Call for applications for PhD scholarship in Social Policy Studies
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PhD in Social Policy Studies
CSPS seminar: Taxing informal workers
What are informal workers paying to the state and what do they get in return?
See the full working paper here on the WIEGO website.
CSPS proposes new, more equitable formula for District Assembly Common Fund
CSPS researchers, Dr. Kwadwo Opoku and Dr. George Domfe, presented a new formula for allocation of the District Assembly Common Fund to members of the Special Parliamentary Committee on Poverty Reduction. NDPC and UNICEF helped to organize this roundtable discussion on the District League Table and how it can be more effectively used to address the disparities among the districts. The meeting also provided an opportunity to examine the extent to which the existing District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) formula is able to address inequalities among the 261 Districts.
CSPS Seminar: Local development in Northern Ghana
The "local turn" in devleopment planning is often traced to the late 1990s and 2000s. However, governments in Ghana made village-level projects a cornerstone of rural governance throughout the twentieth centure, particularly in regions considerd remote. Drawing on archival and oral historical research conducted in northern Ghana, the presentation traces this longer history in two ways.