Ghana

African Economic Outlook - Country Studies: Ghana

African Economic Outlook - 2001/2002

The African Economic Outlook project aims to provide valuable information on economic and social development progress in Africa, as well as on short-term prospects (up to 2002 for the 2001 report). It combines the knowledge and expertise accumula...

Ghana:Long Term Growth, Atrophy, and Recovery - A report for the OECD Development Centre project Emerging Africa

Ghana's independence in March 1957 was celebrated with great flourish. "Free at last" Kwame Nkrumah, the country's leader, proclaimed. Yes, Ghana was free to follow an independent political course, and free to experiment with an independent ...

Emerging Africa: The Case of Ghana

The growth record of Ghana has been one of unevenness, as Table I.1 and Figure I.1 clearly indicate. With a reasonably high GDP growth in the 1950s and early 1960s, the Ghanaian economy began to experience a slowdown in GDP growth as of 1964. Gr...