世界経済・社会統計 = World development indicators

The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity

Kuznets (Simon) - Modem Economie Growth.

劳动力市场主要指标体系 = Key Indicators of the Labour Market

Part A - Nkrumah and his Immediate Successors, 1960-72 1. Introduction 2. Development, Disequilibrium and State Interventionism 3. The Economic Strategies of Nkrumah and his Successors 4. Domestic Economic Performance in the 1960s 5. External Performance: The Foreign Exchange Constraint and its Causes 6. Planning, Saving and Economic Management 7. Modernization without Growth 8. The Unbalanced Growth of Agriculture and Industry 9. The State as Entrepreneur 10. The State as Controller 11. After Nkrumah: Interpretations of Policies, 1966-72 12. Lessons Part B - The Record since 1972 13. From Implosion to Boom, 1972-2008 14. Structural Change 1970-2008 15. Forces for Change 1983-2008

Development Economics in Action. A Study of Economic Policies in Ghana.

Unemployment is often cited as a measure of the low employment content of Ghana's strong growth performance over the past three decades. The paper presents evidence to suggest that employment growth in Ghana continues to trail economic growth due to high growth of low employment generating sectors against sluggish growth of high labour absorption sectors. A cross-sectional estimation of a probit regression model also indicates a strong effect of demand factors on unemployment, indicating a weak employment generating impact of economic growth. Empirical analysis also confirms higher vulnerability of youth and urban dwellers to unemployment with education and gender explaining unemployment in some instances. Reservation wage is also observed to have an increasing effect of unemployment. The paper recommends policies that promote investment in agriculture and manufacturing which is associated with higher employment elasticity of output. High incidence of unemployment among the youth and secondary school leavers in the most recent period requires targeted intervention including support for entrepreneurial training and start-up capital to attract young school leavers to become ‘creators’ rather than ‘seekers’ of jobs. A downward review of expectations on the part of jobseekers in terms of their reservation wage could help reduce unemployment in Ghana.

Determinants of unemployment in Ghana

Youth unemployment remains a major political and socioeconomic challenge in Africa despite the recent strong growth performance of many African countries The study undertakes an empirical assessme

The youth unemployment challenge in Africa: What are the drivers?:

The Ghanaian economy has been on an upward trajectory over the past three decades, yet a number of challenges bedevil growth, redistribution and sustainability. After 56 years of independence, the need for a formal academic and practitioner forum for engaging minds on the past, present and future state of the economy has been lurking in the background. The birth of the Ghanaian Journal of Economics is a response to this urgent quest, providing a platform for cutting edge research on the Ghanaian economy and similar other economies to inform policy design and implementation. As the maiden issue, this review article seeks to retrace developments in the economy a few steps back to bring readers up to date on current state of research. The review is historical, and the scope is to synthesize the diverse developments in the Ghanaian economy within the confines of a relatively brief article. This article is thus not an exhaustive treatment of the topic, and it does not cover all the esoteric details of the Ghanaian economy. In the end, however, we hope to offer some perspectives on the literature for readers of the journal, investors, managers of the economy, regulators and academics while also providing a roadmap for future research endeavours.

The Ghanaian economy: an overview

Examines the formulation of national policies including trade, exchange rates, monetary, fiscal and labour market policies and how they contribute to growth and employment generation. Covers mainly the period from 1984 to 2004.

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Growth, investment and employment in Ghana

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the causes of unemployment in Ghana from both labour demand and supply perspectives based on most recent cross sectional data set from one nationally representative household survey and a baseline survey for Millennium Development Support. Design/methodology/approach – A logit regression estimation technique is applied to two different household survey data sets of 2008 and 2013 to capture the effect of labour demand and supply on unemployment. Findings – Using education and age as capability variables to represent supply factors, unemployment is found to increase with education, and declines with age, confirming higher unemployment rate among the youth, than the old. The paper also observes strong influence of demand factors on unemployment based on relatively higher incidence of unemployment fulltime jobseekers relative to part-time jobseekers and seekers of formal or wage-employment and self-employment or SMEs compared with those seeking any job. Other ...

William Baah-Boateng

Papers

Determinants of unemployment in Ghana

The youth unemployment challenge in Africa: What are the drivers?:

The Ghanaian economy: an overview

Growth, investment and employment in Ghana

Unemployment in Ghana: a cross sectional analysis from demand and supply perspectives