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This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both...
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-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty …. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would increase inequality and have a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to … diversification strategies. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications differ somewhat from our expectations. Our findings indicate …
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the population and would reduce poverty. Opportunity-led diversification, by contrast, would increase inequality and have … a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to be confined to non-poor households. Using data from a household survey … opportunity-led diversification. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications of the differently motivated diversification …
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This paper examines the resource curse and its transmission channels by resource type. We review and synthesize existing theories of the transmission channels of the curse. This synthesis suggests that (1) relating the transmission channels to the characteristics of different types of resources,...
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Focusing on intra-household allocation, we investigate the effects of coffee market liberalisation in Uganda. As coffee has traditionally been a male domain, higher income from this activity might increase gender disparities. In addition, gender-related inefficiency in household production might...
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, growth generated by the boom reduces poverty despite increasing informality. …
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