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Since 2000, Ghana’s development has been a real success story. The country has witnessed sustained economic growth, with real GDP per capita increasing by 3.5% per year on average and extreme poverty levels falling by almost 80% according to the Ghana Statistical Service. However, in recent years...

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Infant and maternal mortality are important indicators of a nation’s wellbeing and the overall quality of its health system. Over the last three decades, Ghana has achieved much improved primary care for mothers and children, but mortality rates are still significantly higher than the targets of...

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Healthy mothers and children are the foundation of a thriving nation and the first 1,000 days of a child’s life are the most critical for their future health. Nutrition in the pre-natal stage and early childhood is fundamental to guarantee overall health and well-being. It brings multiple benefits...

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IT was wonderful to see great buy-in to the Copenhagen Consensus’ new policy prioritization project “Ghana Priorities” in Accra last week. Hundreds of sector experts have attended our week-long roundtable discussions on issues such as health, education, gender, environment, poverty, agriculture and...

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News Ghana has published an overview and recap of the sector expert events which took place in Accra last week. The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has held a 3-days round-table discussion with both International and local researchers to provide the necessary advice on how to...

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The Daily Graphic has published an article overviewing the sector expert roundtables which took place in Accra last week. Briefing the Daily Graphic after the first round of discussions with representatives from the health sector, the President of CCC, Mr Bjorn Lomborg, said the whole idea was to...

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Ghana News has published an overview of the work to be done by the Ghana Priorities project. The Copenhagen Consensus Center is leading the national drive aimed at ensuring that Government agencies, ministries, and departments, in Ghana prioritize much better and spend their monies smartly. The...

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Ghana News has published a recap of the sector-expert roundtables which took place in Accra last week. You can read the full article here . The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) and the Copenhagen Consensus Centre (CCC), a United States non-profit think tank, have underscored the need...

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Ghana Priorities will expand its research agenda at the request of the Ministry of Health to analyze the costs and benefits of interventions within the following three areas: (1) Public health emergency - (Early detection and treatment of diseases of public health importance) (2) Child and Newborn...

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Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and Shireen Vakil heads the Policy and Advocacy unit of the Tata Trusts discuss the India Consensus research on Nutrition. The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme is one of the world’s largest programmes for early childhood...

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