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Corruption and air pollution: a comparative study of African and OECD countries
This study explored the association between corruption and air pollution in African and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. On the one hand, from eliminating poverty and...
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Job Insecurity and Life Satisfaction in Ghana
How labour market outcomes influence the life satisfaction of people have been studied by many scholars. In particular, prior studies have examined how perceived risk of losing one’s job affects one’s life sat...
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International Remittances and Subjective Wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Micro-level Study
According to United Nations reports, in 2017, there were about 24.6 million Africans living outside of Africa. As a corollary, remittances to the continent have increased tremendously, exceeding official devel...
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An Exploratory Study of the Influence of Attitudes toward Animal Welfare on Meat Consumption in Ghana
Meat is an important source of nutrients for human health and wellbeing. However, because meat intake is reportedly linked to diseases such as obesity, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and other health problems...
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Are Happier People More Willing to Make Income Sacrifices to Protect the Environment?
There is considerable amount of debate about the effect of affluence on environmental concern. The empirical literature is inconclusive on this debate. Increasingly, more studies are examining individual level...
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An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being in Ghana
This paper uses data from the 2012 Afrobarometer Surveys to empirically investigate the relationship between social capital and subjective well-being (SWB) in Ghana. Two measures of SWB are examined—absolute S...
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The Effect of Fear of Crime and Crime Victimization on Subjective Well-Being in Africa
A relatively limited number of studies have examined the effect of fear of crime and crime victimization on subjective well-being. This paper examines how fear of crime and crime victimization affect the well-...
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Case studies on smallholder farmer voice: an introduction to a special symposium
In the spring of 2013, project leaders who received funding from the John Templeton Foundation’s program “Can GM Crops Help to Feed the World?” met in England to discuss progress on funded projects and to iden...