Acknowledgements: This document should be seen as a revised version of the one produced in 2000 in the context of the construction of the 2000 Ghana Poverty Profile. The revisions mainly consist of the inclusion of GLSS 5-specific issues as well as an update of the different statistical tables. Those revisions were done by Harold Coulombe. The authors are grateful to Dr Grace Bediako (GSS), Dr ...

The fact of growth of inequality in distribution of income both inside the national economies and between the countries is confirmed by many empirical studies. In particular, these are annual reports of the World Bank, UNIDO and European Commission. The growth of inequality in distribution of income causes social tension inside the countries and promotes conflicts between the countries. Entrepr...

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