Trees play multiple roles for rural households, providing significant economic and ecological benefits. With trees, households can sell wood for fuel and construction materials, for example, or non…

Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently used in Ghana, have become useful in providing quantitative measures of welfare…

Female-owned businesses continue to be smaller and less profitable than male-owned firms. We conduct an RCT in Ghana on a sample of 1,771 growth-oriented female entrepreneurs to investigate the effect…

Structural transformation in rural spaces in developing economies remains elusive. Although the agricultural sector in Africa has often been viewed as a critical sector with the potential to provide…

Ghana-s current youth unemployment rate is 19.7%, and the country faces a significant youth unemployment problem. While a range of youth-employment programs have been created over the years, no…

The major aim of this study is to investigate the impact of foreign aid on Uganda’s economic growth for the period 1980 - 2012 using secondary time series obtained from World Bank (2014) development...

Assessing progress on sustainability in fisheries presents an urgent need to evaluate how management reforms interact with fishing communities to not only assure the health of the fish stock, but also…

Parks and nature reserves created for conservation often become forest islands in a matrix of other land uses. Their species populations often decline due to this forest fragmentation. There is…

Smallholder farms in Tanzania rely on wild pollinators, but there are drastic changes in land use which result in the reduction of wild pollinators’ natural habitat, that is, forests. Our interest is…