Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment
|
Buy Now
Globalization, Trade and Poverty in Ghana (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,355
Discovery Miles 13 550
|
|
Globalization, Trade and Poverty in Ghana (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
The persistence of poverty in many developing countries, especially
in Sub-Saharan Africa, in the face of increased globalisation and
rapid trade liberalisation during the past two decades has inspired
considerable debate on the impact of globalisation, in general, and
trade liberalisation, in particular, on poverty. In Ghana, as in
many other African countries, poverty remains the fundamental
problem confronting policy makers in the new millennium as
highlighted in the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy. Yet, between
1991 and 2006, the headcount index of poverty fell by 23.2
percentage points with the proportion of the population living
below the national poverty line falling from 51.7% in 1991/92 to
28.5% in 2005/06. Poverty had fallen in the countryside as well as
in the towns, though progress had been more rapid in rural areas.
This optimism is, however, tempered by the fact that while poverty
declined, inequality increased significantly during the same
period. Large reductions in the incidence of poverty have occurred
among private sector employees in both the formal and informal
sectors, and among public sector wage employees, but export farmers
have experienced the largest reduction in consumption poverty.
Poverty reduction among the large numbers of food crop farmers, on
the other hand, has been modest. Reductions in the incidence of
poverty over the period have been smaller also for the non-farm
self employed and informal sector wage employees. A recent
publication by the World Bank suggests that had there been no
change in inequality, the reduction in poverty would have reached
27.5 percentage points, so that Ghana would have achieved the
Millenium Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing poverty by half
in relation to its level of 1991/92. This book is one response to
the challenge posed by the paucity of recent empirical evidence on
the poverty and distributional impacts of trade policy reform in
Ghana. The main objective of the study is to contribute to our
understanding of the poverty and distributional impact of trade
policy reform in Ghana by analyzing how trade liberalisation
affects the well-being of households and in particular, if the
outcome it generates is pro-poor, with particular interest in the
gender-differentiated impact.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.