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Infrastructure Access and Household Welfare in Rural Ghana

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  • Emmanuel Joseph Mensah
  • Marilyne Huchet-Bourdon
  • Laure Latruffe

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type="main" xml:lang="en"> Empirical evidence in the literature on the extent to which access to different infrastructure services contribute to enhancing household economic welfare remains limited. Our paper contributes to fill in the gap by assessing the influence of access to public infrastructure on welfare in rural areas of a developing country such as Ghana, taking into account the heterogeneity in household endowment. Based on pseudo panel modelling and using three waves of nation-wide household living standard surveys between 1991 and 2006, the empirical findings suggest that access to public transport, electricity and water infrastructure has important but differential impacts on household welfare.

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  • Emmanuel Joseph Mensah & Marilyne Huchet-Bourdon & Laure Latruffe, 2014. "Infrastructure Access and Household Welfare in Rural Ghana," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 26(3), pages 508-519, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:afrdev:v:26:y:2014:i:3:p:508-519
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    1. Mensah, Emmanuel Joseph, 2011. "The Sustainable Livelihood Framework: A Reconstruction," MPRA Paper 46733, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Paul Terhemba Iorember & Gylych Jelilov, 2018. "Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Increase in Government Agricultural Expenditure on Household Welfare in Nigeria," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 30(4), pages 362-371, December.
    3. Oyakhilome Ibhagui, 2019. "Government Spending Patterns and the Real Exchange Rate in Sub‐Saharan Africa," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 31(3), pages 335-347, September.
    4. Sedai, Ashish Kumar & Vasudevan, Ramaa & Pena, Anita Alves & Miller, Ray, 2021. "Does reliable electrification reduce gender differences? Evidence from India," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 185(C), pages 580-601.
    5. Emmanuel Olusegun STOBER, 2016. "Stomach Infrastructure: Lessons for Democracy and Good Governance," Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy, College of Management, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, vol. 4(3), pages 449-460, September.
    6. Megbowon Ebenezer Toyin, 2018. "Multidimensional Poverty Analysis of Urban and Rural Households in South Africa," Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Oeconomica, Sciendo, vol. 63(1), pages 3-19, April.

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