Tackling the Last Hurdles of Poverty Entrenchment: An Investigation of Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17

Hai-Anh Dang (), Dhushyanth Raju, Tomomi Tanaka () and Kseniya Abanokova ()
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No 16738, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17, addressing the lack of actual panel data by constructing synthetic panel data from repeated cross-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more upward mobility than downward mobility. Poor households are also more likely to have enjoyed stronger consumption expenditure growth. Our findings suggest that factors such as education attainment, female household headship, urban residence, and non-agricultural work are positively correlated with poverty reduction. Compared to all other correlates, education attainment appears to be most effective in pushing households out of poverty and keeping them from falling into poverty.

Keywords: Ghana; household surveys; synthetic panel; pro-poor growth; poverty dynamics; poverty; sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C15 D31 I31 O10 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 67 pages
Date: 2024-01
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Published - published as 'Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17: An Investigation Using Synthetic Panels' in: Scientific African, 2024, 25, e02282

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