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Publication - Policy Brief
How did the 2012-2015 power crisis affect small and medium manufacturing firms in Ghana?
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Blog post
The impact of parliamentary debates on Ghana’s 2016 elections
Both televised and radio debates increase informed and tolerant voter behaviour, boding well for peaceful elections in young democracies. Electoral debates have a long history in democratic politics. The most famous such event was the televised interaction between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960. Today, debates are held in over 60 countries across all regions of the world, from...
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Publication - Project Report
Unequal commutes: Job accessibility & employment in Accra
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Event
Counting the costs: The impact of power crises on manufacturing sector productivity
The workshop is being organised to present the findings of a recent IGC funded study which analysed and measured the extent of productivity losses experienced by SMEs in the manufacturing sector during the 2012-2015 power crisis in Ghana. Among other things, the study finds that firms experienced a 10% loss in productivity in the wake of the power crisis. The aim of...
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Project
Oil price slump: Implications and lessons
The Ministry of Finance of Ghana sought to have a better understanding of the implications of declining crude oil prices on the Ghanaian economy and asked for the support of IGC-Ghana to undertake this study. Oil has become an important product in the Ghanaian economy. The production of oil in 2011 resulted in almost a doubling of Ghana’s GDP growth from 8% in 2010 to...
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Publication - Project Report
Rethinking the oil market in the aftermath of the 2014-16 price slump
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Publication - Project Report
Management and bureaucratic effectiveness: A scientific replication
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Project
Improving tax collection capacity in the developing world: Evidence from local government in Ghana
In most developing countries, tax collection capacity remains inadequately low. Nowhere is the lack of tax collection capacity more apparent than in local governments, which collect a negligible fraction of local income in taxes (Gordon, 2010). As a result, local governments provide inadequately low levels of public goods - such as roads, schools and electricity - which are...
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Blog post
Bad practices hold back small firms in developing countries
Survey of more than 20,000 small firms suggests better business practices are correlated with higher productivity, firm profits, and rates of survival. Management practices in large firms around the world have been systematically measured and reported in a series of papers by Bloom and Van Reenen (2007, 2010) and Bloom et al. (2012). These papers show that better...
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Project
Training for productivity: Relaxing the constraints to management and productivity in the civil service
Ghana’s civil service invests major resources into training its officers, and providing training is its main opportunity to improve officers’ productivity and management skills. But do these trainings effectively teach officers how to be more productive? Do officers actually use the skills they learn once they are back in their organisations? How can the Office of the...