This paper raises the question of how SME development can be embedded into the process
of structural change. The linkages between various transformations' processes aimed at …

Ghana has by now experienced solid growth for almost thirty years. In the late 1980s and
early 1990s when much of sub-Saharan Africa saw economic decline, Ghana stood out as …

Each country has its own story of how it developed, but at the regional level, some stark
patterns stand out. For Asia, the development path was rather traditional, with the decline of …

This paper seeks to characterize the response of Ghana's business cycle to cocoa and gold
commodity price shocks using a time-varying parameter structural vector autoregressive …

It is commonly assumed that external shocks dominate economic fluctuations in least-
developed countries (LDCs), particularly commodity-exporting LDCs. Nonetheless, the …

In recent decades, Ghana has experienced high economic growth and transformation, which
contributed to the nation achieving the Millennium Development Goal targets on reducing …

Boko Haram is now the deadliest'terrorist'organization operational in the world, by virtue of
the sheer number of people the group have killed. Together with al-Shabaab, the two groups …

Though African economies have recorded significant growth in output, the increase has not
been big enough to lift its teeming population out of poverty, stem rising unemployment and …

This book examines an issue of constant concern in the construction industry, that of
productivity. Using data from Ghana and South Africa, it presents research into the …

The ascendance of the so-called global middle class—characterized as young, ambitious,
highly-credentialed, well-paid, urban-based, professionals in the so-called emerging …