IMF Staff Country Reports

Ghana: Selected Issues

February 18, 1999

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper reviews public service reform in Ghana. The paper highlights that a range of public service reform initiatives have been undertaken in Ghana since the early 1980s. The public service in Ghana is composed of centrally managed agencies, ministries, subvented agencies, district assemblies, and state enterprises. The civil service, which covers the centrally managed agencies, ministries, and local government, accounts for only about 20 percent of total public sector employment as a result of the spin-off in the 1980s of the internal revenue, customs, education, and health services as subvented agencies.

Subject: Agricultural commodities, Banking, Commercial banks, Commodities, Financial institutions, Foreign exchange, Nonperforming loans, Real effective exchange rates, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Africa, Agricultural commodities, Bank, Commercial banks, CR, Effective tariff rate, Europe, Ghana, Ghana's competitiveness, Import deflator, ISCR, Nonperforming loans, Rate, Real effective exchange rates, SOE reform program, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tariff rate, Tariffs, Wage bill, West Africa

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    145

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1999/003

  • Stock No:

    1GHAEA0011999

  • ISBN:

    9781451814750

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685