The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Dec., 2005), pp. 641-664 (24 pages) The World Bank and IMF launched the Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative in the context of longstanding ...

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has ranked the Nabdam district of the Upper East Region as the area with the highest multidimensional poverty in the country. Latest scorecards on multidimensional ...

A team of entrepreneurs in Ghana are turning discarded banana and plantain stems into a more sustainable sanitary pad to fight period poverty. According to the World Bank, half a billion women and ...

There is a high incidence of poverty among Ghanaian pensioners, a survey conducted by the Africa Centre for Retirement ...

Opinion - Child marriage remains one of Ghana's persistent but under-discussed public health and social problems. It occurs when a girl or boy marries before the age of 18, often driven by poverty, ...

The Chinese Embassy in Ghana has embarked on an initiative of sharing with Ghanaians China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Model which lifted 800 million Chinese from extreme poverty. The initiative ...

The Chief of Social Policy and Inclusion at United Nations International Children Emergency Funds (UNICEF) Ghana, Ms Pauliina Sarvilahti, has praised the government for its commitment to the ...

Oxfam and our partners are helping young people to push their elected representatives to improve education, reduce youth unemployment, and help farmers make a decent living. Could this bring ina new ...

Poverty continues to ensnare Northern Ghana as 941,706 residents remained impoverished between 2014 and 2019, despite reduction in national poverty rate, a study has found. The national poverty rate ...

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This paper examines Ghana’s Fourth Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Requests for Waiver of Performance Criteria and for Extension of the Commitment Period. Most end-August ...