Globalization, trade, and poverty in Ghana. /
edited by Charles Ackah and Ernest Aryeetey.
- Accra, Ghana, International Development Research Centre: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2012.
- vi, 250 p.: ill.; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.].