20 full-length reports on macroeconomic policy, public finance, financial markets and enterprise decisions. Original IDER publications by Dr. Felix Larry Essilfie.
Browse research reports and download their original English PDFs. Each report page identifies its author, evidence cut-off, reference period and limits of interpretation.
20 results
Investigates how the composition and execution of Ghana’s fiscal adjustment shape household consumption, enterprise receipts, investment and public-service capacity. Official spending comparisons and published programme evidence are combined with conditional demand and cash-flow scenarios to explain why wages, procurement, transfers and capital spending require distinct analysis.
Read publicationCompares Ghana’s debt-service pressures with financing, budget execution and real resources for health, education and social protection. The report reconciles overlapping allocations, examines spending per resident and programme payment records, and tests conditional financing and provider-liquidity scenarios while distinguishing budget promises from delivered resources.
Read publicationExamines how exchange-rate changes reach business costs, margins, competition and currency liabilities. Historical evidence and six explicitly assumed enterprise profiles translate currency exposure into practical cash-flow and decision questions.
Read publicationSeparates foreign-exchange receipts, payments and market conversion from movements in the cedi. Flow reconciliation, monthly proxy models and sensitivity tests show how far the available evidence supports attribution to potential drivers.
Read publicationDistinguishes headline reserve measures from readily available foreign-currency resources and payment capacity. It examines gold valuation, import coverage, external obligations and conditional liquidity scenarios using explicitly defined evidence.
Read publicationMaps sectoral credit balances, inflation-adjusted growth and enterprise access to finance. The briefing connects allocation diagnostics with measurement choices, sensitivity analysis and separately attributed experimental evidence.
Read publicationConnects government-security exposure with bank capital, asset quality, liquidity and capacity to finance private investment. Source-reconciled accounting and explicit stress tests clarify where bank resilience and lending constraints may interact.
Read publicationExplores reinvestment income, purchasing power and the matching of assets to future obligations. Ghanaian evidence is combined with transparent valuation, funding and saver scenarios to support exposure-based decisions.
Read publicationInvestigates the relationship between Treasury-bill yields, business lending rates and banks’ portfolio allocation. Dated financing evidence and exploratory monthly estimates are presented alongside uncertainty and requirements for stronger causal analysis.
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