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Economic growth and employment generation nexus: Insight from Ghana
(kassel university press, 2016)
Ghana is undoubtedly regarded as one of the leading lights in Africa in terms of strong growth performance since the wind of economic reforms blew across Africa in the 1980s.The challenge has, however, been the effect of this remarkable growth story on the creation of sufficient jobs for the increasing working age population. This paper uses arithmetic computation and econometric estimation to measure and assess the employment effect of the level and sources of growth on the employment generation. It further shows ...
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Transformations of traditional landuse systems and their effects on development opportunities and people’s livelihoods in Northern Ghana
(kassel university press, 2015)
Agricultural land in Northern Ghana was under the traditional arrangements till recent times. Small-scale farmers and their families could collect water, firewood, fodder andseasonal fruits or carried out hunting on communal lands, owned by local chiefs and fetish priests, under the provisions made by customary laws.Recent developments in this area include up-scaling of the mining industry, large scale commercial agriculture projects and cultivation of biofuel crops. All these developmentschemes are affecting access ...
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Determinants and Forecasting of Female Labour Force Participation Rate in India: Testing of Feminization U hypothesis
(kassel university press, 2020-06)
Greater involvement of women within the labour force has economic and social impact. The Female Labour Force Participation Rate (FLFPR) for India remains appallingly low at around 27%, while the male labour force participation rate has been 79.9%. In India, during 1990–2016, the FLFPR (% of female population age 15+) showed a declining trend.
In this paper, the determinants of FLFPR for India have been estimated using regression analysis for the time period 1990–2016. Data on all the relevant variables have been ...
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Crop Insurance and Risk Mitigation: Experiences from India
(kassel university press, 2016)
Crop losses due to various reasons, particularly because of extreme weather situations, is a common phenomenon in agriculture and can prove to be catastrophic in the numerous rain fed fields of backward regions. It is against this backdrop that the development of sustainable mitigation strategies, one of them being crop insurance, comes into picture. It is worth noting in this context that agriculture insurance is under developed in developing countries and a World Bank study (2010) reveals that many state sponsored ...
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Women’s empowerment for sustainable rural livelihoods:
(kassel university press, 2018-12)
Agricultural interventions are designed on certain assumptions of empowerment that do not necessarily address the livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women’s voices expressing their understanding of empowerment and its relation to existing gender orders. Using primary data from the Upper East and Northern Regions in Ghana, we explored women and men’s notions of the processes and outcomes of empowerment. We began by understanding the ...
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Überregionale Potentiale lokaler Innovationsimpulse
(kassel university press, 2012)
Technische und soziale Innovationen gelten als Schlüssel zur Energiewende: Sei es die Erzeugung und Nutzung von Ökostrom, die Beteiligung von Bürgern an Bürgersolaranlagen oder der Bau von Bioenergiedörfern – in den vergangenen zehn Jahren konnten sich verschiedene Neuerungen im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien auf dem Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ausbreiten und damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Klimaschutz leisten. Doch wo und unter welchen Bedingungen werden zunächst kleine und lokal begrenzte Innovationsimpulse ...
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Care Extractivism and the Reconfiguration of Social Reproduction in Post-Fordist Economies
(kassel university press, 2019-04)
This paper suggests the concept of care extractivism as a space- and time-diagnostic tool to international political economics in post-fordist societies. Analogous to resourceextractivism, care extractivism depicts the intensified commodification of social reproduction and care work along social hierarchies of gender, class, race and North-Southas a strategy to cope with a crisis of social reproduction. Extractivist policies result in the creation of a cheap reproductive labour force.The paper analyses the current ...
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Farmers in Peri-Urban Regions: Socio- Economic Changes and Access to Finance Study for Indian Economy
(kassel university press, 2018)
Given the rapid pace of urbanization and expansion of cities, the peri-urban regions become important mostly because of their dynamic and transitional nature. This paper tries to capture the changing nature of socio-economic characteristics and access to different financial activities in the peri-urban regions of India in general and Karnataka in particular. More specifically, the paper examines these changing characteristics among the farmers of the peri-urban regions. Results reveal that urbanization has had impact ...