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    Economic reform for structural adjustment in Ghana - reality or mirage?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Ghana has been widely cited as a notable front runner in adopting structural adjustment reforms to boost national solvency. Structural adjustment involved curbing public spending by means such as deregulating and privatising formerly State- run services. The programme, started in the 1980s, initially appeared to have a positive impact.
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    Back to basics: education for work on the informal side of the developing marketplace

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 1998
    Self-employment has become a major contributor to national economies yet it remains largely invisible in education and training policies. As job opportunities shrink in the formal sector and youth unemployment skyrockets, self-employment may be the only survival option for many. How are governments responding to these changes?
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    Does reforming mean improving? Consumers speak out on Ghana's health and water services

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Governments tackling economic reforms have to balance pressures from international agencies to curb public spending, with meeting domestic social responsibilities. Most find this adjustment an impossible task. Health and water provision are prime concerns and certainly rate top priority among citizens. Governments make policy but what of people who must live with it? What do consumers want?
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    Where land is gold. Natural resources under pressure around Kumasi, Ghana.

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The city of Kumasi, Ghana, has a population thought to be fast approaching one million. It was once envisaged as a 'Garden City of West Africa', with low-density suburbs surrounding a central hub. Rapid urbanisation, for the most part unchecked by strategic planning considerations, has rendered the present land-use pattern far more complex.
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    Poor outlook, good practice. Assessing urban sanitation from the point of view of the low-income user

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Providing poor urban residents with adequate and appropriate sanitation facilities is a key challenge for the international community. An estimated 500 million people in urban areas have no access to sanitary services, and a much larger proportion use facilities which are hazardous to health or which degrade the environment.
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    Why free markets can still fail: the role of states in industrial development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Demands over the last decade for a shrinking role for the state as provider of public services raise some critical questions. If the state must intervene only selectively, what should the new priorities and policies be? What type of relationship between state and private enterprise is most appropriate in the industrial sector? How can earlier mistakes be avoided?
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    Ghana's governance sea-change: can structural adjustment programmes advance civil service reforms?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How do structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) impact on civil service reforms? The study reported here examined this question in the case of Ghana , one of Africa's pioneer adjusters and often cited as a test case for adjustment programmes supported by the WorldBank/IMF in Africa.
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    Gender in motion. Tackling gender differences in transport needs, access and planning in Ghana

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    A joint University of Ghana / Transport Research Laboratory study based on research in Ghana argues that gender is a missing link in approaches to transport use and planning. Women have more problems gaining access to transport than men, while transportation profiles and needs of men and women often differ.
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    Family planning programmes for the next century

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Family planning programmes arose as a new form of state intervention in the 1960s. In many countries, particularly in Asia, the rationale was an explicit demographic one of reducing fertility and bringing down rates of population growth. Since 1960, fertility in developing countries has fallen from an average of 6.5 births per women to 3.3 births.
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    Is private cocoa sweeter? The state's role in selling Ghana's produce

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Since Ghana became committed to a structural adjustment programme several years ago the onus has fallen on government agencies to take on new and unaccustomed roles in respect of liberalised markets in agricultural products.

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