Owusu Boampong
Biographic Data
| ID | 6565701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owusu Boampong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owusu |
| FAMILY NAME | Boampong |
| SIGNATURE | BOAMPONG O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Coast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Private Waste Collection in the Tema Metropolis, Ghana
The paper assessed the work of private formal actors in waste management and whether their service meets the objective of equitable spatial distribution to the communities they serve. We conducted interviews with public metropolitan actors, private waste management companies and their beneficiaries (household heads). Through interacting with the beneficiaries, we measured how effectively the private formal actors meet the equity objective in mana…
Effects of digital agriculture solutions on smallscale wage workers and employment
The study examined how the use of digital agriculture solutions affected farm worker pay and on-farm employment. Data gathered, was from 1,199 randomly sampled Small-scale farmers in the Bono East Region of Ghana. To account for potential selection bias resulting from unobservable factors that can influence the adoption of digital agriculture solutions, an endogenous switching regression model was employed. The results show that farmer demographi…
Commercial Surrogacy
The issues facing surrogates are labour issues. However, there is scanty literature on the working conditions of surrogates in sub-Saharan Africa. This article explores the labour conditions of these unprotected and invisible reproductive workers in Ghana. In-depth interviews were conducted with key informants between 2018 and 2019. The study revealed the following: 1) Baby agents were increasingly playing a dominant role in the surrogacy industr…
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
Globally, more than 60% of all workers work in the informal economy (ILO 2020). One sector, waste pickers, comprise 1–2% of workers in low- and middle-income countries, yet their vulnerabilities and contributions to the circular economy are poorly understood. The COVID-19 pandemic presents a valuable opportunity to evaluate the socio-economic precarity of waste pickers, the essentiality of their contributions to sustainability efforts, and the fr…
Innovation Policies and International Trade Rules
The possibilities for collective organization of informal port workers in Tema, Ghana
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The possibilities for collective organization of informal port workers in Tema, Ghana
Innovation Policies and International Trade Rules
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
Globally, more than 60% of all workers work in the informal economy (ILO 2020). One sector, waste pickers, comprise 1–2% of workers in low- and middle-income countries, yet their vulnerabilities and contributions to the circular economy are poorly understood. The COVID-19 pandemic presents a valuable opportunity to evaluate the socio-economic precarity of waste pickers, the essentiality of their contributions to sustainability efforts, and the fr…
Commercial Surrogacy
The issues facing surrogates are labour issues. However, there is scanty literature on the working conditions of surrogates in sub-Saharan Africa. This article explores the labour conditions of these unprotected and invisible reproductive workers in Ghana. In-depth interviews were conducted with key informants between 2018 and 2019. The study revealed the following: 1) Baby agents were increasingly playing a dominant role in the surrogacy industr…
Effects of digital agriculture solutions on smallscale wage workers and employment
The study examined how the use of digital agriculture solutions affected farm worker pay and on-farm employment. Data gathered, was from 1,199 randomly sampled Small-scale farmers in the Bono East Region of Ghana. To account for potential selection bias resulting from unobservable factors that can influence the adoption of digital agriculture solutions, an endogenous switching regression model was employed. The results show that farmer demographi…
Private Waste Collection in the Tema Metropolis, Ghana
The paper assessed the work of private formal actors in waste management and whether their service meets the objective of equitable spatial distribution to the communities they serve. We conducted interviews with public metropolitan actors, private waste management companies and their beneficiaries (household heads). Through interacting with the beneficiaries, we measured how effectively the private formal actors meet the equity objective in mana…
Business (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Market economy (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Agriculture (1 works) · Circular economy (1 works)