Library Resource
Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 1991
Angola, Nigeria, Mauritania, Guinea, Sudan, Ghana, Namibia, Africa
Agriculture, forestry and fishing are important sectors of Ghana's economy and improvement in the performance of these sectors is central to the country's current economic recovery programme.1 The severe economic decline which the country went through between the early 1970's and the early 1980's affected poorer socio-economic groups in particular 2 through depressed wage levels and increased unemployment.