND), vol. 22(05).
    21. World Bank, 2016. "Poverty Reduction in Nigeria in the Last Decade," World Bank Publications - Reports 25825, The World Bank Group.

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