Public Corruption in Ghana and Its Influence on Monetary and Fiscal Policy Making Frank R. Gunter, Ph.D. and Todd A. Watkins, Ph.D. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA Draft, February 2025 Why public corruption in Ghana matters Ghana’s December 2024 election, occurring in the wake of the country’s worst economic cri sis in decades, presents a critical opportunity for substantive reform. The economic crisis offers stark lessons in how corruption undermines both fiscal and monetary policy effectiveness. Sys temic corruption has corroded the basic machin ery of economic management, with entrenched patronage networks rendering conventional pol icy tools increasingly ineffective. The December 2022 sovereign default and subsequent Interna tional Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout—Ghana’s 17th since independence—reflect not just exter nal shocks but also the culmination of systematic governance failures READ MORE. View / Download File Tags: corruption, policymaking Read more articles Next PostFree Senior High School (FSHS) Policy: A Call for Robust Revision and Sustainable Funding You Might Also Like ECOWAS MISGUIDED SANCTIONS: WHY GOOD GOVERNANCE MATTERS March 27, 2024 Free Senior High School (FSHS) Policy: A Call for Robust Revision and Sustainable Funding April 23, 2025 FOURTH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT: THE IMPERATIVE OF GOVERNANCE AND MUTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY October 27, 2024 Leave a Reply Cancel replyCommentEnter your name or username to comment Enter your email address to comment Enter your website URL (optional) Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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