Integration of indirect taxation to GHAMOD

Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rattenhuber, Pia; Vanheukelom, Toon

doi:10.35188/unu-wider/wtn/2021-12

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“…Unfortunately, the panel household survey used in the vulnerability to poverty analysis does not have information on the recipients of the LEAP programme. Therefore, to assess the impact of the programme, we follow the main methodologies used in the literature to estimate eligibility (Adu-Ababio et al, 2018;Harris et al, 2018).…”

Section: Identifying Eligibility To Leapmentioning

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Understanding Vulnerability to Poverty, COVID-19’s Effects, and Implications for Social Protection: Insights from Ghana

Awuni,

Malerba,

Never

2023

Progress in Development Studies

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The Coronavirus pandemic has created new vulnerabilities and deepened existing ones. In Ghana, the overall headcount poverty decline has disguised a large group of vulnerable households now threatened with falling back into poverty given the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article draws on new household panel data to analyse transient poverty, the drivers of vulnerability before and since the COVID-19 pandemic and provides implications for social protection. Using poverty transition matrices, we first measure poverty episodes which help to not only track the movements in and out of poverty but also to identify and categorize households into distinctive groups. We then apply logistic regression to examine the determinants of vulnerability to poverty before evaluating COVID-19 vulnerabilities in the context of social protection in Ghana. We find that a large group of struggling households exist between the poor and the stable middle classes that have been overlooked by cash transfer programmes. We characterize this group and show that current vulnerability measurements and social protection design need adjustments. We also find that poverty and vulnerability to it is no longer a rural phenomenon as the transient poor since the COVID-19 pandemic are mostly located in urban areas and largely not covered by current social protection systems. Both vertical and horizontal expansion of social policy is required to reach these new groups and new locations. For reducing poverty and limiting vulnerability in developing country contexts, our findings imply that (a) new measurements and targeting may be required, (b) vulnerable informal groups in urban areas need to be included, and (c) new types of social protection for struggling households are required to prevent their falling back into poverty in the event of aggregate shocks.

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Understanding Vulnerability to Poverty, COVID-19’s Effects, and Implications for Social Protection: Insights from Ghana

Awuni,

Malerba,

Never

2023

Progress in Development Studies

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“…Aspect of human life including socioeconomic 9,10 and psychosocial well‐being 11–13 as well as health systems 14–16 among others has been negatively impacted by the pandemic. The case of Ghana is no different from the rest of the world in terms of the negative impact 17–21 . During the pandemic, lock down of major cities was enacted in the country, schools, businesses, and places of worships were closed, and restrictions of markets places were imposed.…”

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Prevalence of common adverse events experienced following COVID‐19 vaccination and its associated factors in Ghana: Cross‐sectional study design

Boi-Dsane

Dzudzor

Alhassan

et al. 2022

Health Science Reports

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Background and Aims The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) (COVID‐19) pandemic devasted the general life of people and various human activities across the globe, and Ghana is of no exception. This led to development of vaccines within record time to combat morbidity and mortality associated with the virus. In Ghana, COVID‐19 vaccines were introduced in addition to existing COVID‐19 protocols. However, the vaccines have adverse events among those who received them. In this study, we determined the prevalence of some common adverse events of the COVID‐19 vaccines and its associated sociodemographic factors in Ghana. Methods An online snowball cross‐sectional survey was conducted between April and June 2021 among 240 people who had taken at least one dose of any of the COVID‐19 vaccines approved in Ghana. The penalized binary logistic regression model was used to assess the factors associated with experience of at least one adverse event and the experience of number of adverse events using Stata version 16. Results Among the 240 participants, 88.2% had experienced at least one adverse event. The most common adverse event after the first dose was pain at injection site (65.8%), headache (57.5%), tiredness (55.8%), fever (51.7%), chills (39.6%), and muscle pains (38.3%). Experience of adverse events was 16 times higher among those who took their vaccines in Ghana (adjusted odd ratio [AOR]: 16.2, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.98–132.56, p = 0.009), 94% less among those who took AstraZeneca (India) compared to AstraZeneca (Oxford) (AOR: 0.06, 95% CI: 0.01–0.37, p = 0.002) and 86% less among 40–49 years compared with less than 30 years old (AOR: 0.14, 95% CI: 0.03–0.58, p = 0.007). Conclusion Pain at the injection site, headache, tiredness, fever, chills, and muscle pains were the most frequently reported adverse events. The study identified country of vaccination, country of origin of AstraZeneca vaccine and age to be associated with adverse events of vaccination.

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“…The latest country reports, at the time of writing, areAdu-Ababio et al (2023) for Ghana,Castelo et al (2023) for Mozambique, deMahieu et al (2023) for Rwanda,Kalikeka et al (2023) for Zambia,Leyaro et al (2023) for Tanzania,Shahir et al (2023) for Ethiopia, andWaiswa et al (2023) for Uganda.…”

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Performance of tax-benefit systems amid COVID-19 crises in sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative perspective

Lastunen,

Shahir,

Rattenhuber

et al. 2023

WIDER Working Paper

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Integration of indirect taxation to GHAMOD

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Understanding Vulnerability to Poverty, COVID-19’s Effects, and Implications for Social Protection: Insights from Ghana

Understanding Vulnerability to Poverty, COVID-19’s Effects, and Implications for Social Protection: Insights from Ghana

Prevalence of common adverse events experienced following COVID‐19 vaccination and its associated factors in Ghana: Cross‐sectional study design

Performance of tax-benefit systems amid COVID-19 crises in sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative perspective

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