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Published: 2026-09-28 · Reference: September 2026 platform announcements; no measured adoption or investment outcome
Read the brief →Convert a strong national growth forecast into contract-level questions about payment timing, concentration and working capital.
Published: 2026-09-28 · Reference: AfDB release 23 September 2026; outlook for 2026–2027; illustrative contract stress test
Read the brief →How development teams and market researchers can distinguish a statistical revision from a real change in household welfare.
Published: 2026-09-28 · Reference: World Bank September 2026 vintage; global 2024 estimates compared with March 2026 vintage
Read the brief →A dated reading of official price, output, trade and welfare evidence, with practical implications for business planning and research design.
Published: 2026-09-19 · Reference: August / Q2 2026; Q3 and annual 2025, depending on indicator
Read the brief →The five leading HS6 export products represented approximately 79.2% of Ghana’s reported merchandise export value in 2023. That concentration makes a useful starting point for commercial research: exposure to the same export cycle can connect customers that appear to belong to different industries.
Published: 2026-09-12 · Reference: 2023
Read the brief →Ghana’s trade-to-GDP ratio fell from 70.12% in 2022 to 64.39% in 2023. Reconstructing the nominal value behind that ratio produces a different reading: combined exports and imports of goods and services were approximately unchanged in current US dollars.
Published: 2026-09-12 · Reference: 2019–2023
Read the brief →A comparison of Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal shows why trade openness should be read with the trade balance. Reconstructing export and import shares from these two indicators reveals a much larger import component in Senegal’s 2023 ratio.
Published: 2026-09-12 · Reference: 2023
Read the brief →The World Bank’s Ghana 2023 Enterprise Survey separates access to an account from use of bank finance. Among formal small firms, 90.3% had a checking or savings account, while 10.0% used banks to finance investments. A financing study should investigate that distinction directly.
Published: 2026-09-12 · Reference: Survey labelled 2023; fieldwork February 2023–February 2024
Read the brief →Cocoa beans and non-defatted cocoa paste appear among Ghana’s five leading exported products in the 2023 WITS extract. Together they represented approximately US$1.44 billion and 8.5% of reported merchandise exports. Their relative values help frame a processing enquiry, but cannot establish processing profitability.
Published: 2026-09-12 · Reference: 2023
Read the brief →Ghana’s urban population share rose from 50.9% in 2010 to 56.7% in 2021, while average urban household size fell from 4.1 to 3.3 people. A consumer study should therefore distinguish people, households and purchasing occasions.
Published: 2026-09-12 · Reference: 2010 and 2021 census observations
Read the brief →In the 2021 census, electricity was the main lighting source for 95.2% of urban households and 72.6% of rural households. The 22.6-percentage-point difference gives infrastructure research a clear geographic question, while leaving reliability and affordability to be investigated separately.
Published: 2026-09-12 · Reference: 2021 census
Read the brief →Ghana’s 2021 census counted 10,890,453 children aged 0–14, 1,322,545 people aged 65 or older, and 18,619,021 people aged 15–64. These counts imply approximately 65.6 people in the younger and older groups for every 100 in the conventional working-age group.
Published: 2026-09-12 · Reference: 2021 census
Read the brief →The 2021 census reported health-insurance coverage of 72.6% among females and 64.5% among males. Comparing the complements shows that the proportion without reported coverage was about 30% higher among males. This identifies a descriptive coverage gap, without explaining its causes.
Published: 2026-09-12 · Reference: 2021 census
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