ABSTRACT
This chapter makes an assessment of the impacts of regional planning and development policy on socio-economic and spatial disparities between the district localities in the Central Region. The inter-district population distribution is now analysed to identify the urban and rural orientation of the localities. Employment is one of the principal traditional indicators of regional economic growth as well as socio-economic development. There was no major change over the period with respect to the public sector investment aimed at injecting social and productive infrastructure into the Central Region. Despite the slim and minimal improvement in central government's project funding, the financial input is still limited in bringing about a real reduction in the inter-sector disparity. Regional development initiative in the Central Region, as in other regions of Ghana, has been led and driven by the public realm. Private sector and local community initiative have not been accorded the same recognition.
