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Jamie Rudman and Rein Houben from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, National Tuberculosis Control Programme manager Yaw Adusi Poku, and Saleema Razvi and Brad Wong from Copenhagen Consensus studied these three important interventions to deal with the disease burden: active case...

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The Ghana Essential Health Intervention Program (GEHIP) is not primarily about more medicine or medical machinery. It is about ensuring that Ghana’s rural health system works better by facilitating an effective organization. It is about developing health leadership, and generating information for...

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Summing up 2020 the Ghana Priorities project has successfully researched some of the best interventions for the country by comparing social and economic costs and benefits. Our work to disseminate the results of the research to decision-makers will continue in 2021 encouraged by the Daily Graphic's...

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Every two minutes, a woman dies of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Most of these deaths are preventable — and the world has been working on a solution for decades. The problem is the funds dedicated to solving the problem never go far enough...

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One of the high value-for-money propositions which is placed into the top-ten list for the Ghana Priorities project is to maintain the rural emergency transport system. Ghana’s emergency health services system is mainly informal in both urban and rural areas. The majority of patients who are...

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Recently, an eminent panel of seven distinguished economists met in Accra to evaluate more than 1000 pages of research across all sectors of government. The panel includes Finance Minister Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, Planning Minister Prof. George Gyan-Baffour, former Finance Minister Prof. Kwesi Botchwey...

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Ghana's economic growth has been rapid since the start of the new millennium, reaching 14% in 2011, but economic performance has been relatively lower since then, particularly from 2013-2016. Important factors for the slowing of development are the huge infrastructural deficit and the limited...

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The Econmoist published a great write-up on our Ghana Priorities project research. Ghana's National Development Planning Commission (ndpc) and the Copenhagen Consensus, an international think-tank, have teamed up to create a new initiative called the Ghana Priorities. It hopes to steer the...

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Digitising public administration at the local level improves efficiency and productivity. Faster and simpler revenue collection, especially, boosts transparency and increases municipalities’ autonomy by enhancing their ability to generate more local income in a systematic manner. Ghana has a legal...

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Expanding access to electricity can increase productivity and even improve health, which makes it a vital component of development in rural areas. However, electricity access in rural Ghana was only 67% in 2018, and the northern parts of the country are in a notably worse situation compared to...

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