Ghana

Selected EarthTrends Data:

Variable	Value
Gini Index{1}	41
Population living on less than $1/day{2}	45%
Population living on less than $2/day{3}	79%
Poverty Gap $1/day{4}	17%
Poverty Gap $2/day{5}	41%
Access to improved sanitation	18%
Access to an improved water source	75%
Literacy rate, all adults	58%
Life expectancy, both sexes	58 years

Definitions and Sources

{1} Survey year: 1998-9. Based on expenditure. {2} Survey year: 1998-9. Based on expenditure. {3} Survey year: 1998-9. Based on expenditure. {4} Survey year: 1998-9. Based on expenditure. {5} Survey year: 1998-9. Based on expenditure.

Poverty resources:

• Decentralization and Poverty Reduction (Document)
• Evolution of poverty and welfare in Ghana in the 1990s : Achievements and challenges (Document)
• Ghana - Land Administration Project (Document)
• Ghana - Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and joint assessment (Document)
• Ghana living standards survey 1998/99 (Document)
• Ghana’s Community-Based Rural Development Project (Project)
• Livelihoods of the Poor in Ghana: A Contextual Review of Ghana-wide Definitions and Trends of Poverty and the Poor with Those of Peri-Urban Kumasi (Document)
• Operationalising Pro-poor Growth: A Country Case Study on Ghana (Document)
• USAID Ghana Office (Project)
• World Bank Ghana Program (Project)

Poverty datasets:

• Ghana: Percent of Children Underweight - 1998
• Poverty in Ghana - 1998

Citations from the World Resources Report:

• Land Law in Ghana: Contradiction between Anglo-American and Customary Conceptions of Tenure and Practices
• Participation in Artisanal Fisheries Management for Improved Livelihoods in West Africa: a Synthesis of Interviews and Cases from Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea and Ghana
• Religious Beliefs and Environmental Protection: The Malshegu Sacred Grove in Northern Ghana

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World Bank PovertyNet Library: (opens in a new window)

• http://povlibrary.worldbank.org/library/country/66

Development Gateway: (opens in a new window)

• http://www.developmentgateway.org/countryprofile/?country_iso=GH