Ghana: Economic Development, Environment, & Health
- Documents from The Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, September 2-4, 2008, Accra, Ghana (OECD DCD-DAC, Paris, France)The website offers documents from the 3rd High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, organized by the OECD-Development Cooperation Directorate and The World Bank. The Forum brought together ministers, heads of development agencies and civil society organizations from more than 100 countries.
-- Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and Accra Agenda for Action (2008)
- AITI-KACE: Advanced Information Technology Institute--Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (Accra, Ghana)"Our dynamic team works to stimulate the growth of the ICT Sector in ECOWAS. Established in 2003, through a partnership between the Government of Ghana and the Government of India, this state-of the-art facility provides an ideal environment for innovation, teaching and learning as well as practical research on the application of ICT4D in Africa."
- "Africa Climate Week," March 18-22, 2019, Accra, Ghana
- United Nations Development Programme (New York): "Ghana to kick start Africa Climate Week," March 14, 2019
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: "African Policymakers Highlight Opportunities of National Climate Plans, March 22, 2019 ; "Delegates Gather to Boost Ambitious Climate Action in Africa," March 18, 2019.
--See also: UNFCCC (via Columbia University Libraries)
- African Centre for Economic Transformation (Accra, Ghana)"We focus on the 'how-to' of policy reform, going beyond the traditional role of a think tank to ensure our research is accessed by the right people at the right time to accelerate the transformation agenda."
--See especially: African Transformation Report (2014, 2017, and 2021)
--Plus: Country Reports and Multi-Country Studies - African Development Bank Group on Ghana (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
- Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
- See also: African Economic Conference, 28-30 October 2013, Johannesburg, South Africa: "Remittances and Poverty in Ghana" (November 2009) By K. Gyimah-Brimpong & E. Asiedu 37 pages in PDF format
- African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) on Ghana (Nairobi, Kenya)
- The website offers general information on the research and publications programmes of AERC, with abstracts in HTML and downloadable reports in PDF format on several African countries, including Ghana. "The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), established in July 1988, is a public not-for-profit organization devoted to advanced policy research and training."
- --Search for "Ghana" in Publications, and see selected research titles below:
- "Export Efficiency and Diversification in Ghana." (May 2022)
- "Health Insurance and the Economic Impact of Negative Health Outcomes in Ghana." (August 2021)
- "Mobile Money, Income and Welfare of Smallholder Farmers in Selected Districts in Ghana." (August 2019) Master's thesis
- "Essays on Child Labour and Schooling." (April 2018) Ph.D. thesis
- "Estimating the Size and Trends in the Informal Economy in Ghana." (December 2018)
- "Trade LIberalization Financing and its Impact on Poverty and Income Distribution in Ghana." (January 2011)
- "The Determinants of School Attendance and Attainment in Ghana: A Gender Perspective." (December 2007)
- "Female Labour Force Participation in Ghana: The Effects of Education." (September 2005)
- "The Cost of Aid Tying in Ghana." (October 2004)
- "How Tied Aid Affects the Cost of Aid-Funded Projects in Ghana." (November 2003)
- "Ghana: The Burden of Debt Service Payment Under Structural Adjustment." (March 1995)
---Selected older titles:
- The website offers general information on the research and publications programmes of AERC, with abstracts in HTML and downloadable reports in PDF format on several African countries, including Ghana. "The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), established in July 1988, is a public not-for-profit organization devoted to advanced policy research and training."
- AMMREN--African Media and Malaria Research Network (Accra, Ghana)"...formed in November 2006, and it is a network of African journalists and scientists working together to reduce the burden of malaria, which is endemic in most parts of Africa and the number one killer of children under five."
- African Women's Development Fund (Accra, Ghana)"In the year 2000, three women, Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Joana Foster and Hilda Tadria created a philanthropic organisation focused on making measurable change in African women’s lives...Since 2001 AWDF has worked to build relationships with, and mobilise resources for over 1,300 women’s organisations in 45 countries Africa and the Middle East."
--See also: African Women's Development Fund Repository - Association of Ghana Industries (Accra, Ghana)General details about the organization and contact information.
- Banks of Ghana on the Web
- Bank of Ghana (Accra)
- Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd. (Accra)
- Ghana HomePage Links: Business, Finance, and Banks (Francis Kojo Awuku Akoto et al., Finland)
- Ghana Budget Statement -- via Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning below
- Ghana National Bureau of Statistics (See "Ghana Statistical Services" below)
- Business News from Ghana
- African Eye Report (Accra, Ghana)"[Since 2014]...AfricanEyeReport.com offers extensive coverage of Information Communication Technology, economy, business, and banking and finance on the African continent."
- Ghana Business News (Legon, Accra, Ghana)A business and general news portal site for Ghana, with an archive of news stories since December 2008.
- See also: Ghana--Online News (via Columbia University Libraries)
- African Eye Report (Accra, Ghana)
- Centre for the Study of African Economies (Oxford, UK)
- "Ghana Cocoa Farmers Survey 2004: Report to the Ghana Cocoa Board" (March 2006) by Francis Teal, Andrew Zeitlin, & Haruna Maamah. --via Academia.edu ; 26 pages in PDF format
--See also: Ghana Cocoa Board below
- Working Papers Series -- All Full TextsSelected papers on Ghana:-- "Job flexibility and occupational selection...Ghana.(2016). Working paper ; 2016-34.-- "Firm size, employment, and value-added...why Ghana needs its 1 per cent." (2016). Working paper ; 2016-07.-- "When no bad deed goes punished...Ghana." (2015). Working paper ; 2015-08.-- "Firm survival and change in Ghana, 2003-2013." (2015). Working paper ; 2015-06.
-- "Early life circumstance and mental health in Ghana." (2014). Working paper ; 2014-03.
-- "Learning by doing: skills and jobs in urban Ghana." (2012). Working paper ; 2012-15.
-- "Borders that divide: education and religion in Ghana and Togo...(2011). Working paper; 2011-21.-- "When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing?...Ghana. (2011). Working paper ; 2011-11.-- "Why do cooperatives fail?...Ghanaian Cocoa Producers." (2010). Working paper; 2010-18.
-- "Jobs, skills, incomes in Ghana...(2010). Working paper ; 2010-01.-- "Referral and job performance...Ghana Colonial Army." (2009). Working paper ; 2009-10.
--"Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?" by Simon Baptist and Francis Teal (2008). Working paper ; 2008-10.
--"Does doing an apprenticeship pay off? Evidence from Ghana" by Courtney Monk, Justin Sandefur, & Francis Teal (2008). Working paper ; 2008-08.
-- "Education, incomes, poverty and inequality in Ghana in the 1990s" by Francis Teal (2001). Working paper ; 2001-21.
-- "Managerial risk attitudes and firm performance in Ghanaian manufacturing: an empirical analysis based on experimental data" by Catherine Pattillo and Mans Söderbom (2000). Working paper ; 00.17.
-- "Ethnicity and wage determination in Ghana" byAbigail Barr and Abena Oduro (2000). Working paper ; 2000.9.
-- "Private sector wages and poverty in Ghana:1988-1998" by Francis Teal (2000). Working paper ; 2000.6.
- CSAE Home Page
- "Ghana Cocoa Farmers Survey 2004: Report to the Ghana Cocoa Board" (March 2006) by Francis Teal, Andrew Zeitlin, & Haruna Maamah. --via Academia.edu ; 26 pages in PDF format
- Center for Strategic and International Studies: "A Role for Social Protection Investments to Support Food and Nutrition Security: Lessons From Ghana." (February 2018) -- Washington, DC: CSIS, 2018. 36 pages in PDF format
--See also: Ghana Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection's LEAP Programme below
- Cities Alliance on Ghana (Brussels, Belgium)
- Search for all news and reports on "Ghana"
- Urban Governance and Services in Ghana. (2017)
- Housing as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction in Ghana. (2010) Published by UN Habitat.
- Search for all news and reports on "Ghana"
- Coalition for Urban Transitions: Cities as a Strategic Resource: Guideline for Ghana’s National Urban Policy Revision. December 2019 (London, UK)
54 pages in PDF format
- Ghana Cocoa Board (Accra)
- Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (New Tafo, Akim, Ghana)
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Accra, Ghana)--See especially: CSIR Publications
- Databank Group (Databank Financial Services, Accra, Ghana)
- A commercial site which offers selected current "market data" for Ghana: economic and trade indicators, commodity and stock prices--especially from Ghana Stock Exchange, and market overviews; plus: selected business news and recent economic analysis reports. Subscription required to view the most current market analysis or sectoral and company research for Ghana and West Africa.
- Databank Research : annual, daily, and quarterly reports (2013 to present)
- Jubilee Debt Campaign (London, UK): "The Fall and Rise of Ghana's Debt: How a New Debt Trap Has Been Set. (October 2016) 32 pages in PDF format
--See also: The IMF on Ghana below - Demographic and Health Surveys: DHS Final reports on Ghana, 1988-2022 (Calverton, Maryland)Download entire reports in PDF format. Plus, Ghana in the general list of: Datasets (1988-2014)--See also: Ghana Statistical Services below
- EITI--Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative : Ghana (Oslo, Norway)"Historically Ghana is a mining country, with substantial reserves it is the second largest gold producer in Africa...ninth largest reserves of diamonds...ninth largest producer of diamonds...Oil production started in 2011, and as of 2013 oil revenues surpassed mining receipts. EITI reporting has highlighted gaps in the way the extractive sector is managed..."
--See especially: EITI reports and other documents - ELDIS Country Profile on Ghana (Electronic Development and Environment Information System, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)This service compiles and indexes links to online full texts (requiring Adobe Acrobat PDF), related web sites, and print publications in the IDS library on a variety of subjects pertaining to Ghana, especially in the fields of agricultural economics, trade, health, governance, and education.
- Food and Agriculture Organization on Ghana (Rome, Italy)
- FAO Country Profile on Ghana
- Regional Office for Africa, Accra, Ghana
-- See especially: RAF Publications and Documents - FAO News: "Accra meeting discussed operationalizing the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition," October 18, 2016
- FAO Aquastat Programme -- Ghana, 2005A profile on Ghana's water resources. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
- FAO Document Repository -- Ghana
- FAO Regional Fishery Bodies: Committee for Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture of Africa (FAO Regional Office for Africa. Accra, Ghana)This very small website offers the 1971 RFB basic documents, RFB meeting schedules, and contact information.
- FAO Country Profile on Ghana
- Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (Kumasi, Ghana ; via Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA)The website provides general and contact information on research and activities of the institute [founded in 1963]. "The Mission of the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana is to conduct high quality, user-focused research that generates scientific knowledge and appropriate technologies which enhance the sustainable development, conservation and efficient utilization of Ghana's forest resources; and also to disseminate the information for the improvement of the social, economic and environmental well-being of the Ghanaian people."
- Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) (Accra, Ghana)The website features news on activities, conferences, and programmes. "[Founded in 2002, hosted by the FAO Regional Office for Africa] FARA is...an umbrella organization bringing together and forming coalitions of major stakeholders in agricultural research and development in Africa."
--See especially: FARA Publications - France. Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie -- Marchés extérieurs: Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, et Ghana (Ambassade de France, Service économique; Paris)
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Ghana Office (Accra)
- FES in Ghana
- Employment Generation in Africa: Learning from Good Practices. Ghana Case Study. (November 2021)
- Civil Societies' Input for Reform of Social Protection in Ghana (2021) 19 pages in PDF format
- Employment Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic in Ghana (2021) 17 pages in PDF format
- Minimum Wage Fixing in Ghana (June 2018) 58 pages in PDF format
- "Ghanaian Panel on Economic Development." (November 2017) 227 pages in PDF format
- "Labour migration in Ghana: an analysis of emigration, return migration, and reintegration." (December 2015) By Kennedy Atong Achakoma, Franklin Owusu Ansah, and Phyllis Agyemang. 167 pages in PDF format
- All FES Publications on Ghana
- Friends of the Nation (Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana)Established in 1993, FoN is a registered socio-environmental advocacy, non-profit, non-governmental development-oriented organization."
--See especially: Reports on Natural Resource Management and Community Development - Government of the Republic of Ghana -- Ministries (Accra)
- Government of Ghana (General)
- Communications
- Employment and Labour Relations
- Energy
- Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation
- Environmental Protection Agency of Ghana
- Finance
- Fisheries and Aquaculture Development
- Gender, Children, and Social Protection
--See also: LEAP--Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty
- Ghana Statistical Services
- 2021 Population and Housing Census--Provisional Results
- Ghana Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey: Quarterly Labour Force Report. (August 2022)
- 2015 Ghana Labour Force Report
- 2021 Population and Housing Census--Provisional Results
- Health
--See also: Ghana Health Service on COVID-19 - Lands and Natural Resources
--See also: Forestry Commission of Ghana - Local Government and Rural Development
- Roads and Highways
- Trade and Industry
- Transport
- Works and Housing
- Government of Ghana (General)
- Ghana Stock Exchange Data Centre (Accra, Ghana)General information, listed companies, regulations, and current or recent market news.
- GLOWA Volta: Global Change and the Hydrological Cycle (2008) (Koblenz, Germany)
- The International Monetary Fund: Ghana Country Info (Washington, DC)Summaries, full length reports, and recent news.
- International Organization for Migration: Migration in Ghana: A Country Profile 2019. -- Geneva, Switzerland: IOM, 2019. 152 pages in PDF format
- Ghana and The Internet (via Columbia University Libraries)
- Invest in Ghana: Focus Kumasi (March 2008) -- New York: Millennium Cities Initiative of The Earth Institute, Columbia University, c2008. 72 pages in PDF format
- Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (Accra)
- ISODEC--Integrated Social Development Centre Sponsored by Oxfam America (Accra, Ghana)This web site features selected news and advocacy on Ghanaian government budgetary and other economic issues; includes background news on selected Ghanaian civil society groups.
- Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen=Royal Tropical Institute on Ghana
- Demystifying the Cocoa Sector in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. (2018)
- Review of 5-Year Programme of Work of the Health Sector in Ghana (2002-2006). By R. Dubbeldam et al. (KIT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Ghana National Development Planning Commission (Accra)
- Overseas Development Institute, London, UK
- "ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues."
- Search for Ghana at ODI
- Multi-agency partnerships for technical change in West African agriculture (MAPS)Reports and summaries on projects in Nigeria, Mali, and Ghana.
- Natural resource perspectivesReports and summaries on projects in southern Africa, West Africa, South Africa, Ghana, and outside of Africa.
- Policy Project: Ghana (Futures Group, Washington, DC)A summary of assistance activities in HIV/AIDS policies and other reproductive health policies in Ghana, with downloadable reports in PDF format.
- Report of the International Fact-Finding Mission on Water Sector Reform in Ghana, August 2002. PDF format (via "Sustainable Africa" Internet Channel, AllAfrica Foundation, AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
- Science & Technology -- Internet & Telecommunications in Ghana (Francis Kojo Awuku Akoto, Finland; Rob Bellaart, GhanaWeb.Com)This web page offers very brief statistics and related links. See also, the Ghana Home Page
- Third World Network Africa (Accra, Ghana)The site features news analysis, some downloadable reports, and related links.
"TWN Africa is a Non Governmental Organisation which carries out Research and Advocacy on issues of social and economic policy that advances the needs and interests of peoples of African and other third world countries (especially marginalized social groups), a fair distribution of world's resources, and forms of development which are sustainable and fulfil human needs." - Union for African Population Studies (Accra, Ghana)
- 'UAPS is a non-profit, Pan-African, scientific organization, first launched in 1984 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to improve research capacity and promote evidence-based population policies and programmes in Africa.' In 1987, the headquarters moved to Dakar, Senegal, and then moved again in 2006 to Accra, Ghana.
- Journal of African population studies. (Online) -- Accra, Ghana: UAPS, 1988--
- UAPS News
- 'UAPS is a non-profit, Pan-African, scientific organization, first launched in 1984 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to improve research capacity and promote evidence-based population policies and programmes in Africa.' In 1987, the headquarters moved to Dakar, Senegal, and then moved again in 2006 to Accra, Ghana.
- United Nations Agencies on Ghana -- Economy
- United Nations Development Programme in Ghana (Accra)
- UNFCCC--United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Bonn, Germany)
Ghana's Second National Communication to the UNFCCC (September 2011) -- Accra: Environmental Protection Agency and Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology, 2011. 168 pages in PDF format - UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: Search for Ghana Country Indicators, Policy Developments, and Overview (New York)
- United Nations Habitat on Ghana (Nairobi, Kenya)
- United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources, Accra, Ghana (2008) (via Columbia University Libraries)
- United Nations University WIDER--World Institute for Development Economics Research (via Columbia University Libraries)See Ghana-related reports in the list.
- United States Agencies on Ghana's Economy (Washington, DC)
- US Agency for International Development on Ghana
- USAID on Ghana -- Country Information
- USAID Global Health Initiative on Ghana
- Development Experience Clearinghouse (General)Search the entire database for downloadable (in PDF) reports on projects and studies on Ghana.
- United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
- US Commercial Guide for Ghana (2018) --via Export.gov
- United States. Department of Commerce. International Trade Administration: Search by Country--Trade & Industry Analysis
- United States. Energy Information Administration: Ghana
- US Agency for International Development on Ghana
- University of Ghana : Centre for Social Policy Studies (Legon, Ghana)
- Voice Ghana -- Voice of People with Disability Ghana (Accra, Ghana)"The organization was set up in July 2002 as an NGO managed for and by people with disabilities. We promote access to quality education for children with disabilities and work as a capacity building organization for all disability self-help groups and disabled people’s organisations at the grassroots level in Ghana."
See especially: News -and- Reports - WASCAL--West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (Accra, Ghana)The website offers information about research projects and lists various publications, with some excerpts.
"...a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany."
--See especially: Publications
- The World Bank on Ghana (Washington, DC)
- Country brief and data on Ghana (includes projects document search)
- Ghana Economic Update - Preserving the Future: Rising to the Youth Employment Challenge. (June 2022)
- Connecting the Dots : People, Jobs, and Social Services in Urban Ghana. (January 2021)
- Health financing in Ghana (2012)
- Improving the targeting of social programs (2012)
- Remittances and poverty in Ghana (February 2006) by Richard H. Adams, Jr. World Bank policy research working paper. -- Washington, DC: The Bank, 2006. (43 pages in PDF format)
- Evolution of poverty and welfare in Ghana in the 1990s: achievements and challenges (October 2003) Africa region working paper series; no. 61. -- Washington, DC : The Bank, 2003. (87 pages in PDF format)
- Assessment of Ghanaian organizations involved in the delivery of monitoring and evaluation training (May 2001) OED Précis working paper -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 2001.
- Ghana: is growth sustainable (December 1995) OED Pr.écis ; no. 99 -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1995.
- Designing technical assistance projects: lessons from Ghana and Uganda (September 1995) OED Précis ; no. 95. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1995.
- Turning an agency around: lessons from Ghana (May 1995) OED Précis ; no 89. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1995.
- World Health Organization on Ghana (Geneva, Switzerland; Accra, Ghana)--See also: Ghana WHO Country Office