Public Administration Ⅱ: On Poverty Alleviation, Food Security and Public Health in Ghana: Challenges and Responses, one of CWAS Book Series on West African Studies, was completed by the team group of Center for West African Studies (CWAS), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and was published in August 2021 by Social Sciences Academic Press (China). (ISBN: 978-7-5201-8787-9)

This book features three topics: Poverty Alleviation in Ghana, Food Security and Sustainability in Ghana: Challenges and Responses, and Public Health in Ghana: Current Status and Countermeasures. The book provides an in-depth analysis of three major issues facing the government of Ghana in national and social development, with the aim of offering some references for poverty reduction practices in developing countries, safeguarding food security in sub-Saharan Africa, and protecting global public health.

This book firstly compares Ghana’s poverty alleviation program, and concludes the experience of “Model of ‘Electronic Information+ for Poverty Elimination in Cengong County of Guizhou Province, which can be learnt by Ghana, and proposes the strategic priorities for Ghana’s future poverty alleviation efforts. Secondly, this book also proposes to address the challenges of agricultural development and promote food security in Ghana by analyzing the factors that constrain the productivity of food crops and hinder self-sufficiency. And then, corresponding suggestions are put forward. Thirdly, this book systematically introduces the status quo of public health in Ghana, expounds the impact of economy, politics and society on its reform policies and discusses the challenges it faces, and then sets forth specific countermeasures to promote the development of public health in Ghana.

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Founded in 1985, Social Sciences Academic Press (China), also SSAP, the publishing wing of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, specializes in scholarly publication in the humanities and the social sciences. SSAP upholds the principle of producing classics of broad and long-standing influence both within academia and beyond, and increasingly, both inside and outside of China. And it devotes itself to the integration of global academic resources, research and development of academic products and exchanges of academic achievements.

CWAS Book Series on West African Studies（UESTC）are the collaborative writings by research institutions, scholars and relevant practitioners working on West African studies both from China and abroad, focusing on political, economic, cultural and other hot issues in West Africa. Through conducting country-specific and case studies, it aims to provide references for studies on West Africa and theoretical support for China’s development strategy towards Africa.

Four monographs of CWAS Book Series on West African Studies（UESTC) have been published by the Social Sciences Academic Press (China) since 2017: Public Administration I: Governance in Anglophone West Africa: Challenges and Responses (2018), Economy · Ghana I: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Growth for SMEs in Ghana (2018), Economy · Ghana Ⅱ: Agricultural Supply Chain in Ghana: Risks, Mitigation Strategies and Performance (2020), and Public Administration Ⅱ: On Poverty Alleviation, Food Security and Public Health in Ghana: Challenges and Responses (2021).