Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah
Content by Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah
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Project
Tracking multi-sectoral firm performance and responses through the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 is estimated to cut Ghana’s GDP growth by at least 5.3% in 2020 bringing the country’s expected GDP growth to about 1.5%. The Ghanaian economy is highly exposed to global shocks with trade accounting for over 71% of the country’s GDP in 2018. However, very little is known about exactly how the pandemic and the measures to contain the spread of the virus...
15 Jul 2021 | Kofi Asante, Charles Ackah, Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah
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Publication - Policy Brief
The effects of the introduction of a bus rapid transit system on commuter choices in Ghana
1 Oct 2019 | Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah, Patrick Asuming, Henry Telli
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Project
Urban transport systems and commuter mode choices: A field experiment in Ghana
The traffic congestion resulting from too many cars moving to the central business district in the city is a symptom of an inefficient and ineffective public transport system. Such is the experience of Accra, a city with the third highest traffic in Sub-Saharan Africa following Lagos and Luanda. According to a recent World Bank study, transportation and land use concerns,...
21 Sep 2016 | Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah, Patrick Asuming, Henry Telli