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Project
Harnessing technology to exorcise ghosts
Ghana, as a developing country, has always been strapped of resources to promote growth and development. Revenue mobilised has never been sufficient for taking care of recurrent expenditure, and therefore the country has had to rely heavily on external grants and loans to support development projects. A closer look at the budget of the Government of Ghana shows that much...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Measuring power outages in Ghana using satellite imagery
Ghana recently experienced an extreme power crisis, which peaked in 2015, leading to substantial economic, social, and political problems. Despite the widespread impacts of the crisis, there is no reliable data on the variation in power supply quality across Ghana over this period. Our project estimates geographic variation in power outages using the Power Supply...
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Publication - Policy Brief
The effects of the introduction of a bus rapid transit system on commuter choices in Ghana
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Publication - Policy Brief
Improving local government tax collection capacity: Evidence from Ghana
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Publication - Policy Brief
The vicious nexus of non-payment of tariffs and blackouts: Evidence from Ghana
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Event
Artisanal and small scale mining sector: Challenges and opportunities
The International Growth Centre (IGC) is hosting a regional event on the challenges and opportunities for the artisanal and small scale mining sector at 8:30am on Tuesday, 24th September 2019 at the Sierra Lighthouse, Hotel, Aberdeen, Freetown, Sierra Leone . Artisanal and Small-scale mining continues to provide jobs and livelihood support to millions of people in many...
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Publication - Working Paper
From bilateral trade to centralised markets: A search model for commodity exchanges in Africa
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Publication - Working Paper
Political favoritism and the targeting of power outages
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Project
The political economy of power outages in Ghana: New measures and analysis
Access to energy is crucial for economic growth. While global attention has focused heavily on increasing access, an under-recognised constraint in many countries is poor reliability of electricity supply. This project introduces a new measure of power supply reliability and outages based upon temporal variations in nighttime light output. This work builds upon ongoing...
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Data Item
Data: Gold mining and living standards in Ghanaian households
The development of modern sectors has long been linked to the displacement of traditional agriculture. The economic literature has focused on explanations associated with reallocation of inputs but has neglected other possible mechanisms, such as the negative externalities of environmental pollution on production. To explore this issue, we examine the case of modern gold...