Policy Responses to fight COVID-19; the case of Ghana

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.摘要 本研究聚焦加纳政府的政策应对举措，涵盖卫生、经济与社会三大领域。加纳已在上述三大领域推出多项政策干预措施。本研究重点梳理了该国在卫生领域采用的3T策略（3T-approach）、经济领域的CAP-20计划，以及面向全体公民的免费供水与电价补贴社会干预举措。研究表明，尽管加纳政府的相关政策在执行机制层面仍存在部分待解决的挑战，但已取得显著成效。截至2020年10月25日的加纳新冠疫情（COVID-19）相关统计数据，进一步印证了这些政策成果。