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Prevalent Poverty Case Study

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1.2 Problem Statement
Prevalent poverty is an enduring dilemma necessitating the incorporation of poverty alleviation as a key component in most development strategies over the past years. However, the various approaches and strategies adopted by the various governments in Ghana to deal with the problem have changed. Efforts were initially geared towards physical infrastructural development and later focused on human capital development in the 1970s. The emphasis gradually shifted toward decentralized decision-making, trade liberalization and economic reform and more recently on good governance. In spite of the progress made in addressing this dilemma, the problem however still remains.
Among the world poorest, Ghana is ranked 135 out of …show more content…

constraints facing small-scale fisheries in the study area; and
4. level of involvement and roles of gender in fish production.

1.5 Expected Outcomes/Justification of the Study and the Linkages to the METASIP Objectives
Poverty brings about a multitude of complications. Extreme hunger, malnutrition and starvation are a consequence of abject poverty which makes people especially children without access to health services and medications, vulnerable to escapable diseases such as dysentery, malaria, tuberculosis and cholera. As a result, death rates increase. Many people sometimes engage in acts that can expose them to deadly diseases such as HIV Aids. (eSchooltoday, 2010).
It is known that people living on less than one US dollar per day are more than one billion globally and out of this number, about 840 million people are classified as undernourished. Consequently, many development practitioners, academics, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), governments, and donor agencies have recently been re-focusing on poverty reduction and food security (FAO, …show more content…

Besides, the study will help government and other development agencies an opportunity to unearth the potential of small-scale fisheries. This will enable government to restructure its fishery policies in favour of small-scale fisheries in order to ensure food security and higher standard of living in fishing communities in Ghana.
The key findings from this study could also help to fine tune extension in such a way that the technical and socioeconomic constraints facing small-scale fisheries could be addressed. Such information would also suggest interventions that may provide room for and help to improve the efficiency of further research on small-scale fisheries.
Also, following the implementation of the Medium Term Agricultural Sector Investment Plan (METASIP), this study will go a long way to help the government achieve at least three of its objectives

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