IMF Staff Country Reports

Ghana: Selected Issues

May 21, 2003

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International Monetary Fund. "Ghana: Selected Issues", IMF Staff Country Reports 2003, 134 (2003), accessed April 20, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451814866.002

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This Selected Issues paper reviews trends in GDP and their impact on poverty reduction in Ghana. It highlights structural constraints that are believed to have affected output growth, along with potential sources of increases in output in future years. The paper analyzes trends in the main production sectors, and presents an assessment of the underlying determinants of growth and poverty reduction. It also explores the key elements of the authorities’ strategy to raise GDP per capita growth as set out in the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Domestic debt, Financial institutions, Fiscal policy, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, Public debt

Keywords: Africa, Assets-to-GDP ratio, Bank, Bank number, Capital requirement, Commercial banks, CR, Debt, Debt burden, Debt stock, Domestic debt, Ghana, ISCR, Merchant bank, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, Sub-Saharan Africa

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