Examining urban delivery service user profiles and determinants of drone delivery adoption in Ghana considering usage before and after the COVID-19 pandemic

R Tamakloe, K Zhang, J Atandzi, D Park - Transport Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
The demand for urban delivery services (UDS) in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs)
has been growing due to the spike in e-commerce activities. This phenomenon has led to …

[HTML][HTML] The politics of policy failure in Ghana: The case of oil palm

KT Asante - World Development Perspectives, 2023 - Elsevier
The paper argues that political economy factors have hindered the development of the oil
palm value chain in Ghana, which has consistently underperformed despite significant …

Government preparedness towards Ebola and Covid-19 health crises in Ghana

J Antwi-Boasiako, G Asamoah-Gyadu - Public Organization Review, 2023 - Springer
The African continent has witnessed most health crises including yellow fever, meningitis,
cholera, and Ebola. Two recent health crises faced by Ghana have been the Ebola virus and …

Post-COVID economic crisis, citizen-state relations, and the Electronic Transactions Levy (E-levy) controversy in Ghana

KT Asante, E Kumi, M Kodom - World Development Perspectives, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract In 2021, the Government of Ghana sparked controversy by introducing the
Electronic Transactions Levy (E-Levy) as part of an aggressive programme of revenue …

Ghana beyond aid: A bargaining chip for Draconian economic policies in Ghana

EO Ntim, TP Botchway - The African Review, 2023 - brill.com
This article evaluates the austere economic policies implemented by the Akufo-Addo-
Administration using the Ghana Beyond Aid vision as a guarantee. For a state that virtually …

[PDF][PDF] Inequality and Inclusive Development in Ghana

ANA Sowah, PSK Tetteh, KT Asante - Reduced Inequalities, 2023 - library.oapen.org
Inequality is the subject of vigorous debates in academic and policy circles because it
invariably draws on moral sentiments about what constitutes a fair and just society. While …

[BOOK][B] Transitioning to Reduced Inequalities

S Bieri, C Bader - 2023 - library.oapen.org
The world has never been richer than today. The distribution of our global wealth, however,
is hugely biased. Since 1980, the gains were mainly captured by the rich: The top 1 …

The Biopolitics of COVID-19: Thinking through, with and 'beyond'Foucault

C Amo-Agyemang - Theoria, 2024 - berghahnjournals.com
This article is heavily inspired by Michel Foucault's lectures on biopolitical power over life as
a starting point for thinking about contemporary global response to COVID-19. The article …

[BOOK][B] Humanity over economy: biopolitical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana

J McKeown - 2022 - econstor.eu
This study posits that pandemics should be regarded as complex, open-ended phenomena
that cannot be reduced to biology and epidemiology. The research assesses Ghana's …

[PDF][PDF] The Peruvian response to the COVID-19 pandemic

C Gianella - 2022 - wider.unu.edu
Why does a state like Peru, dedicated to fulfilling development goals and sustained good
macroeconomic performance, appear incapable of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic …