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JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Volume 42, Issue 2, Pages 278-300Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00220380500405410
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This paper explores local poverty and wealth inequality in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana in the period from 1975-89. Land was not scarce and the social management of household membership and household tabour were critical to household security, but this social management was not independent of wealth status. There was a virtuous circle between wealth and household labour supply and a vicious circle between poverty and small household size. Poverty traps existed so that those with too little tabour and too little wealth engaged in strategies which entrenched them in poverty.
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