Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action: Perspectives and Lessons from Ghana

This book examines the efforts of Ghana to reduce poverty and initiate changes that it believes are essential to ensure a prosperous future for its citizens in the 21st century. It chronicles the achievements, pitfalls, and looming challenges of a government, its people, and its external partners in fashioning out and implementing anti-poverty and pro-growth policies.

Joe Amoako-Tuffour is associate professor of economics at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and a research associate at the Centre for Policy Analysis in Ghana. Bartholomew Armah is senior policy advisor at the United Nations Economic Commission of Africa in Addis Ababa.