Economic Growth in Ghana : Determinants and Prospect

Economic Growth in Ghana : Determinants and Prospect

This paper employs a simple cross-country panel framework to assess the determinants of growth in Ghana's gross domestic product over the past four decades. A set of standard covariates is used to explain growth rates. Natural resource variabl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Raggl, Anna K.
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
AGGREGATE MEASURE
AVERAGE GROWTH
AVERAGE GROWTH RATE
AVERAGE SHARE
CAPITAL VARIABLE
COAL
COMPETITIVENESS
CONVERGENCE EFFECTS
COUNTRY CHARACTERISTICS
COUNTRY EFFECTS
COUNTRY SIZE
COUNTRY SPECIFIC
CROSS COUNTRY
CROSS-COUNTRY PANEL
DATA AVAILABILITY
DEMOCRACY
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
DOMESTIC PRODUCTS
DRIVERS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC LITERATURE
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
ECONOMICS
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
ERROR TERM
EXPLANATORY POWER
EXPLANATORY VARIABLES
EXPORTS
FIXED EFFECTS
FORECASTS
GDP
GDP PER CAPITA
GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROWTH
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT PER CAPITA
GROWTH MODELS
GROWTH PERFORMANCE
GROWTH POTENTIAL
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
GROWTH REGRESSION
GROWTH REGRESSIONS
HUMAN CAPITAL
INCOME
INCOME GROWTH
INCOME LEVEL
INCOME LEVELS
INCREASE GROWTH
INFLATION
INFLATION RATES
INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS
INTERNATIONAL OPENNESS
LINEAR RELATIONSHIP
LONG RUN
NATURAL CAPITAL
NATURAL LOGARITHM
NATURAL RESOURCES
NEGATIVE IMPACT
OIL
OIL PRICES
OIL PRODUCTION
OUTPUT GROWTH
PANEL FRAMEWORK
PER CAPITA GROWTH
PER CAPITA GROWTH RATE
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
POLICY MAKERS
POLICY MEASURES
POLICY RESEARCH
POLITICAL DEMOCRACY
POLITICAL STABILITY
POPULATION RESEARCH
POSITIVE CORRELATION
POSITIVE IMPACT
POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP
POVERTY RATES
POVERTY REDUCTION
PREDICTED GROWTH
PUBLIC SERVICE
REAL GDP
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
RELATIVE IMPORTANCE
RENTS
SERVANTS
SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
TIMBER
TRADE OPENNESS
WEALTH
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/18832579/economic-growth-ghana-determinants-prospect
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16828

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/18832579/economic-growth-ghana-determinants-prospect
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16828

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