Has Globalization Failed to Alleviate Poverty in Sub‐Saharan Africa?

L’Huillier, Barbara

doi:10.1002/pop4.158

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“…From 2000 onwards poverty reduction is part of the MDG’s and currently the SDG’s, in which it is approached as a rights-based issue (Cobbinah et al, 2013 ). It should be noted here that there is significant debate on how poverty should be defined and measured (L’Huillier, 2016 ). While there is evidence that percentages of absolute poverty have reduced in the past decades (World Bank, 2019 ) - e.g.…”

Section: How Transformation Happened (Or Not) In the Past: Understanding The Persistence Of Povertymentioning

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How food systems change (or not): governance implications for system transformation processes

2021

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This paper argues that supporting food system transformation requires more than obtaining science-based understanding and analysis of how components in the system interact. We argue that changing the emergent properties of food systems (what we call food system synthesis) is a socio-political challenge that is affected by competing views regarding system boundaries and purposes, and limited possibilities for central steering and control. We point to different traditions of ‘systems thinking’ that each emphasize particular types of interventions for achieving system change, and argue that food systems are best looked at as complex multi-dimensional systems. This implies that we need to move beyond rational engineering approaches to system change, and look for approaches that anticipate and accommodate inherent social tensions and struggles in processes of changing food system dynamics and outcomes. Through a case study on the persistence of an undesired emergent property of food systems (i.e. poverty) we demonstrate that a multi-level perspective (MLP) on system transformation is useful in understanding both how food system transformation has happened in the past, and how desirable transformations is prevented from happening today. Based on such insights we point to key governance strategies and principles that may be used to influence food system transformation as a non-linear and long-term process of competition, negotiation and reconfiguration. Such strategies include the creation and nurturing of diversity in the system, as well as process interventions aimed at visioning, destabilization and formation of discourse coalitions. Such governance interventions imply a considerable re-orientation of investments in food system transformation as well as a rethinking of the role that policy-makers may play in either altering or reproducing undesirable system outcomes.

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How food systems change (or not): governance implications for system transformation processes

2021

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“…It is estimated that more than half of the world’s impoverished people live in Sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank, 2014). Statistics have it that over 413 million people in the world live on less than US$1.90 a day in 2015, and more than half of this figure live in the Sub- Saharan regions (L’Huillier, 2016). If this trend continues, by 2030, approximately 9 out of 10 extreme poor will be in this region (L’Huillier, 2016; World Bank, 2014).…”

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Investigating the Relationship Between Local Business and Employment Creation for Poverty Reduction in Northern Ghana: The Moderating Role of Local Economic Development (LED) Policy

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In the past few decades, the local economic development (LED) policy has gained prominence in Ghana as an effective bottom-up approach for poverty reduction and rural development. Adopting this bottom-up approach to reducing poverty, this paper investigates the impact of local business and local employment creation on poverty reduction in Ghana by employing the moderating role of LED policy. Data were obtained through an online survey platform from 357 respondents from local government officials working within the various districts across the northern parts of Ghana. The study used structural equation model analytical tool to examine the relationships between the variables. The findings affirmed both local business and local employment creation as positive determinants of poverty reduction. Also, employing LED policy as a moderator, local business creation plays the most significant role in reducing poverty at a 1% significant level. However, the moderating role of LED policy between local employment and poverty reduction was insignificant. Also, local employment insignificantly mediated local business and poverty reduction. Therefore, there is a need for development actors at local and international levels to collectively make a continuous effort to drive the local economic development policy agenda. This can be done through the promotion of local businesses creation to improve standards of living and reduce poverty to the lowest level in Ghana and other developing countries at large.

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Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak caused by contaminated chocolate highlights the importance of food hygiene and a socially responsible food chain

Korkeala,

Koskela,

Jalava

2024

Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances

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Has Globalization Failed to Alleviate Poverty in Sub‐Saharan Africa?

Cited by 3 publications

References 64 publications

How food systems change (or not): governance implications for system transformation processes

How food systems change (or not): governance implications for system transformation processes

Investigating the Relationship Between Local Business and Employment Creation for Poverty Reduction in Northern Ghana: The Moderating Role of Local Economic Development (LED) Policy

Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak caused by contaminated chocolate highlights the importance of food hygiene and a socially responsible food chain

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