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, child labour and access to health services) in Ghana and to support the policy-maker in designing the most appropriate … crisis would increase monetary poverty and hunger across all regions of Ghana, eroding many of the gains made over the past …Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana is experiencing the impact of the global crisis and the uncertain …
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health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … to explain any of the child mortality variation between Ghana and its neighbors. Geography and health policy variables … each explain about 40% of the mortality gap between Ghana and Burkina Faso. Health policy differences alone are able to …
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Using available data on the distribution of HIV/AIDS prevalence across population groups for four sub-Saharan African countries and transposing this information to household income and expenditure surveys, we simulate the impact of HIV/AIDS on poverty and inequality. We find that the epidemic...
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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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protection. Results from a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana are combined with the extensive margin elasticity of …
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through education. This study sought to ascertain the relative contribution of child labourers to farm and non-farm income … using the GLSS6 data and employed a SUR estimation that simulated, empirically, with child's education. Findings showed that ….12 contribution towards non-farm income. By implication, child education policy removes child labourers from the farm but are likely …
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through education. This study sought to ascertain the relative contribution of child labourers to farm and non-farm income … using the GLSS6 data and employed a SUR estimation that simulated, empirically, with child's education. Findings showed that ….12 contribution towards non-farm income. By implication, child education policy removes child labourers from the farm but are likely …
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