'Wo benanε a εyε bebree': The economic impact of remittances of Netherlands-based Ghanaian migrants on rural Ashanti

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 85-97

  Kabki, Mirjam ^a   Mazzucato, Valentina ^a,b   Appiah, Ernest ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Culture; Development; Economy; Ghana; Migration; Remittances; Rural Ashanti; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL ECONOMY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

AFRICA; ASHANTI; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 4644300386     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.323     Document Type: Article

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