Alhassan Abdul‐wakeel Karakara
Biographic Data
| ID | 4451540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alhassan Abdul‐wakeel Karakara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alhassan Abdul‐wakeel |
| FAMILY NAME | Karakara |
| SIGNATURE | KARAKARA A A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Coast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7378-1678 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An analysis of livelihood changes following the Appiatse chemical explosion disaster in Ghana
This paper looks at the livelihood changes experienced by the people of Appiatse following a devastating chemical explosion on January 20, 2022. The explosion, triggered by a collision involving a truck carrying explosives, caused widespread destruction in their community, displacing households, destroying infrastructure, and severely disrupting the town’s socioeconomic activities. Hitherto, the community was heavily dependent on agriculture, sma…
Financing green growth in African emerging economies: Opportunities and challenges
Within the context of the SDGs, this paper explores the green growth financing market in Africa and provides a basis for empirical analysis. The desire to achieve 2050 net-zero emission targets demands extensive investment in climate mitigation means that Africa requires about US$2 trillion by 2030 to mitigate climate change. African Development Bank offers a huge market for green and social financing through its Green Bond Program. The questions…
A Threshold Effect Analysis of Households' Ability to Maintain Economic Welfare: Rural–Urban Dichotomy in Ghana
This study examines the ability of households to maintain economic welfare and the threshold at which it occurs. We use the Mobile Financial Service Survey (MFSS) data comprising a probability sampling of all Ghanaian households for the econometric analysis. Also, we engage two waves of the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS 6 & 7) and the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS 2008 & 2014) to analyze household poverty trends. Using multinomial logis…
Green economy and food security in Africa
Assessing the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (Leap) program as a conditional income transfer: A search for a conceptual framework
Purpose Ghana has implemented different kinds of pro-poor program and policies since its independence to reduce poverty. The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) is one of such program. LEAP is a social cash transfer program and its implementation has been under the auspices of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection since 2008. It provides direct cash and health insurance coverage for extremely poor households across the …
Smallholders in agro-industrial production: Lessons for rural development from a comparative analysis of Ghana’s and Indonesia’s oil palm sectors
By successfully including smallholders, the oil palm boom in Southeast Asia has contributed significantly to rural economic development and poverty alleviation, notwithstanding its huge environmental costs. Oil palm production in other world regions is currently picking up, including in Africa. Yet it is uncertain whether the positive socioeconomic impacts from Southeast Asia can be replicated elsewhere. Little development gain may thus accompany…
Farmers’ choice of adaptation strategies towards weather variability: Empirical evidence from the three agro-ecological zones in Ghana
This study analyzed factors that influence farmers’ choice of adaptation strategies toward weather variability and food crop production. The study used a cross-sectional data from 622 randomly selected farmers from 18 Villages across the three major agro-ecological zones using structured questionnaire. The study hypothesized that farm characteristics, climatic variables and extreme weather events had no significant influence on farmers’ choice of…
Households' ICT access and bank patronage in West Africa: Empirical insights from Burkina Faso and Ghana
Households' ICT access and bank patronage in West Africa: Empirical insights from Burkina Faso and Ghana
Smallholders in agro-industrial production: Lessons for rural development from a comparative analysis of Ghana’s and Indonesia’s oil palm sectors
By successfully including smallholders, the oil palm boom in Southeast Asia has contributed significantly to rural economic development and poverty alleviation, notwithstanding its huge environmental costs. Oil palm production in other world regions is currently picking up, including in Africa. Yet it is uncertain whether the positive socioeconomic impacts from Southeast Asia can be replicated elsewhere. Little development gain may thus accompany…
Households' ICT access and bank patronage in West Africa: Empirical insights from Burkina Faso and Ghana
Farmers’ choice of adaptation strategies towards weather variability: Empirical evidence from the three agro-ecological zones in Ghana
This study analyzed factors that influence farmers’ choice of adaptation strategies toward weather variability and food crop production. The study used a cross-sectional data from 622 randomly selected farmers from 18 Villages across the three major agro-ecological zones using structured questionnaire. The study hypothesized that farm characteristics, climatic variables and extreme weather events had no significant influence on farmers’ choice of…
Assessing the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (Leap) program as a conditional income transfer: A search for a conceptual framework
Purpose Ghana has implemented different kinds of pro-poor program and policies since its independence to reduce poverty. The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) is one of such program. LEAP is a social cash transfer program and its implementation has been under the auspices of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection since 2008. It provides direct cash and health insurance coverage for extremely poor households across the …
Smallholders in agro-industrial production: Lessons for rural development from a comparative analysis of Ghana’s and Indonesia’s oil palm sectors
By successfully including smallholders, the oil palm boom in Southeast Asia has contributed significantly to rural economic development and poverty alleviation, notwithstanding its huge environmental costs. Oil palm production in other world regions is currently picking up, including in Africa. Yet it is uncertain whether the positive socioeconomic impacts from Southeast Asia can be replicated elsewhere. Little development gain may thus accompany…
Green economy and food security in Africa
A Threshold Effect Analysis of Households' Ability to Maintain Economic Welfare: Rural–Urban Dichotomy in Ghana
This study examines the ability of households to maintain economic welfare and the threshold at which it occurs. We use the Mobile Financial Service Survey (MFSS) data comprising a probability sampling of all Ghanaian households for the econometric analysis. Also, we engage two waves of the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS 6 & 7) and the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS 2008 & 2014) to analyze household poverty trends. Using multinomial logis…
An analysis of livelihood changes following the Appiatse chemical explosion disaster in Ghana
This paper looks at the livelihood changes experienced by the people of Appiatse following a devastating chemical explosion on January 20, 2022. The explosion, triggered by a collision involving a truck carrying explosives, caused widespread destruction in their community, displacing households, destroying infrastructure, and severely disrupting the town’s socioeconomic activities. Hitherto, the community was heavily dependent on agriculture, sma…
Financing green growth in African emerging economies: Opportunities and challenges
Within the context of the SDGs, this paper explores the green growth financing market in Africa and provides a basis for empirical analysis. The desire to achieve 2050 net-zero emission targets demands extensive investment in climate mitigation means that Africa requires about US$2 trillion by 2030 to mitigate climate change. African Development Bank offers a huge market for green and social financing through its Green Bond Program. The questions…
Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Poverty (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (3 works) · Agricultural economics (2 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (2 works) · Economic Growth and Development (2 works)