Poverty Reduction in Ghana—Progress and Challenges : Overview

Ghana over the past two decades has enjoyed steady and robust growth, mainly through a modification in its economic structure: as the economy gradually shifted out of agriculture and into services, the country experienced noticeable advances in productivity. Agriculture's share of value added t...

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Main Authors:	Molini, Vasco, Paci, Pierella
Format:	Brief
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	poverty reduction economic growth labor skills sectoral composition services education shared prosperity inequality gender equity macroeconomic outlook regional inequalities
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22733

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Poverty Reduction in Ghana—Progress and Challenges : Overview

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