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标题：Economic Empowerment of Rural Women in Northern Ghana Throgh Indigenous Rural Enterprises
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作者：Vincent Abankwah ; Martina Abebe
期刊名称：The Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (JSDA)
电子版ISSN：1520-5509
出版年度：2011
卷号：13
期号：2
出版社：Institute of Sustainable Development in Africa
摘要：Women in Northern Ghana are engaged in unpaid family labor which makes them financially handicapped yet they remain a major force behind the upkeep of their households as their husbands do little about the development of the households. This study sought to identify the most lucrative indigenous rural enterprises that can financially empower women in Northern Ghana to promote development of their households. Twelve communities in the Nadowli District were purposively sampled. Ten households in each of the selected communities were randomly selected for the study. The study revealed that most of the women were illiterates and as a result were not absorbed into formal employment. They earned incomes from indigenous rural enterprises which were far lower than their expenditures. The indigenous rural enterprises identified were dawadawa processing (fermented dried seeds of the African locust bean Parkia biglobosa, usually pressed into balls to prepare condiment very rich in protein and used as a natural sauce for preparing stews, soups, barbecue etc.), shea butter extraction, charcoal burning, pito brewing, and groundnut production. A combination of dawadawa processing and groundnut production was found to be the most lucrative venture followed by a combination of dawadawa processing, groundnut production and charcoal burning, then dawadawa processing and sheabutter extraction. The single most lucrative indigenous rural enterprise was dawadawa processing followed by pito brewing. Very few women, however, were found to be engaged in these lucrative enterprises. It could be concluded that the women could not raise enough revenue from their economic activities due to their inability to identify the most lucrative combination of indigenous rural enterprises
关键词：Keywords: Northern Rural Ghana; Indigenous Rural Enterprises; Benefit-Cost; Sensitivity Analyses; Dawadawa