20 years since the negotiation of the Palermo Protocol on Trafficking in 2000, the anti-trafficking field has gone from an early, almost exclusive preoccupation with sex work to addressing extreme exploitation in a range of labour sectors. While this might suggest a reduced focus on the nature o...
Part III. Ghana and the International Labour Organization (ILO)Panford, Prof. K
At the core of these patterns has been the schooling factor. This study uses data from the Ghana living standards surveys with demographically enriched information to estimate female labour force participation and fertility models. We find that female schooling matters in both urban and rural local...
Labour unions have consented to their pension funds being incorporated into the government’s debt exchange plan. However, their optimism is tempered by doubts.
Children’s initiation of early sex has several negative implications on their sexual and reproductive health, growth and development. In Ghana, few studies on early sexual debut have focused on adolescents. Therefore, this study examined the prevalence,
The current Report examines the related issues of child labour and youth employment in the context of Ghana. Guided by observed outcomes in terms of schooling, work activities and status in the labour market, the report considers the economic as well as the social determinants of child labour an...
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(p. 42) are all beaten up regularly by their husbands. But they do not protest because of patriarchal indoctrination that men are their protector, therefore, the act of violence by them is justified. When men are confronted for the violence against women, they would justify their act by ...
Labour standards in the phase of declining textile industry. The Ghanaian case This thesis examines how the decline in the textile industry in Ghana has affected labour. Processes of neo-liberalization in the Ghanaian economy which comes in the form of Structural Adjustment Programmes have led to ...
Reports from earlier studies indicate that low productivity is common in the construction industry in developing countries like Ghana and this could be attributed to poor labour productivity. The aim...doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94199-8_50Emmanuel Bamfo-Agyei...