Social Networks in Ghana

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorUdry, C. R.en
dc.contributor.authorConley, T. G.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialGhanaen
dc.coverage.spatialWest Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:29:30Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:29:30Zen
dc.date.issued2004en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractBeginning in the 1990s, the Eastern Region of Ghana has transitioned from production of local foodstuffs to commercial production of pineapple for export to Europe. The economic changes caused by this shift are influenced by a number of factors. These include the social networks concerned with capital, information, and influence. Interviews, agricultural activity questionnaires, modules, soil fertility analyses, GIS mapping of fields, and plot history and rights questionnaires were administered to sixty couples or triples in four different villages and used to uncover the connections within the villages. The authors acknowledge the limits of the questionnaires for this task and suggest the use of an equilibrium model of multi-dimensional network formation in future research.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier5571en
dc.identifier.citationYale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 888en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/69960en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherNew Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Pressen
dc.relation.urihttp://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=555699en
dc.relation.urihttp://ssrn.com/abstract=555699en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSocial learningen
dc.subjectEndogenous networksen
dc.subjectInformal crediten
dc.titleSocial Networks in Ghanaen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

Files

Collections

Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebase