April 2017

Enhancing the middle class as a development resource in Africa: Insights from Northern Ghana

One indicator of national economic progress is middle class expansion. While recent studies show an increasing sub-Saharan African middle class, there is no clear empirical appreciation of the factors driving this and how they may be sustained. This study uses data from Northern Ghana and a logistic regression model to identify the factors determining the probability of being in the middle class to provide public and...

Author(s): Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Kara Ross and Yacob Zereyesus