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This paper aims to contribute to understanding the existing knowledge gaps in the linkages of energy, water, and land use in Southeast Asia and explores the political economy of energy transition in the Mekong region (MR). Investigating the struggle over hydropower development and...
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The Mekong River is the major water source in Southeast Asia and shared by six countries. There is a rush to acquire sources of alternative energy and other benefits to meet the growing demand for water and energy, while China and Myanmar have refused to cooperate fully in the Mekong River...
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Recent efforts to reinvigorate the connections between urban planning and health have usefully brought the field back to one of its original roles. Current research, however, has focused on industrialized cities, overlooking some of the important urbanization processes in poor countries. This...
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and the southwestern and coastal basin systems of Ghana has been undertaken as a component of the impacts and adaptation … study for Ghana by UNU-WIDER and the University of Ghana. Four climate change scenarios were considered in addition to a … the water allocation modeling. The climate impacts on yields of many of the economically important Ghana crops were …
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rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of … income poverty are imperative for different locations in Ghana. …
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investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana …Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country's poor people … Living Standards Survey, in addition to data on annual rainfall and temperature for northern Ghana for the period 1991 to …
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poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households …
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the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty survey in Ghana, we analyse the factors that influence happiness among the …
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Using a nationally representative household survey data set from Ghana, this paper provides empirical evidence … regarding the role of financial inclusion or financial exclusion in household welfare. We first compute a multidimensional index … of financial inclusion, and then we examine the effect of financial inclusion on household welfare. The study finds that …
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welfare outcomes. Specifically, we use a household panel survey collected in 2013 and 2015 in rural areas of Ghana. We exploit …The decision to migrate is often influenced by the experience of earlier migrants from one's household. Earlier …. We explore patterns of migration within rural households and the impact that these later migrants have on household …
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