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Everyday Encounters with Fiscal Policy: Taxation, Public Spending, and Women’s Economic Empowerment

Preliminary Insights from the WEE-Ghana Project Every day, thousands of informal sector workers in Ghana pay market levies and fees—but what do these payments reveal about how fiscal systems shape women’s economic opportunities? Understanding how these everyday payments function requires recognising the specific nature of local revenue systems in Ghana. At the district level, many...Continue reading→

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From Leave Reform to Care Systems

National discussions on maternity and paternity leave are gaining momentum. Questions of duration and financing are now firmly on the table. Yet beneath those debates lies another issue: who will actually benefit from reform? Much of the proposed framework is anchored in labour law, and labour law governs formal employment relationships. However, most Ghanaian women...Continue reading→

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Who Pays for Care?

Sharing care is one thing. Sharing its cost is another. If Blog 2 examined how caregiving responsibilities might be more equitably distributed between women and men, this instalment turns to a practical question: when leave is extended — or formalised across the labour market — who absorbs the financial burden? While public servants currently receive...

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Sharing Care: The Harder Reform

If the April 2024 inception meeting established that care is economic infrastructure, subsequent convenings surfaced another reality: care reform requires revisiting long-standing assumptions about who is responsible for care. At the 2025 Care Policies Convening, an early career researcher working on the care component under the Social Policies prong of the WEE-Ghana project, Dr. Faustina...Continue reading→

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Beyond Maternity Leave: Who Shares Care in Ghana?

A Four-Part Series on Redistribution, Reform and Women’s Economic Empowerment Ghana is rethinking its labour laws. As of early 2026, the proposed Labour Bill seeks to extend maternity leave beyond the current twelve weeks and formalise paternity leave nationwide. While the bill remains under review, one thing is clear: caregiving has moved to the centre...Continue reading→