Internal Migration and Household Consumption in Ghana

Over the past two decades Ghana has seen a rapid increase in internal migration. Census data show that internal migration increased from 38.6 percent to 43.3 percent between 2000 and 2010. According to the latest Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS) 2012/13, half of the migrants surveyed had migrated...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ranzani, Marco, Pavelesku, Dan
Format: Brief
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22728
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Summary:Over the past two decades Ghana has seen a rapid increase in internal migration. Census data show that internal migration increased from 38.6 percent to 43.3 percent between 2000 and 2010. According to the latest Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS) 2012/13, half of the migrants surveyed had migrated after 2003.