Ghana and Migration
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- Where the rain falls: climate change, food and livelihood security, and migration
- K. Warner / United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012
- This comparative study highlights that rainfall variability and food insecurity are key drivers for human mobility. The empirical research is based on eight country case studies, including a 1,300 household survey and participatory re...
- Issues affecting migration of children in Ghana
- S. O. Kwankye; J. K. Anarfi; C. A. Tagoe / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2009
- Whilst migration is neither a new phenomenon, nor specific to any group of people, the trends and dynamics of population movements vary greatly over space and time. This working paper explores the reasons for the phenomenon of indepen...
- Views on the current financial crisis from the global South
- Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
- The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored it...
- Planning and managing the impacts of climate change on human migration
- M. Couldrey (ed); M. Herson (ed) / Forced Migration Review, 2008
- In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges...
- The impact of demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries
- R. Black; D. Kniveton; R. Skeldon / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2008
- This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for international development and evidence gaps ...
- Is climate change a threat to security in West Africa?: local experts give their views
- O. Brown; A. Crawford / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2008
- Traditionally seen as an environmental and an energy issue, climate change is now also being cast as a threat to international peace and security. Africa, though the least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, is seen as the conti...
- Does education in Ghana really pay off?
- H. A. Sackey / African Economic Research Consortium, 2008
- This study examines private returns to schooling in Ghana over a seven-year period, and the implications for school investments and migration. Overall the study finds that improvement in school attendance over the seven ye...
- Africa's urban poor are struggling to cope with climate-induced flooding
- ActionAid International, 2007
- Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already th...
- Children’s experiences of migration in Ghana
- I. Hashim / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
- This paper looks broadly at the positives and negatives of children’s experiences of migration. It focuses on the dangers and pitfalls that independent child migrants report, along with the perceived benefits and opportunities. I...
- Paying for health care migration: the case for compensation
- Maureen Mackintosh; Kwadwo Mensah; Leroi Henry / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Thousands of health care professionals leave sub-Saharan Africa each year to work in the UK. This flow of skilled workers creates a subsidy to the UK health services that leaves African health services understaffed and unable to deliv...
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