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-...
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...
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...
It is important to know whether the relationships between experienced and evaluative well-being and health are consistent across countries with different income levels. This would allow to confirm whether the evidence found in high income countries is the same as in low- and middle-income countries...
one must take for comparison an income level at which 25 percent of the families receive less and a level at which 25 percent of the families receive more, and calculate the ratio of these levels (analogously, one can take as the basis the 10-percentile and 5-percentile groups, with relat...
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 develop a panel threshold model that identifies breakpoints for structural shifts ...
Loan refusal has been a problem facing many loan applicants at the household level and this problem is not new to loan applicants in Ghana. Despite this knowledge, researchers passively discuss loan refusal and do not consider the intensity of this problem. This study analyses the effect of hous...
Taking African countries with the fastest rates of urbanization as an example, the decentralization of services in Ghana leads to a reducing rural-to-urban migration23 (the Ethiopian government directly discourages rural-to-urban migration; National Population Policy of Ethiopia, 1993)24; and urban ...