Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the level of income inequality among fisher households in the four segments of the Volta Basin in Ghana and the determinants of small-scale fisher household welfare. Design/methodology/approach The paper investigates income inequality and the ...
Across the globe, a rise in income inequality has been experienced for the last two decades, particularly in developing countries. This problem of income inequality poses a challenge to Africa’s ability to attain the United Nations (UN) Sustainment Deve
Bukari C, Essilfie G, Aning-Agyei MA, Otoo IC, Kyeremeh C, Owusu AA, Bukari KI (2021) Impact of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards in Ghana: a micro-perspective. Cogent Econ Financ 9(1):1879716 Article Google Scholar Bundervoet T, Dávalos ME, Garcia N (2022) The short-...
The revisions raise questions regarding the meaningfulness of comparisons of GDP levels in Sub-Saharan Africa, and leave recent growth estimates shrouded in uncertainty. This paper takes its starting point in this recent revision of Ghana's GDP, and discusses the likelihood of similar revisions in ...
Our analysis places particular emphasis on the nonlinear association between renewable energy consumption and energy intensity across varying income inequality levels. In this context, we use income inequality as the threshold variable and renewable energy consumption as the institutional variable. We ...
It shows that South Africa has the highest Gini index making South Africa the country with the most unequal income distribution in the SSA region, while Ethiopia and Ghana have the lowest income inequality. Several hypotheses have been advanced to explain South Africa’s high-income inequality nota...
Perspectives and practices of healthcare providers and caregivers on healthcare-associated infections in the neonatal intensive care units of two hospitals in Ghana. Health Policy Plan. 2020;35:i38–50. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czaa102. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Hawes...
brugiavini a, pace n. extending health insurance in ghana: effects of the national health insurance scheme on maternity care. heal econ rev. 2016;6(1):7. article google scholar mackintosh m, channon a, karan a, selvaraj s, cavagnero e, zhao h. what is the private sector?
Since the ceremony in which the president made this statement, positive news stories have captured the headlines: (i) the government's discovery that the economy had been undervalued by 60% and that Ghana had consequently reached middle income status; (ii) the increasing levels of foreign direct...
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