Criminal code, 1960 (ACT 29). Accra: Government of Ghana; 1960. Google Scholar DOVVSU office in Bolgatanga records 22. defilement cases in 2 years [https://www.dreamzfmonline.com/news/dovvsu-office-in-bolgatanga-records-22-defilement-cases-in-2-years/index.html]. Accessed 20 Aug 2023...
The term ‘Industrial Relations’ refers to the relationship between three actors, namely labour (trade unions), management and government. It has been observed that the nature of the industrial relations scene in a developing economy is often a crucial factor affecting development, especially in the...
In recent years illegal small-scale gold mining across Ghana has shifted radically away from the traditional form with low inputs, productivity, and unorganized labour (Borquaye, 2020, Kessey and Arko, 2013), to increased levels of sophistication, organisation, and investment, including the use ...
The data used is mainly based on household and market surveys from Ghana. Ghana is a lower-middle-income country in West Africa, with a population of about 31 million [49]. In 2019, the country had a nominal GDP of about US$69 billion [50], with the service sector contributing the la...
Because groundnuts are typically grown in this setting using traditional methods and no inputs other than seeds and labour – albeit generating poor yields – farmers do not perceive an absolute need for technical assistance or input provision that often underpins modern value chain development (...
mining operations: the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992); the Incorporated Partnership Act, 1962 (Act 152); the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre Act, 2013 (Act 865); the Income Tax Act, 2015 (Act 896); the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651); and the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1987 (PNDCL ...
so we started recruiting child prostitutes as well," he said.With an estimated 20, 000 children on the streets of Accra, many already engaged in childlabour,Abangaand the owners of the brothel did not find it difficult recruiting child sex workers. "We knew it was wrong but the money was...
Vigh (2009, 25) notes that social navigation is about surviving, in the present and future: ‘when we navigate, we act and react to overcome immediate difficulties, yet we also move towards a place that is still to come’. Similarly, health providers were oriented to immediate and long ...
They do this through share-cropping arrangements, with the migrants making cash payments and using their labour as upfront investments only to lose the established farms when they are discovered by forestry officials during their routine monitoring activities (Kumeh et al., 2022, 2021). Other ...
Industries in Ghana, over the centuries and for the sake of developments, have degraded the environment by polluting the air, water, and land through agric