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In January 2021, the GSS published a report called the 'Multi-dimensional Poverty-Ghana'. In this report, a decline in the incidence of poverty and also extreme poverty was found. This made Ghana the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to "achieve the MDGs target of halving extreme poverty in 2006 way ahead of the global deadline of 2015". [22]
The NDPC, as a Ghanaian state agency, was established solely to work closely with every President of the Fourth republic of Ghana.The commission is mandated to make provisions for coordinated program of Economic and Social Development policies, which the President of Ghana under the constitution is required to submit to parliament within two years.
The decision follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert different currencies into a common, comparable unit and account for price differences across countries. The new extreme poverty line of $2.15 per person per day is based on 2017 PPPs. [7]
With the economic program "Ghana: Vision 2020", Ghana intends to achieve its goals of accelerated economic growth and improved quality of life for all its citizens, by reducing poverty through private investment, rapid and aggressive industrialization, and direct and aggressive poverty-alleviation efforts. [79]
Region based education inequality stems in part from region based poverty. For example, the Northern region in Ghana is the poorest, and also the most educationally deprived, with 61.6% of its population having received less than four years of education. [11] Gender inequality is also more stark when interplaying with other factors such as ...
It was reported in 2020 that "The share of the world’s workers living in extreme poverty fell by half over the last decade: from 14.3 per cent in 2010 to 6.9 per cent in 2019". [17] A study published in September 2020 found that extreme poverty had increased by 7 percent in just a few months, after a steady decrease for the last 20 years.
Ivor Agyeman-Duah was born in Kumasi, Ghana, in 1966, and was named after his father's friend, the British historian Ivor Wilks. [1]Agyeman-Duah holds an MA degree from the University of Wales, an MSc in Economic Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London [2] and an MSc in the History of International Relations from the London School of Economics ...
The Ghana Living Standards Survey Report of the Fifth Round revealed that about 96.4% of women reported that they, or their partners, were using modern forms of contraception. [ 34 ] This statistic has significant importance in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS , which affected 120,000 women in Ghana in 2012 (of the 200,000 people living with the ...