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Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana: A micro-level analysisTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | The financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financi...
Rural financial intermediation Poverty reduction WelfareBlog
An African in Africa: New perspectives on travelling for research
Working for an international organisation presents a host of challenges, given the vast nature of tasks that one must surmount in a fast paced and changing environment...
Zambia Ghana AfricaLecture
Stata training for Domestic savings country authorsCapacity development on using Stata software is provided to the country authors of The domestic savings shortfall in developing countries – what can be done about it? project. The training is provided virtually by UNU-WIDER Research Associate...
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Press Release: New UN study reveals limited impact of tax and social protection policies in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
Africa SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulation Policy Brief
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Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in GhanaWe estimate the efficiency of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana, and investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs...
Fiscal decentralization Efficiency Local governmentWorking Paper
The welfare effects of financial inclusion in Ghana: An exploration based on a multidimensional measure of financial inclusionUsing a nationally representative household survey data set from Ghana, this paper provides empirical evidence regarding the role of financial inclusion or financial exclusion in household welfare...
Financial inclusion Household welfare GhanaJournal Article
Do gender wage differences within households influence women's empowerment and welfare?: Evidence from GhanaUsing household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques – IV LASSO – that allows for the treatment of unconfoundedness in the selection of observables and unobservabl...
Wage gap Households Women's empowermentWorking Paper
Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in GhanaIn this paper, we estimate the efficiency of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana, and investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs...
Fiscal decentralization Efficiency Local governmentIn the media
Report on the impact of COVID-19 to Ghana’s labour market hits headlinesA new report from the Transforming informal work and livelihoods project has caught the attention of policy makers and media in Ghana. Researchers from UNU-WIDER and the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of...
COVID-19 Informal sector GhanaSeminar
Seminar with the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics on the labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdownsSimone Schotte presented the recently published WIDER Working Paper on The labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns: Eevidence from Ghana for the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics seminar series. The research, part of the project on...
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Sub-national institutional performance across Ghana’s districts and regions – variation and causes
Ghana Institutional performance State capacity Working Paper
The financial inclusion agenda: Examining the role of conventional banks in deepening access to formal creditUsing a unique district-level panel dataset, we investigate the effect of banking system penetration on financial inclusion in Ghana...
Banking Financial inclusion Access to creditBackground Note
Review of sub-national institutional performance in GhanaIntroduction The literature on the concept, measurement, causes, and correlates of sub-national institutional governance is not new. From the seminal work of Putnam et al. (1993) to recent attempts by Iddawela et al...
Decentralized governance Decentralization GovernanceWorkshop
Third training on GHAMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for GhanaThe third training on the use of GHAMOD , a tax-benefit microsimulation programme for Ghana, introduced participants to the latest version of the programme. Altogether 15 professionals and researchers working on tax and social protection issues in...