Agriculture for Development in Ghana: New Opportunities and Challenges
Author: Clemens Breisinger, Xinshen Diao, James Thurlow, and Ramatu M. Al-Hassan
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages: 56
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Author: Clemens Breisinger, Xinshen Diao, James Thurlow, and Ramatu M. Al-Hassan
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Xinshen Diao
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0198845340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing Ghana as a case study, this work integrates economic and political analysis to explore the challenges and opportunities of Africa's growth and transformation.
Author: Wayo Seini
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mathais Felton
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel Bruce Sarpong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-20
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0429842406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1997, this text is set in a context where Ghana has experienced improvements in aggregate output performance over the past decade (1986-1996) yet agriculture's performance remains sub-optimal. The author focuses on agriculture's fragmentation as attributable to space (storage, transportation and marketing), form (rudimentary production methods in general) and content (stagnent productivity and poor organization of production) and notes that whilst current policies have impinged on the space fragmentation, issues on form and content seem to have been left to the dictates of the market. The author calls for a strategy of government plan in promoting modern technology in agriculture to enhance its linkage to industry for rapid and sustainable economic growth.
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Published: 2004
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents official information on the Agricultural and Rural Development Association of Ghana.
Author: W. Asenso Okyere
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 46
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexander Sarris
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aragie, Emerta
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrowth in Ghana during the last decade has not translated into meaningful benefits for rural households who experienced an increase in poverty in recent years. This reflects, among other factors, the relatively weak performance of the agricultural sector and its general lack of competitiveness. The government has identified agriculture as the backbone of its development strategy and is committed to address the numerous challenges faced by the sector. However, it is likely to encounter fiscal constraints in a postdevelopment assistance era. It is therefore crucial to understand the trade-offs associated with alternative spending strategies. In this study we develop an economywide modeling framework for analyzing returns to public spending in support of agriculture. The model is used to evaluate the effect of compositional shifts in spending given marginal returns to different areas of investment. Our analysis focuses especially on extension services and input subsidies as two important components of the government’s agricultural development strategy. The objective of the study is to advise policymakers on which spending strategy is the most likely to contribute to government’s development goals, such as poverty reduction or economic growth. We find that a doubling of the share of agriculture in total public budget would accelerate agricultural growth to somewhere between 7.6% and 8.6% against the business-as-usual scenario of about 3.5%. The level of growth achieved depends on the types of policies that are favored. In the examples presented here, we show that an input subsidy-oriented spending strategy may yield significant benefits in the short run (1–5 years), and especially in an expansionary fiscal environment, but investments in effective extensive services are more sustainable and rewarding in the medium- to longer-run (6–10 years), especially when public resources are more constrained. These results demonstrate why short-term political goals might result in policy choices that are suboptimal from a longer-term development perspective.