Ghana Country Environmental Analysis

doi:10.1596/33726

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Ghana Country Environmental Analysis

dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2020-05-12T19:51:00Z
dc.date.available	2020-05-12T19:51:00Z
dc.date.issued	2020-04
dc.description.abstract	Over the past 30 years, real GDP in Ghana has more than quadrupled, and in 2011 the country joined the ranks of Lower Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Macroeconomic momentum has been driven in part by higher prices for Ghana’s main commodity exports, gold and cocoa, and the start of commercial oil production. This fits an overall trend that has seen natural resource rents as a percentage of GDP more than double between 1990 and the present; approximately one-half of these rents come from non-renewable sources (oil, mineral, natural gas). Environmental unsustainability may impair Ghana’s economic growth, as demonstrated through two economic indicators. The first is national wealth, the measurement of a country’s assets in produced capital, natural capital (renewable and non-renewable), human capital, and net foreign assets, a gauge of growth sustainability. Between 2000 and 2014, Ghana saw total national wealth more than double. Growth is predicated on efficiently and sustainably managing natural capital, a fact which can be demonstrated through increase in its per capita value over time, and reinvesting proceeds into other forms of capital, primarily human (Lange et al., 2018). Yet, much of Ghana’s recent wealth growth came with liquidation of non-renewable assets and losses to renewable resources, as well as erosion of produced capital. Ghana’s high population growth makes this a pressing concern since existing capital stocks must be shared with younger and future generations.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/419871588578973802/Ghana-Country-Environmental-Analysis
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/33726
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/33726
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
dc.subject	NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION PLAN
dc.subject	ECOSYSTEM
dc.subject	ACCESS TO DRINKING WATER
dc.subject	LAND DEGRADATION
dc.subject	ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
dc.subject	AIR POLLUTION
dc.subject	PLASTIC POLLUTION
dc.subject	DEFORESTATION
dc.subject	GOLD MINING
dc.subject	FISHERIES
dc.subject	CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.title	Ghana Country Environmental Analysis	en
dc.type	Report	en
dc.type	Rapport	fr
dc.type	Informe	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Ghana Country Environmental Analysis
okr.date.disclosure	2020-05-04
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work::Country Environmental Analysis
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/419871588578973802/Ghana-Country-Environmental-Analysis
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/33726
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okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	31996655
okr.identifier.report	148187
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/419871588578973802/pdf/Ghana-Country-Environmental-Analysis.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	Africa
okr.region.country	Ghana
okr.topic	Environment::Air Quality & Clean Air
okr.topic	Environment::Brown Issues and Health
okr.topic	Environment::Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases
okr.topic	Environment::Coastal and Marine Environment
okr.topic	Environment::Ecosystems and Natural Habitats
okr.topic	Environment::Natural Resources Management
okr.topic	Environment::Pollution Management & Control
okr.topic	Environment::Sustainable Land Management
okr.topic	Environment::Water Resources Management
okr.unit	Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice