positive impact of farm size and reinforce the negative effect of income. The model is estimated for rural Ghana and Pakistan … Pakistan and for girls in Ghana but there is no income effect for the other two groups of children. We find interesting effects …

positive impact of farm size and reinforce the negative effect of income. The model is estimated for rural Ghana and Pakistan … Pakistan and for girls in Ghana but there is no income effect for the other two groups of children. We find interesting effects …

immediately preceded it, has spread to the developing countries endangering recent gains in terms of economic growth and poverty …, households with few economic opportunities are at a higher risk of falling into (monetary) poverty, suffering from hunger … Africa (WCA) over the period 2009-2011. It is based on country studies for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Ghana, which broadly …

crisis would increase monetary poverty and hunger across all regions of Ghana, eroding many of the gains made over the past … cut the predicted increase in monetary poverty by over two percentage points in 2011. Although Ghana might be in a …Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana is experiencing the impact of the global crisis and the uncertain …

This paper analyzes the links between child labour and poor school performance, using data gathered in Ghana in recent …

poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of … requires alleviation of the poverty of their households. Trade sanctions or bans on child labour may have deleterious …

This paper investigates the hypothesis that child labour is compelled by poverty or that the child's income … zero for girls. Thus while the evidence is consistent with boys working on account of poverty compulsions, the evidence is …

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. …

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 …