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Title: ADOPTION OF GREEN REVOLUTION SERVICES AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN GHANA
Authors: Donkoh, S. A.
Tiffin, R.
Srinivasan, C.
Keywords: Green Revolution
Technology adoption
Poverty
Selectivity bias
Issue Date: 2009
Publisher: University for Development Studies
Series/Report no.: Vol. 6;Issue 1
Abstract: In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) the technological advances of the Green Revolution (GR) have not been very successful. However, the efforts being made to re-introduce the revolution call for more socio-economic research into the adoption and the effects of the new technologies. The paper discusses an investigation on the effects of GR technology adoption on poverty among households in Ghana. Maximum likelihood estimation of a poverty model within the framework of Heckman's two stage method of correcting for sample selection was employed. Technology adoption was found to have positive effects in reducing poverty. Other factors that reduce poverty include education, credit, durable assets, living in the forest belt and in the south of the country. Technology adoption itself was also facilitated by education, credit, non-farm income and household labour supply as well as living in urban centres. In-arguably, technology adoption can be taken seriously by increasing the levels of complementary inputs such as credit, extension services and infrastructure. Above all, the fundamental problems of illiteracy, inequality and lack of effective markets must be addressed through increasing the levels of formal and non-formal education, equitable distribution of the 'national cake' and a more pragmatic management of the ongoing Structural Adjustment Programme.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/873
ISSN: 0855-6768
Appears in Collections:Ghana Journal of Development Studies (GJDS)

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