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  Employment, Poverty, and Gender in Ghana

  University of Massachussets, Amherst, 2005

  What are the connections between gender, employment, and poverty in Ghana? This report addresses this question using data from the fourth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, administered in 1998/99.
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  Gender Assessment and Action Plan for USAID/Ghana

  2002

  The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-Ghana Gender Assessment and Strategy was undertaken in October-November 2002. Its aim was to provide a review of current gender mainstreaming efforts in the Country Programme and some direction for the programme 2003-2010.
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  Gender Profile

  African News Agency, 2001

  Women in Ghana suffer severe abuse and violation of their constitutional rights. In rural areas, women are still subject to burdensome labour conditions and traditional male dominance. Rape and domestic violence remains a significant problem in Ghana, as is female genital mutilation.
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  Gender in Motion. Tackling Gender Differences in Transport Needs, Access and Planning in Ghana

  University of Manchester, 1998

  This report on research in Ghana argues that gender is a missing link in approaches to transport use and planning. Women have more problems gaining access to transport than men, while transportation needs of men and women often differ. For instance public transport vehicles often fail to cater for women with dependent children.
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  Coming to Terms with Sexual Harassment in Ghana

  Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, 2004

  What measures need to be taken to change attitudes about sexual harassment in Ghana? The concept of sexual harassment is too often confused with courting or playful flirting. When it does receive attention, it is almost exclusively associated with the workplace.
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  Actual Women Situation in Ghana

  FeDDAF, West Africa, 2004

  What is the level of gender equality in Ghana? Although the Ghanaian Constitution recognises equality of all persons before the law and prohibits discrimination on grounds of sex and religion, women are still discriminated against.
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  State courts and the regulation of land disputes in Ghana: the litigants’ perspective

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper argues that Ghanaian litigants in land disputes favour authoritative state legal-institutions over out-of-court settlements.
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  The migration of physicians from sub-Saharan Africa to the United States of America: measures of the African brain drain

  Human Resources for Health, 2004

  This Human Resources for Health paper details the characteristics and trends in migration to the United States (US) of physicians trained in sub-Saharan Africa. Findings reveal that more than 23 per cent of US physicians were trained outside of the US, with a majority trained in low-income or lower middle-income countries.
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  Armed and aimless: armed groups, guns, and human security in the ECOWAS region

  Small Arms Survey, 2005

  This study looks at the armed groups and small arms in the 15 member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region. Armed groups in this report are defined as groups that have the capacity to challenge the state’s monopoly of legitimate force.
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  Health for some?: the effects of user fees in the Volta region of Ghana

  Health Policy and Planning, 1999

  This paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, reports findings from a 1996 study of user fees and exemptions for health services in the Volta region of Ghana. The study found that facility managers were very active in setting and collecting fees and in using the revenues to purchase essential inputs.

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