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on the issue. It is argued that in developing countries with poverty, inequality, social norms, credit-land-labour market … inherent factors responsible for this especially the role of poverty is examined in this research note. …
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higher among girls. Poverty emerges to be necessary condition thereby preparing the breeding ground but not sufficient to …. This includes not only the physical but also the human component, which is emerging to be more crucial. Poverty alleviation …
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of poverty on child labour and child soldier. An attempt is made in this article to highlight and critically examine the …
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The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour there prevails and … children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is …
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This study assesses the impact of income and asset poverty on child work using the rural sub-sample of the 2004 Malawi …
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This paper analyses the impact of adverse economic shocks on human capital formation in the case of India. It uses the extended theoretical model of Basu and Van (1998). The study has been carried out for the period between 1999 and 2002 and covers 385 districts. The results show that during a...
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, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between …The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty … in Ghana. Using micro data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey conducted in 2012/2013, marginal …
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The Christian Health Association of Ghana is the largest federation of faith-inspired provider of health services in … Ghana. With 168 hospitals and clinics at the time this paper was written, 70 percent of which are affiliated with the … data from the Ministry of Health. Using poverty mapping techniques and simple regression analysis, this paper aims to …
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to poverty estimates among households in Ghana and to examine the effect of various socioeconomic characteristics on … vulnerability to poverty. Method The study uses cross section data from the fifth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS … The results show that, about 56% of households in Ghana are vulnerable to poverty and this is significantly higher than …
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Incidence of poverty for Ghana has reduced from about 52% in 1991/92 to 28.5% in 2005/06. This is a remarkable drop in … poverty. A number of policies and programmes have been implemented to reduce extreme in Ghana. On such policy, liberalisation … Matrix (SAM) of Ghana. In spite of the strong criticism against import liberalisation as being anti-growth and poverty …
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