Promoting a geography of opportunity in Accra, Ghana: Applying lessons from mixed-income development successes and shortcomings

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dc.contributor.authorJoseph, M.L.
dc.contributor.authorArthur, I.K.
dc.contributor.authorBotchway, E.K.
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-28T11:11:42Z
dc.date.available2022-06-28T11:11:42Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractUrban poverty in both the developed and developing world is often spatially organized with deprivation highly concentrated in segregated areas of cities. With the rapid urbanization and lack of effective urban planning in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa, segregation, economic deprivation and social exclusion are particularly severe challenges. In the United States, almost 30 years of poverty deconcentration policy has had mixed results and offers cautions to other countries looking to confront urban segregation. Accra, the capital city of Ghana, offers an intriguing example of a city with substantial clusters of poverty and slum areas, but also some neighborhoods with high existing levels of economic integration. Drawing on the theoretical and empirical context of poverty deconcentration efforts in the United States, this paper presents a conceptual framework with two alternative pathways for urban development: an inclusionary pathway and an exclusionary pathway. We use this framework to review and critique Ghana’s existing urban policy and offer implications for inclusionary urban policy in Accra and other similar cities in developing countries.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2027780
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/38162
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Groupen_US
dc.subjectSegregationen_US
dc.subjecturban povertyen_US
dc.subjecturbanizationen_US
dc.subjectsocial exclusionen_US
dc.subjectsocial mixen_US
dc.subjectmixed incomeen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.titlePromoting a geography of opportunity in Accra, Ghana: Applying lessons from mixed-income development successes and shortcomingsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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