By Danielle Resnick On March 15, Ghana celebrated the creation of 38 new metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies (MMDA), increasing the total number from 216 to 254. Since 2000, the number of districts has more than doubled with new MMDAs also created in 2004, 2008, and 2012. As in each prior case, the government justified […]
Public Finance and Decentralization Data Released
GSSP has compiled a dataset on fiscal decentralization and public investment in Ghana that was recently released for distribution. The dataset includes district-level observations that cover the 110 districts that were in existence in Ghana during the period 1994 to 2004. These data are secondary, and they were compiled and organized from both electronic and […]
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