ABSTRACT
This study sought to examine the effect of household social spending on
welfare in the light of both present and future poverty analyses using the quantitative
approach. Ghana Statistical Service’s Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS)
fourth, fifth and sixth waves were used in the study. Final sample sizes of 5,556,
7,759 and 15,568 for the fourth, fifth and sixth rounds respectively were analysed.
The study found in its first objective that very poor households benefited more in
terms of welfare than non-poor households and that the difference in the effect of
social spending widens between the poorest and other households, moving towards
higher levels of welfare. On the other hand, vulnerability to poverty estimates
showed that, for all three rounds of the GLSS, all households suffer poverty in
the future and it is severe for very poor households. Moreover, the study found that
as households have higher inclination towards unilateral social support, the more it
reduced welfare and thus resulted in rising vulnerability to expected poverty for all
households. This was true for all objects of social support.
Two key policy recommendations were made. First, informal sensitisation
programmes by public agencies like the National Commission for Civic Education
(NCCE) and NGOs should be organised to campaign against rising social spending
and its effect on future poverty, since formal education was found to have rather
increased social spending. Second, the traditional authorities may formulate
policies to set guidelines for the indicative costs of organising and running social
events aimed at combating the rising social spending as has been done by the
governments of Tajikistan and India.
NKRUMAH, R (2021). Household Social Spending And Welfare: Empirical Evidence From Ghana. Afribary. Retrieved from https://tracking.afribary.com/works/household-social-spending-and-welfare-empirical-evidence-from-ghana
NKRUMAH, RICHARD "Household Social Spending And Welfare: Empirical Evidence From Ghana" Afribary. Afribary, 05 Apr. 2021, https://tracking.afribary.com/works/household-social-spending-and-welfare-empirical-evidence-from-ghana. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
NKRUMAH, RICHARD . "Household Social Spending And Welfare: Empirical Evidence From Ghana". Afribary, Afribary, 05 Apr. 2021. Web. 13 Nov. 2024. < https://tracking.afribary.com/works/household-social-spending-and-welfare-empirical-evidence-from-ghana >.
NKRUMAH, RICHARD . "Household Social Spending And Welfare: Empirical Evidence From Ghana" Afribary (2021). Accessed November 13, 2024. https://tracking.afribary.com/works/household-social-spending-and-welfare-empirical-evidence-from-ghana