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Gloria Essilfie; Joshua Sebu; Josephine Baako-Amponsah – SAGE Open, 2024
The study seeks to analyze the effect of women's empowerment on household food security in northern Ghana. Employing Random Effect and Generalized Estimating Equations on the two rounds of Feed the Future dataset, 2012 and 2015, the study measured women empowerment as the comparative years of schooling and decision making by women. Multivariate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empowerment, Females, Food
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Wolf, Sharon; Aber, J. Lawrence; Behrman, Jere R.; Peele, Morgan – Developmental Science, 2019
Preschool programs have expanded rapidly in low- and middle-income countries, but there are widespread concerns about whether they are of sufficient quality to promote children's learning and development. We conducted a large school-randomized control trial ('Quality Preschool for Ghana' -- QP4G) of a one-year teacher training and coaching…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Akaguri, Luke – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
The paper uses data from a household survey of three rural communities and interviews in the Mfantseman Municipality in the Central Region of Ghana to investigate the costs incurred by households that choose either fee-free public schools or low-fee private schools. The paper shows that both provisions impose costs that place those with lower…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Community Surveys, Student Costs
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Kwapong, Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2008
Using rural household survey data collected from 1000 female household heads selected from all the ten administrative regions in Ghana, this paper explored the policy implications for using ICTs for empowerment of rural women. A contingent valuation (CV) method was used to quantitatively estimate the influence of selected socio-economic factors on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Surveys, Females, Rural Areas