Browsing by Author "Quartey, Jonathan Dagadu"

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    Decomposition and drivers of energy intensity in Ghana
    (Energy Strategy Reviews, 2023) Oteng-Abayie, Eric Fosu; Dramani, John Bosco; Adusah-Poku, Frank; Amanor, Kofi; Quartey, Jonathan Dagadu; 0000-0002-4598-2066; 0000-0001-8886-7853; 0000-0001-5513-4530; 0000-0002-6937-847X; 0000-0002-7333-2300
    Ghana’s energy intensity trends point to a high energy use necessary to generate a unit of output. The country has also witnessed massive investment in energy infrastructure geared towards meeting its lower middle-income status and achieving universal access to energy. The logical question is: what is the contribution of the cur rent economic and technical infrastructure level to the country’s energy intensity? The current study addresses this question by employing the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index I (LMDI) to decompose energy intensity in Ghana from 2000 to 2020 to examine its trends and sources. The impact of economic-technical factors on aggregate energy intensity in Ghana is then investigated with the aid of the ARDL estimation technique to unearth potential asymmetric and symmetric effects. The decomposition analysis indicates an oscillating pattern in energy in tensity in Ghana promoted by structural effect and labour productivity respectively. The results suggest that renewable energy, rural electrification, and digitisation have a direct and secondary long-run asymmetric effect on aggregate energy intensity with labour productivity and household consumption working as the transmission channels. The study recommends the need for government to pursue clean and eco-friendly practices in its economic development agenda for a meaningful reduction in energy intensity.
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    Natural Capital Policy and Economic Development in Ghana: Development Effect of the 1994 Forestry Policy in the Ashanti Region
    (November, 2016 ) Quartey, Jonathan Dagadu
    This thesis examines the effort to attain economic development in Ghana through natural capital. It evaluates natural capital policy in the context of global policies in developing countries. Suggestions from literature indicate that good natural capital policy is capable of improving the well-being of the poor and should be an area of high priority for natural resource-rich developing countries. The history of natural capital policy spanning over one hundred years in Ghana, made it a country of choice for empirical evidence and consequently the most prominent natural capital policy in the country -forestry policy. The study, mainly quantitative, used both primary and secondary data. Primary data were obtained through the administration of questionnaire to household heads, selected through a two-stage probability sampling procedure, in forest communities in the Ashanti Region. Secondary data were obtained mainly from the Forestry Commission of Ghana’s annual reports. The conceptual framework was based on economic criteria for evaluat ing inclusive wealth creation through forestry policy implemented in Ghana. Three analytica l techniques were employed, namely: efficiency analysis based on the Policy Analysis Matrix, cost-effectiveness analysis and equity analysis based on Lorenz curve, and Giniindex assessments. The thesis found that for all its life, forestry policy in Ghana had been driven by the normative forest science paradigm. Forestry policy in the Ashanti Region has met neither the necessary (efficiency) nor sufficient (equity) conditions for economic development. Therefore forestry policy has not been a driver of economic development in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, thereby serving as a drag on national economic development. The almost absolute silvicultural approach to forestry policy must give way to a more holist ic approach at all stages of the forestry policy process to provide the needed driving force for economic development in Ghana.