Northern Ghana is underdeveloped because of underinvestment during colonial rule, not geography

By Iddrisu Mohammed Kambala, PhD Candidate, University of South Carolina

Ghana’s most important development problem is arguably the disparity between the north and south of the country. The north is acutely underdeveloped, trailing the south in practically all metrics of development.

Several inequality reports have consistently labelled the northern region as one of concern. Its rate of poverty level decline has remained very slow: from a poverty rate of 55.7% in 2006 to 50.4% in 2012. Southern Ghana enjoys a

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