[图书][B] Global migration beyond limits: Ecology, economics, and political economy

F Obeng-Odoom - 2022 - books.google.com
" Global Migration beyond Limits carefully considers but ultimately rejects the idea that
migration is driven by the choices of individual migrants, and instead starts from the idea that …

Urban planning and public policy responses to the management of COVID-19 in Ghana

D Anaafo, E Owusu-Addo, SA Takyi - Cities & health, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The global COVID-19 pandemic, with its associated issues of isolation, enhanced hygiene
practices and contact tracing brought up a number of issues to the public domain, many of …

Secondary cities at the residential housing frontier: Examining the determinants of private renters' residential satisfaction in Ghana

SL Mensah, SA Okyere, LK Frimpong, AB Asiedu… - Habitat International, 2025 - Elsevier
Decades of political ambivalence, housing injustice, and a neoliberal housing sector aided
by the government's lax approach to housing provision have meant that, private rental …

Advance rent mobilisation strategies of graduate renters in Ghana: a submarket of the private rental housing market

LA Asante, RJ Ehwi, EK Gavu - Journal of Housing and the Built …, 2022 - Springer
The practice of advance rent, where landlords ask renters to pay a lump-sum rent covering 2
or more years, is gaining scholarly and political attention in Africa. Nevertheless, there is …

Dealing with COVID-19 in Ghanaian urban shared low-income housing: What it reveals and the planning implications

IA Addo, D Atobrah, M Frehiwot, BK Kwansa - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Compound and shared low-income houses in Ghana have economic, social, cultural, and
familial advantages. Yet, COVID-19 and its related lockdown and home confinement in two …

Housing finance strategies for low-Income households in secondary cities: contextualization under customary tenure in Ghana

D Adade, ED Kuusaana, W Timo de Vries… - Housing Policy …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
High mortgage repayment-to-income ratios and unavailability of adequate and secured
collateral are major setbacks for low-income households in accessing housing finance. This …

Differentiation under capitalism: Genesis and consequences of the rent gap

C Liu, Y Deng, W Song, Q Wu… - … and Planning A …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Uneven development theory and its corollary (ie rent-gap theory) are either excessively
general or insufficiently flexible to expound the variations of gentrification with unique …

Understanding the norms and difficulties with advance rent payments in Ghana

RJ Ehwi, LA Asante, EK Gavu - International Journal of Urban …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The prevailing norm in Ghana's rental housing market involves a mandatory and recurrent
advance rent payment of two years or more by renters to their landlords. This paper employs …

Design optimisation for embodied carbon and thermal performance of a courtyard house in the warm–humid climate of Ghana

MN Addy, B Ateko, BM Roberts, D Opoku… - Architectural …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Increasing global temperature points to the need to combat the intense heat in tropical
regions. Mechanical cooling systems are one of the main ways to address this challenge …

Towards a well-informed rental housing policy in Ghana: differentiating between critics and non-critics of the rent advance system

RJ Ehwi, LA Asante, EK Gavu - International Journal of Housing …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose In Ghana, the practice of landlords demanding that renters pay rent advance (RA)
of between six months and five years is well noted. Surprisingly, renters appear divided into …