Abstract
Abstract This paper focuses on the policy responses of Ghana’s government with a focus on three areas: health, economic, and social. Ghana had made several policy interventions in these three areas. The study highlighted the adoption of the 3T-approach in health, CAP-20 in economics, and free water and subsidized electricity for citizens as social interventions. The study concludes that the measures undertaken by the Government of Ghana have yielded significant results even though some challenges with delivery mechanisms are identified. The available statistics as of October 25, 2020 on the COVID-19 situation in Ghana further affirm the gains.
Highlights
Dye (2007) has defined public policy as what government chooses to do or not do
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The Ghana government has intervened in most of the facets of the human lives affected by the COVID-19
Summary
Dye (2007) has defined public policy as what government chooses to do or not do. Olssen et al (2004) define policy as any course of action that relates to selecting goals, defining values, and allocating resources. As the COVID-19 has been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), governments around the world are coming up with different policy responses to reduce the impact of this health crisis in their countries. Public administration as an applied field offers more insights on how governments are responding to the pandemic. A specific focus on Ghana is critical to the discourse as Taylor and Berger (2020) reports that when it comes to the coronavirus response, “the World Health Organization is studying some of Ghana’s techniques”. The paper, focuses on the policy responses of Ghana’s government with a focus on three areas; health, economic, and social. The rest of the paper focuses on some policy responses by governments around the world, the methodology, an overview of the health system in Ghana, and the discussion on the policy responses by the Ghana government
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