SAGA Progress Report
April, 2004

1. The authors’ conference on the first drafts of papers for the Understanding Poverty in Ghana was organized by our partner institution, the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), in January. The conference was opened by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana (who is himself an author of a paper for the volume), and the final session was chaired by the Director General of the National Development Planning Commission, which is the agency charged with coordinating the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy.
   
   
2. An organizational meeting on Qualitative and Quantitative Poverty Appraisal was also held in January at ISSER.
   
   
3. ISSER has received and is responding to the first round referee reports on its research proposal to the Secretariat for Institutional Support for Economic Research in Africa (SISERA) on creating panel data sets for Ghana. We should know the results in the next six months.
   
   
4. The main activity of the last six months has been planning the July conference on "Ghana’s Economy at the Half Century," which was described in the last report. This will be the launch conference of the new Network on the Economy of Ghana. The network will be managed by ISSER. The Call for Papers went out on November 15. Papers were selected in January, and the program is now being finalized.
   
   

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