Globalization, trade and poverty in Ghana / edited by Charles Ackah and Ernest Aryeetey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ackah, Charles.

Aryeetey, Ernest, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Ghana.

Poverty.

Commerce.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Ghana.

Globalization--Social aspects--Ghana.

Globalization.

Globalization--Economic aspects--Ghana.

Ghana--Commerce.

Ghana--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Ghana--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

vi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : International Development Research Centre ; Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2012.

Summary:

Citing a paucity of empirical evidence on the poverty and distributional impacts of trade policy reform in Ghana as the main motivation for this volume, the editors (both of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research at the U. of Ghana) present eleven papers that combine theory and econometric analysis in an effort to assess linkages between globalization, trade, and poverty (including gendered aspects). Specific topics examined include manufacturing employment and wage effects of trade liberalization; the influence of education on trade liberalization impacts on household welfare; trade liberalization and manufacturing firm productivity; the impact of elimination of trade taxes on poverty and income distribution; food prices, tax reforms, and consumer welfare under trade liberalization; impacts on tariff revenues; and impacts on cash cropping, gender, and household welfare; Distributed in the US by Stylus. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction and overview / Charles Ackah and Ernest Aryeetey

An overview of trade policies and developments in Ghana / Albert Laryea and Sarah Akuoni

Trends in growth, employment and poverty in Ghana / Charles Ackah and William Baah-Boateng

Wage and employment effects of trade liberalization : the case of Ghanaian manufacturing / Charles Ackah, Ernest Aryeetey and Kwadwo Opoku

The effects of trade liberalization on the return to education in Ghana / Charles Ackah, Oliver Morrissey and Simon Appleton

Trade, trade policy and total factor productivity : the case of Ghanaian manufacturing firms / Charles Ackah, Ernest Aryeetey and Oliver Morrissey

The impact of the elimination of trade taxes on poverty and income distribution in Ghana / Vijay Bhasin

Food prices, tax reforms and consumer welfare in Ghana during the 1990s / Charles Ackah and Simon Appleton

The effect of import liberalization on import tariff yield in Ghana / William Gabriel Brafu-Insaidoo and Camara Kwasi Obeng

Cash cropping, gender and household welfare : evidence from Ghana / Charles Ackah and Ernest Aryeetey

The transmission of world commodity prices to domestic markets : household welfare effects in Ghana / Charles Ackah ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9988647360

9789988647360

OCLC:

809834602