Bridging the North South Divide in Ghana

Since 1983 Ghana has been in a phase of increased inter-regional divergence with significant concentration of economic activity in cities, especially in the Accra metropolitan area. In the north, the more recent years have been marked by significant human development progress, while some of the huma...

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Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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spelling okr-10986-90532021-04-23T14:02:44Z Bridging the North South Divide in Ghana World Bank World Development Report 2006 Since 1983 Ghana has been in a phase of increased inter-regional divergence with significant concentration of economic activity in cities, especially in the Accra metropolitan area. In the north, the more recent years have been marked by significant human development progress, while some of the human development gap between north and south has been closed. Creating a more dynamic regional economy for Ghana will require increasing security, deepening democracy, improving economic institutions and investment, faster implementation of trade liberalization and reducing barriers to factor mobility. 2012-06-26T15:37:16Z 2012-06-26T15:37:16Z 2004 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9053 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa
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description Since 1983 Ghana has been in a phase of increased inter-regional divergence with significant concentration of economic activity in cities, especially in the Accra metropolitan area. In the north, the more recent years have been marked by significant human development progress, while some of the human development gap between north and south has been closed. Creating a more dynamic regional economy for Ghana will require increasing security, deepening democracy, improving economic institutions and investment, faster implementation of trade liberalization and reducing barriers to factor mobility.
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title Bridging the North South Divide in Ghana
title_short Bridging the North South Divide in Ghana
title_full Bridging the North South Divide in Ghana
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