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Ghana Under Structural Adjustment
Author | : Alexander Sarris |
Publisher | : New York University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9780814779323 |
"The State of World Rural Poverty offers the first comprehensive look at the economic conditions and prospects of the world's rural poor. Certain to become a definitive source of data and analysis, especially for the unique rural poverty indexes of 114 developing countries, as well as an invaluable policy guide to issues involving development and poverty in underdeveloped nations, this volume incorporates research from all over the world."--BOOK JACKET.
The Dynamics of Rural Poverty in Ghana and Its Alleviation
Author | : Kodwo Ewusi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Ghana |
ISBN | : |
FAO pub. Consultant report on rural poverty alleviation and rural development in Ghana - examines natural resources and demographic aspects; analyses economic growth trends, 1950 to 1980, (steady state economy, inflation), role of food prices, land tenure, access to agricultural credit and other inputs, income distribution and rural urban disparities, social indicators of the quality of life in rural areas; discusses development policies from 1950 to 1982, obstacles encountered. References and statistical tables.
Poverty Orientated Agricultural and Rural Development
Author | : Hartmut Brandt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2006-12-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134205147 |
Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between six and seven per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance. This is despite the fact that eighty per cent of the world's poor live in rural agricultural areas and that the poor are disproportionately affected when political, military and natural events lead to regional or global food shortages. Brandt and Otzen's key book fills a gap in current literature, undertaking a wide-ranging conceptual reorientation of development cooperation, criticizing the current orthodoxy and its bias towards urban areas, and arguing that in order to effectively alleviate poverty across the world, agricultural and rural development measures need to be implemented both by central and subnational governments, aid agencies and the private sector. The authors investigate the world food question, the current pressures it is under and its link to rural poverty, and set out the policies that need to be undertaken to reduce global poverty.
Cities and rural transformation: A spatial analysis of rural youth livelihoods in Ghana
Author | : Diao, Xinshen |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2017-01-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Urbanization has had a major impact on livelihoods in Ghana and throughout Africa as a whole. However, much research on urbanization has focused on effects occurring within cities, while there is insufficient understanding of its effects on rural areas. This paper examines the impact of urbanization—through a typology of districts—on rural livelihoods in Ghana. The country’s districts are classified into seven spatial groups according to the size of the largest city in each district in southern and northern Ghana. The paper does not address rural–urban migration but instead focuses on the livelihoods of rural households. In contrast to the extensive literature focusing on the effects of urbanization on individuals, we assess its impacts on individual rural households as a whole, with a particular focus on youth-headed households. Many rural households have shifted their primary employment from agriculture to nonagriculture, especially in the more urbanized South. In contrast, change in livelihood diversification within rural households with family members’ primary employment in both agriculture and nonagriculture appears much less rapid. Rural youth-headed households are significantly more associated with the transition away from agriculture than households headed by other adults, and such trends are stronger in locations closer to larger cities, particularly in the South. Although the nonagricultural economy is becoming increasingly important for rural households, contrary to expectations, the probit model analysis in this paper shows that agricultural production does not appear to be more intensified—in terms of modern input use—in the more urbanized South, and youth do not show greater agricultural technology adoption than other adults, indicating that the constraints against modern input adoption may be binding for all farmers, including youth and farmers in more urbanized locations. We also find that rural poverty rates are consistently lower among nonagricultural households, and the share of middle-class population is also disproportionally higher among rural nonagricultural households than agricultural households. While the probit analysis confirms the positive relationship between being a nonagricultural household and being nonpoor or becoming middle class after controlling for all other factors, education seems to play the biggest role. As rural youth become more educated and more households shift from agriculture to the rural nonfarm economy, a different range of technologies for agricultural intensification is necessary for agriculture to be attractive for youth. A territorial approach and related policies that integrate secondary cities and small towns with the rural economy deserve more attention such that the diversification of rural livelihoods can become a viable alternative or complement to rural–urban migration for youth.
Gender, Poverty, and Nonfarm Employment in Ghana and Uganda
Author | : Constance Newman |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Agricultural Output |
ISBN | : |
For women in Ghana and Uganda, nonfarm activities play an important role in yielding the lowest - and the most rapidly declining - rural poverty rates. In both countries rural poverty declined fastest for female heads of household engaged in nonfarm work (which tended to be a secondary activity). But patterns vary between the two countires.
Agricultural Policies for Poverty Reduction
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2012-03-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264112901 |
This volume sets out a strategy for raising rural incomes which emphasises the creation of diversified rural economies with opportunities within and outside agriculture.
Agricultural Policies for Poverty Reduction A Synthesis
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2012-03-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264167692 |
This book synthesizes the findings of a longer work which sets out a strategy for raising rural incomes.
The State of World Rural Poverty
Author | : Idriss Jazairy |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0814737544 |
Despite almost four decades and billions of dollars in development activities, we are barely in a position to track the changing dynamics of poverty or to define with conviction the processes that entrap the poor in their misery. Accounting for about 90% of global poverty, rural poverty, through transmigration, is also a main contributor to urban poverty. It is in the rural areas of the world where poverty is most severe in human terms, where the hunger, hopelessness, hardship, and despair commonly associated with entrenched poverty are most pronounced, where basic health services, sanitation, educational opportunities, and other common amenities are most lacking. The alleviation of rural poverty is therefore tantamount to the alleviation of global poverty in its entirety. The State of World Rural Poverty offers the first comprehensive look at the economic conditions and prospects of the world's rural poor.