Purpose – Using a recently compiled dataset on migration and remittances in Ghana, the purpose of this paper is to … migration and welfare. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses treatment regression techniques to assess the … characteristics of Ghanaian migrants, the determinants of migration, and its impact on household welfare. Findings – The paper finds …

Purpose – Using a recently compiled dataset on migration and remittances in Ghana, the purpose of this paper is to … migration and welfare. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses treatment regression techniques to assess the … characteristics of Ghanaian migrants, the determinants of migration, and its impact on household welfare. Findings – The paper finds …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to raise concern and discussion about poverty. This paper explores the … difficulties of defining poverty and its origins. Design/methodology/approach – This paper utilizes research from psychological and … sociological literature to analyze differing schools of thought regarding poverty. A macro-level perspective of poverty is defined …

their different transmission channels can be used to reduce poverty in Africa. Design/methodology/approach Using the Human … Development Index (HDI) as the measure of welfare, the authors specify these relationships using the System GMM estimator approach …. Findings The authors hypothesise that for remittance to effectively improve welfare, the recipient of remittances must have …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to raise concern and discussion about poverty. This paper explores the … difficulties of defining poverty and its origins. Design/methodology/approach – This paper utilizes research from psychological and … sociological literature to analyze differing schools of thought regarding poverty. A macro‐level perspective of poverty is defined …

Purpose – This paper's purpose is to examine the nature and correlates of poverty in Ghana. Design … poverty in Ghana. It looks at poverty within various sectors of an economy by simultaneously examining the issues both from …/methodology/approach – Using the most recently published household living standards survey; the paper computes poverty indicators using the Foster …

Purpose – This paper's purpose is to examine the nature and correlates of poverty in Ghana. Design … poverty in Ghana. It looks at poverty within various sectors of an economy by simultaneously examining the issues both from …/methodology/approach – Using the most recently published household living standards survey; the paper computes poverty indicators using the Foster …

Purpose – Poverty reduction remains one of the main goals of development efforts, as evidenced by the adoption of the … relationship between trade (exports) and employment and how the relationship reduces poverty through the instrumentality of … employment to reduce poverty, while agricultural trade, particularly exports, are capable of reducing poverty and inequality in …

Purpose – This is an account-taking paper on the status of global poverty and its reduction. The purpose of this paper … is to examine why some countries reduce poverty more quickly than others. Design/methodology/approach – The data on the … identify the status and determinants of poverty across countries. Next, using the national data on poverty level with respect …