David Achanfuo Yeboah

Biographic Data

ID4015506
NAMEDavid Achanfuo Yeboah
GIVEN NAMESDavid Achanfuo
FAMILY NAMEYeboah
SIGNATUREYEBOAH D A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the West Indies
ORCID0000-0002-3404-0612
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS23
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX2

  • Super-diverse migrants-similar trajectories? Ghanaian entrepreneurship in the Netherlands seen from a Mixed Embeddedness perspective

    Open AccessRobert C Kloosterman, Katja Rusinovic et al.ARTICLENew Community2016Cited by: 14References: 34

    The Ghanaian population in the Netherlands is relatively well-endowed in terms of human capital. In addition, a large number of them came when deindustrialisation had run its course and the Dutch economy, the service sector in particular, started growing again after 1985. On the basis of the Mixed Embeddedness model, we expected that the combination of, on average, higher levels of human capital and the transformation of the (urban) economy, woul…

  • Gender Variations in Over-the-Counter Sale of Prescription Medicines in Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Open AccessDavid Achanfuo Yeboah, Tracey Maree Yeboah et al.ARTICLEArab Studies Quarterly2014

    Over-the-counter sale of medicines is endemic in Abu Dhabi, and all sorts of medicines can be purchased without the submission of a prescription (Yeboah, 2013). This study looks at the gender dimensions of the practice and examines the reasons given by pharmacists and their clients for the practice, emphasizing the specific differences between male and female respondents. The methodologies involve survey of pharmacists and their clients together …

  • Nature and Impact of Criminal Victimization in Barbados

    David Achanfuo Yeboah, Farley BrathwaiteARTICLEJournal of Ethnicity in Criminal…2007References: 9

    This article examines the nature and impact of crime through the survey of victims who reported crimes against them to the Barbados Police Force in 1998. The study shows that the victims reported serious concern about the high level of crime in Barbados. Further, the study found that concern about crime was influenced by many factors including the type of crime, age, gender, and occupation. In addition, the findings of the study pointed to physic…

  • Victims of crime in the criminal justice system in Barbados

    Open AccessFarley Brathwaite, David Achanfuo YeboahARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice2004Cited by: 2References: 8

  • The Provision of Family Planning Services in the Caribbean

    Open AccessDavid Achanfuo YeboahARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2002

    This article examines the provision of family planning services in selected countries in the Caribbean. The potential impact of the funding shortfall resulting from the phasing out of funding by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), and the strategies being adopted by the selected countries to cope with this, are considered. Stratified random sampling methods were employed to select eight Caribbean countries and a pre-designed q…

  • Crime and its solutions in Barbados

    Open AccessDavid Achanfuo YeboahARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice2002Cited by: 2References: 9

  • The evaluation of New Zealand's Habilitation Centre's Pilot Programme

    Open AccessDavid Yeboah, David Achanfuo YeboahARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice2000Cited by: 2References: 12

  • Grounding a Theory of African Migration in Recent Data on Ghana

    Open AccessDavid Achanfuo Yeboah, David Achanfuo-YeboahARTICLEInternational Sociology1993Cited by: 3References: 10

    A number of demographic, economic, socio-cultural and psychological factors determine the nature, pattern and direction of migration in Africa. Much of the existing literature tends to emphasise the economic motives for migration. However, it is becoming increasingly evident that socio-cultural and other non-economic factors are also very important, and that a realistic explanation of African migration should be multidisciplinary. This theory of …