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• Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, September 2-4, 2008, Accra, Ghana (OECD-DAC Secretariat, The World Bank, and The Government of Ghana)
  The official website for the 3rd High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, organized by the OECD-Development Cooperation Directorate and The World Bank. The Forum brings together ministers, heads of development agencies and civil society organizations from more than 100 countries. The web site features the full programme and all documents, including:
  -- Accra Agenda for Action, September 4, 2008 PDF format
  -- Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, March 2, 2005 PDF format
  -- See also: Terraviva. (Online): Inter-Press News Service (IPS) coverage and news commentary on the forum.
  
  
• African Development Bank Group on Ghana (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
  
  
• 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."
  • AERC Home Page
  • "The impact of migrant remittances on household welfare in Ghana" by Peter Quartey (2006)
  • "Female labour force participation in Ghana: the effects of education" by Harry A. Sackey (2005)
  • "Dynamic inter-links among exchange rate, price level and terms of trade...Ghana" by Vijay K. Bhasin (2004)
  • "The cost of aid tying to Ghana" by Barfour Osei (2004)
  • "How tied aid affects the cost of aid-funded projects in Ghana" by Barfour Osei (2003).
  • "Asset pricing and information efficiency of the Ghana Stock Market" by K.A. Osei (2002).
  • "External aid inflows and the real excahnge rate in Ghana" by H.A. Sackey (2001).
  • "Determinants of private investment behaviour" by Yaw Asante (2000).
  • "Quality of jobs or mass employment" by Kwabia Boateng (1999)
  • "Ghana: monetary targeting and economic development" by Cletus K. Dordunoo, Alex Donkor (1998).
  • "Analysis of the factors affecting the development of an emerging capital market...Ghana Stock Market" by Kofi A. Osei (1998)
  • "Tax reform and revenue productivity in Ghana" by N.K. Kusi (1998)
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Business News from Ghana
  • Business guide. (Online) -- Accra, Ghana: Western Publications, 2009-
    The online version of a Ghanaian business newspaper, with an archive of articles since June 2009.
    
    
  • 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)
  
  
• Centre for the Study of African Economies (Oxford, UK)
  • Global Poverty Research Group: "Ghana Cocoa Farmers Survey 2004: Report to the Ghana Cocoa Board" (March 2006) by Francis Teal, Andrew Zeitlin, & Haruna Maamah. 26 pages in PDF format
    --See also: Ghana Cocoa Board below
    
    
  • Working Papers Series -- Abstracts & Full Texts
    Note: See all Full texts and abstracts (requiring Adobe Acrobat)
    
    --"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" by Abigail 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.
    -- "Why can Mauritius export manufactures and Ghana not?" by Francis Teal (1999). Working paper ; 1999.10.
    -- The Ghanaian manufacturing sector, 1991-1995.." by Francis Teal (1998). Working paper ; 98.17.
    -- "Real wages and the demand for skilled and unskilled labour in Ghana's manufacturing sector, 1991-1995" by Francis Teal (1997). Working paper ; 97.10.
    -- "Does 'getting the prices right' work?....Ghana" by Francis Teal (1995). Working paper ; 95.19.
    -- "Real wages and the demand for labour in Ghana's manufacturing sector" by Francis Teal (1995). Working paper ; 95.07.
    -- "The missing factor: entrepreneurial networks...Ghana" by Abigail M. Barr (1995). Working paper ; 95.11.
  • CSAE Home Page
  
  
• Ghana Cocoa Board (Accra)
  
  
• Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (New Tafo, Akim, Ghana)
  
  
• Columbia University: International Studio--Disaster Resilient Accra, Ghana (2003) (New York)
  The site features the full text reports on a range of urban planning issues in Accra. "The studio... was a component of Columbia University’s Earth Institute 21st Century Cities program. Additional collaborations were established with the University of Ghana and its Centre for Social Policy Studies. The studio was comprised of eleven urban planning graduate students, two of which are pursuing joint degrees in public health, another who is pursuing a joint degree in urban affairs, along with one civil engineering graduate student, with assistance from students and faculty from the University of Ghana."
  
  
• 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.
  • Business News
  • Knowledge Bank
  
  
• Demographic and Health Surveys: Ghana Indicators, Datasets, and Reports (1988-2007) (Calverton, Maryland)
  
  
• Development Gateway Country Overview on Ghana (Washington, DC)
  A clearinghouse of links to a wide variety of organizational websites with economic data. Originally founded by The World Bank, the DG has been an "independent", donor-funded organization since 2001.
  
  
• Directory of Development Organizations: Ghana (2008) (Bert Wesselink, The Netherlands?) PDF format.
  
  
• ELDIS Country Profiles (Electronic Development and Environment Information System, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
  Search for Ghana: 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)
  • Regional Office for Africa, Accra, Ghana
    -- See especially: RAF Publications and Documents
    
    
  • FAO Aquastat Programme -- Ghana, 2005 A 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.
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Government of the Republic of Ghana -- Ministries (Accra)
  • Government of Ghana (General)
    
    
  • Communications
  • Energy
  • Finance and Economic Planning
    Ghana Budget Statement 2008 -and- Reports (2004-)
    -- See also: National Development Planning Commission
  • Forestry Commission of Ghana
  • Health
  • Lands, Forestry and Mines Mining Portal of Ghana
  • Public Sector Reform
  • Transportation
  • Women and Children's Affairs
  
  
• 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 (UNU Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, Accra, Ghana; via München, Germany)
  
  
• 2nd Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine & Indigenous Knowledge, March 2008 Report. (Africa First, LLC, Saint Paul, Minnesota) 94 pages in PDF format
  --Call for Papers: 3rd Global Summit, Kumasi, Ghana, August 25-31, 2009
  --See also: 1st Global Summit, Accra, Ghana, March 14-18, 2006---Declaration
  
  
• The International Monetary Fund: Ghana Country Info (Washington, DC)
  Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.
  
  
• 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: Review of 5-Year Programme of Work of the Health Sector in Ghana (2002-2006) By R. Dubbeldam et al. (KIT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  
  
• MBendi AfroPaedia: Ghana (MBendi Information Services, South Africa)
  A basic profile of Ghana's economy and investment climate; plus links.
  
  
• 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 perspectives
    Reports 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."
  
  
• United Nations Agencies on Ghana -- Economy
  • United Nations Development Programme on Ghana
    -- Towards a More Inclusive Society--Human Development Report Indicators for Ghana 2007 PDF format
    -- Other HDRs on Ghana, 2004-2007 -and- Breaking the HIV/AIDS Chain: A Human Development Challenge (2004)
    
    
  • UN Economic Commission for Africa: "Ghana: the danger of fiscal exuberance." (2003) Chapter 5 in Economic report on Africa 2003: accelerating the pace of development. (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) 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)
    News, statistics, and activities of UN-Habitat.
    --See also: Urban profile reports and other publications (2004-2009): national, Accra
    
    
  • United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources, Accra, Ghana (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 Center for Development Information and Evaluation (CDIE): "Food aid in Ghana: an elusive road to self-reliance (1997)." (PDF File) Impact evaluation ; no. 3.
    
    
  • United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
    -- US-Ghana Trade Balance, 1992--
    -- US International Trade Statistics: Ghana, 1996-- (Search)
    
    
  • United States. Department of State
    -- Country Commercial Guides for Ghana: 2000 (in PDF) | 1999
    -- Economic Policy and Trade Practices Reports on Ghana: 1998 | 1997 | 1996
    
    
  • United States. Commercial Service: Recent documents on Ghana economy (International Trade Administration)
  
  
• University of Ghana -- Centre for Social Policy Studies (Legon, Ghana)
  
  
• University of Wisconsin Land Tenure Center Publications on Ghana (Madison, Wisconsin)
  • "Land law in Ghana: contradiction between Anglo-American and customary conceptions of tenure and practices," by Lennox Kwame Agbosu (March 2000) Working paper ; no. 33. (Abstract in HTML, full text in PDF)
  • "Land markets and legal contradictions in the peri-urban area of Accra, Ghana...," by R. Kasim Kasanga [et al.] (May 1996) Research paper ; no. 127. (Abstract in HTML, full text in PDF)
  • Full list on Africa & the Middle East (Most titles are only available in print -- to be ordered.)
  
  
• The World Bank on Ghana (Washington, DC)
  • Country brief and data on Ghana, 1999- (includes projects document search)
  • "Employment, labor markets, and poverty in Ghana: a study of changes during economic decline and recovery (1997) By S. Canagarajah and H. Coulombe. Policy research working paper. -- Washington, DC : The Bank, 1997. (PDF format)
  • Ghana: is growth sustainable (December 1995) OED Précis ; 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.