| Notes: What do the livelihoods of the poor look like in urban, peri-urban and rural Ghana? What are the current poverty trends, and what are the key poverty issues of the poor? How is poverty in Ghana defined and who is doing the defining? This desk review by Ashong and Rider Smith, produced as part of wider research by DFID in Ghana, brings together a number of existing poverty assessments and surveys under a livelihoods framework. It uses the main elements of livelihoods analysis to fill the gaps in existing understanding of poverty, and to assess the role different factors play in causing it. Causes of poverty and vulnerability are found to differ in rural and urban areas. The institutions considered important for livelihood support by poor people also differ accordingly. Information is drawn from the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS), the World Banks "Ghana Social Assessment" (GSA), the Ghana Statistical Services "Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire" (CWIQ, the "Consultations With The Poor" survey (CWTP) and the findings of the DFID Project ("Further Knowledge of Livelihoods affected by Urban Transition, Kumasi, Ghana") of which the paper is a part.
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