The Ghana Strategy Support Program announces a workshop presenting recent research results on agricultural services, decentralization and local governance on Thursday, June 3rd at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel, Accra. The agenda appears below, and can be downloaded here. Links to related workshop papers and paper summaries can be found in the agenda and at the bottom of the […]
President Mills Budget for 2009
The Mills administration presented its financial statement for 2009 dubbed ‘Investing in a better Ghana’ last Thursday. The budget is projected at GH¢9.8 billion, which is structured into the three thematic areas of the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II): Private Sector Competitiveness, Human Resource Development and Good Governance. GH¢3.013 billion (30.8%) is […]
President Constitutes Cabinet
The list of 19 ministers constituting President Mills’ Cabinet is out. Though President Mills created 23 sector ministries, he is limited to only 19 cabinet ministers as stipulated in Article 76 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana. Conspicuously missing in the cabinet is the Information Minister, Ms Zita Okai Kwei. Though there were media […]
Plans for 2009
How can Ghana transform agriculture into a modernized sector that makes substantial contribution to overall economic growth? This year, GSSP is implementing a new workplan organized around this single underlying strategic question. Our research will focus on (1) identifying opportunities for change, (2) analyzing costs and benefits of such development opportunities, (3) identifying constraints to […]
New Background Papers
The Ghana Strategy Support Program has released six new Background Papers: The Role of Cocoa in Ghana’s Future Development looks at the growth and poverty reduction implications of future growth in the country’s cocoa sector. It finds that increasing cocoa production by about 60,000 tons annually is necessary for Ghana to reach its middle-income country […]