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Ishan Kapur, Jerald A Schiff, Michael T. Hadjimichael, Philippe Szymczak, and Paul Louis Ceriel Hilbers. Ghana: Adjustment and Growth, 1983-91, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed 12/7/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557751829.084

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Summary

The first sub-Saharan African country to pursue broad economic and structural reform - aided by external finance and technical aid - Ghana is an example of adjustment with growth. Ghana's experience, discussed in this paper, illustrates the need for complementary policy actions and the right sequencing and speed of reforms.

Subject: Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Expenditure, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Prices, Revenue administration

Keywords: adjustment effort, bank assets, exchange rate, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Inflation, lessons from Ghana's experience, Middle East, monetary policy reform, OP, policy lesson, reform effort, state enterprise, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa