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Contents :Overview:global economic developments and Ghana's economic performance: Introduction -- Global economic performance: World employment trends -- Economic performance in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Economic performance in Ghana: The inflation picture -- Detailed sectoral performance -- Fiscal developments -- Monetary and financial developments -- External sector developments -- Fiscal development: Introduction -- Fiscal policy measures -- Trends in fiscal outcomes -- Trends in government revenue: General trends -- Sources of revenue -- Development in oil and gas revenue: Distribution of 2013 petroleum receipts -- Utilization of 2013 annual budget funding amount -- Tax and non-tax revenue: Direct taxes -- Indirect taxes -- International trade taxes: Non-tax revenue (excluding grants) -- Trends in government payments -- Composition of payments: Discretionary and statutory spending -- Discretionary payment -- Statutory payments -- Recurrent and capital payment -- Targets versus out-turn for government revenue and expenditure -- Ghana's debt situation -- Outlook -- Monetary and financial developments: Introduction -- Overview of monetary and financial policy outcomes in 2013 -- Trends in money supply growth -- Trends in inflation -- Trends in interest rates -- Foreign exchange market developments -- Assets and liabilities of Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) -- Trends in domestic credit -- Financial deepening -- Inflows of private remittances -- Non-bank financial institutions -- Rural community banks (RCBs) -- Ghana Stock Exchange -- Outlook -- International trade and payments: Introduction -- Trade sector performance: Balance of Payments -- Openness to trade in commodities -- Key export commodities: cocoa --Minerals -- Timber and timber products -- Non-traditional exports -- Direction of trade: Origin of Import -- Destination of export -- Exchange rate developments -- External debt and capital flows -- Trade sector initiatives in 2013 -- Medium-term outlook -- Agriculture sector: Introduction -- Policy initiatives and implementation in 2013 -- Food security and emergency preparedness programme -- Increased growth in income programme -- Marketing of agricultural produce product programme -- Management of land and environmental programme -- Performance of the agriculture sector in 2013 -- Contribution to the Ghanaian economy -- Performance of agricultural sub-sectors -- Food crops: Cocoa production -- Agriculture input sale outlets and volume of imports of agrochemical -- Food price -- Agriculture sector expenditure -- Expenditure for 2012 and 2013 -- Outlook for 2014 -- Industrial sector: Introduction -- Overview of the industrial sector's recent performance: Mining and quarrying sub-sector -- Gas production -- Production and export of minerals other than oil and gas -- Manufacturing sub-sector -- Electricity sub-sector: Overall performance of the sub-sector -- Investment in the electricity sector in 2013 -- Production and consumption of electricity energy -- Water and sewerage sub-sector -- Construction sub-sector -- Outlook for the industrial sector -- References -- Services sector: Introduction -- Developments in the services sector:Education -- Gross enrollment ratio -- Net enrollment ratio -- Gross admission ratio -- Net admission ratio -- Completion ratio -- Total number of schools available -- Special interventions in the educational sector in 2013 -- The Health sector -- Economic services: Transportation services -- Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services -- Tourism -- Outlook -- References -- Doing business in Ghana: Introduction -- Review of the World Bank doing business report -- Analysis of the business environment from the perspectives of Business Associations -- Starting a business --Getting credits -- Business operations -- Trading across borders -- Enforcing contracts -- Outlook.