Globalization, trade, and poverty in Ghana
By: edited by Charles Ackah and Ernest Aryeetey
Publisher: International Development Research Centre; Sub-Saharan Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ottawa; Accra, Ghana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9789988647360
Subjects: Economic policy; Commerce; Globalization; Poverty; Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview / Charles Ackah and Ernest Aryeetey; title: An overview of trade policies and developments in Ghana / Albert Laryea and Sarah Akuoni; title: Trends in growth, employment and poverty in Ghana / Charles Ackah and William Baah-Boateng; title: Wage and employment effects of trade liberalization : the case of Ghanaian manufacturing / Charles Ackah, Ernest Aryeetey and Kwadwo Opoku; title: The effects of trade liberalization on the return to education in Ghana / Charles Ackah, Oliver Morrissey and Simon Appleton; title: Trade, trade policy and total factor productivity : the case of Ghanaian manufacturing firms / Charles Ackah, Ernest Aryeetey and Oliver Morrissey; title: The impact of the elimination of trade taxes on poverty and income distribution in Ghana / Vijay Bhasin; title: Food prices, tax reforms and consumer welfare in Ghana during the 1990s / Charles Ackah and Simon Appleton; title: The effect of import liberalization on import tariff yield in Ghana / William Gabriel Brafu-Insaidoo and Camara Kwasi Obeng; title: Cash cropping, gender and household welfare : evidence from Ghana / Charles Ackah and Ernest Aryeetey; title: The transmission of world commodity prices to domestic markets : household welfare effects in Ghana / Charles Ackah ... [et al.].