Dr. Thomas Yeboah

Research Fellow


Research Areas/Interests

Migration and Development Children and Youth Labour Mobility (Migration Journeys, Decision making , and Lived Experiences ) Youth Employment, Imagine...~more


Publications

    BOOK CHAPTERS

    Sumberg, J., Flynn, J., Oosterom, K., Yeboah, T., Crossouard, B., and Thorsen, D. (2021) African Youth and the Rural Economy: Points of Departure. in Sumberg, J. (eds). Youth and the Rural Economy in Africa: Hard Work and Hazard, (pp. 1-17). CAB International, Oxfordshire, UK. ISBN-13: 978 1 78924 501 1 9

    Thorsen, D., and Yeboah, T. (2021). Mobility and the rural landscape of opportunity. in Sumberg, J. (eds), Hard Work and Hazard: Youth and the Rural Economy in Africa: Hard Work and Hazard, (pp. 78-89). CAB International, Oxfordshire, UK, ISBN-13: 978 1 78924 501 1

    Yeboah, T., Crossouard, B and Flynn, J (2021). Young people’s imagined futures. in Sumberg, J. (eds), Youth and the Rural Economy in Africa: Hard Work and Hazard, (155-169), CAB International, Oxfordshire, UK, ISBN-13: 978 1 78924 501 1

     Sumberg, J., Szyp, C., Yeboah, T., Marjoke Oosterom, M., Crossouard, B and Chamberlin, J (forthcoming) Young people and the rural economy: synthesis and implications. in Sumberg, J. (eds), Youth and the Rural Economy in Africa: Hard Work and Hazard. (pp 173-181) CAB International, Oxfordshire, UK. ISBN-13: 978 1 78924 501 1

     

    PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 

    2020-2021

    Osei, L., Yeboah, T., Kumi, E., & Antoh, E. F. (2021). Government's ban on Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining, youth livelihoods and imagined futures in Ghana. Resources Policy71, 102008.

     Yeboah, T. Kandilege, L., Bisong, M., Garba., F. and Teye, J. K. (2020). The ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol and Diversity of Experiences of Different Categories of Migrants: A qualitative study. International Migration   https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12766

     Yeboah, T., Chigumira, E. Innocensiah, J., Anyidoho, N.A., Manyong, V.M. Flyn J., and Sumberg, J., (2020). Hard work and hazards: young people and agricultural commercialisation in Africa. Journal of Rural Studies. 76, 142-151

     Yeboah, T. (2020). Future aspirations of rural-urban young migrants in Accra, Ghana. Children’s Geographies. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2020.1737643

    Kumi, E., Yeboah, T., & Kumi, Y. A. (2020). Private sector participation in advancing the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Ghana: Experiences from the mining and telecommunications sectors. The Extractive Industries and Society. 7(1) 181-190

     

    2018-2019

    Yeboah, T., Boamah, E. F., & Appai, T. P. (2019). Broadening the Remittance Debate: Reverse Flows, Reciprocity and Social Relations Between UK-Based Ghanaian Migrants and Families Back Home. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1-22.

     Owusu, L., & Yeboah, T. (2018). Living conditions and social determinants of healthcare inequities affecting female migrants in Ghana. GeoJournal, 83(5), 1005-1017.

     Arnot, M., Casely-Hayford, L., and Yeboah, T (2018). Post-Colonial Dilemmas in the Construction of Ghanaian Citizenship Education: national unity, human rights and social inequality, International Journal of Educational Development 61, 117-126

     

    2017

     Yeboah, T. (2017). Navigating precarious employment: social networks among migrant youth in Ghana. IDS Bulletin, 48(3), 79-94

     Yeboah, T., Sumberg, J., Flynn, J., and Anyidoho, N. A. (2017) ‘Perspectives on desirable work: Findings from a Q study with students and parents in rural Ghana’, The European Journal of Development Research, 29(2), 423-440

    Yeboah, T., and Appai, T.P (2017). ‘Does knowledge of modern contraceptives and sexually transmitted infections affect contraceptive use and sexual behaviour? Evidence from senior high school girls in the Akuapem North Municipality’, Ghana’, Geojournal, 82(1), 9-21

     Frimpong Boamah, E. Osei, D., and Yeboah, T. (2017). ‘Beyond Patriotic Discourse in Financing the SDGs: an “Investment-linked” Diaspora Revenue Bonds Model for SSA’, Development in Practice 27(4), 555-574, DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2017.1310184

     Sumberg, J., Yeboah, T., Flynn J., and Anyidoho, N.A. (2017). Young people’s perspectives on farming in Ghana: a Q study, Food Security, 9(1), 151-161

     Kumi, E., Muazu, I., and Yeboah, T., (2017). Aid, aid volatility and sectoral growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does Finance Matter? African Journal of Business, 4, 435-456

     

    2016

    Bembir, P., Yeboah, T. and Arhin, A.A. (2016) ‘Towards maximising skilled migration for development in Ghana’, International Journal of Migration and Residential Mobility, 1(3), 233–252.

     Agyei, Y.A., Kumi, E. and Yeboah, T. (2016). ‘Is better to be a Kayayei than to be unemployed:         reflecting          on        the        role      of            head     portering in Ghana’s informal economy’, GeoJournal, 81(2) 293–318

     Serbeh, R., Adjei, P.O. W., and Yeboah, T. (2016) ‘Internal Migration and Poverty Reduction: Rethinking the Debate on the North-South Movement in Ghana’ Journal of Social Sciences, 12(1), 42-54

     Yeboah, T. and Jagri, F. (2016) “We want financial accountability”: deconstructing tensions of community participation in CHPS, Ghana, Development in Practice, 26(6), 764-780, DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2016.1201048

     2015

    Debrah, I.O Yeboah, T., and Boafo, J. (2015) ‘Development for whom? Emerging donors and Africa’s Future’, African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development 4(4), 308-327

     Yeboah, T., Kumi, E. and Arhin, A.A (2015). ‘Do microfinance schemes shape gender relations in developing countries? Insights from a critical review of the literature’, International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies,1(2), 135-156

     Yeboah, T., Arhin, A.A., Kumi, E., and Owusu, L. (2015). ‘Empowering and Shaping Gender Relations? Contesting the Microfinance-Gender Empowerment Discourse’, Development in Practice, 25 (6), 895-908

     Muazu, I., Kumi, E. and Yeboah, T., (2015). ‘Greasing or Sanding the Wheels? Effect of Corruption on Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa’, African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development 4(2) 157-173

     Yeboah, T., Serbeh, R. and Bembir, P. (2015).Omission of Men from Gender-Development Theory and Praxis: A pathway for addressing the plights of Women?’ Journal of Social Science 11(1), 7-19

     Yeboah, T., Kumi, E., Arhin, A.A., and Owusu, L. (2015) ‘Fighting Poverty from the street: Perspectives of Some Female Informal Sector Workers on Gendered Poverty and Livelihood Portfolios in Southern Ghana’, Journal of Economic and Social Studies, 5 (1) 239-267

     

       2012-2014

    Muazu, I and Yeboah T, (2014.) ‘Combating poverty towards actualizing the MDGs and Beyond: Do Cash Transfer Add up to the Agenda?’, Journal of Economic and Social Studies, 4(2) 101-132

     Kumi, E., Arhin, A.A., and Yeboah, T. (2014) ‘Can Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals Survive Neoliberalism? A Critical Examination of the Sustainable Development Neoliberalism Nexus in Developing Countries’, Journal of Environment, Development and Sustainability, 16(1) 539-554.

     Adjei, P., Dacosta, A. and Yeboah, T. (2012) ‘Extreme poverty and vulnerability experiences on urban highways in Ghana: Assessing social protection policy responses’, Educational Research 3(5), 436-446

     

    WORKING AND TECHNICAL PAPERS

    Yeboah, T. and Flynn, J. (2021). Rural Youth Employment in Africa: An Evidence Review. Online at https://includeplatform.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Rural-youth-employment-in-Africa-evidence-review.pdf

     Okyere, S.; Frimpong Boamah, E.; Asante, F. and Yeboah, T. (2021) Policies and Politics Around Children’s Work in Ghana, ACHA Working Paper 8, Brighton: Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture, IDS, DOI: 10.19088/ACHA.2021.003

     Yeboah, T. and Egyir, I. (2020) Forms, Prevalence and Drivers of Children’s Work and Children’s Harmful Work in Shallot Production on the Keta Peninsula, South-Eastern Ghana, ACHA Working Paper 2, Brighton: Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture, Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/ACHA.2020.002

    Yeboah, T., Kandilige, L., Bisong, A. and Garba, F. Teye, J.K (2020). Same policy but different Implications for different people?  An analysis of how diverse categories of ECOWAS migrants experience the Free Movement Protocol. Working Paper, Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) working paper, University of Ghana

     Yeboah, T. (2019). Building Livelihoods: Young People and Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa: Ghana Country Study, Future Agricultures Consortium Working Paper 20, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK

     Kumi, E., Muazu, I., and Yeboah, T., (2017). Aid volatility and structural economic transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does Finance Matter? Economic Research Southern Africa, ERSA working paper 655

     Yeboah, T., (2017). Towards secure and decent work for migrant youth in Ghana, IDS policy briefing, Issue 132, February 2017

    Sumberg, J., Yeboah, T., Flynn, J., and Anyidoho, N.A. (2015). Perspectives on jobs and farming: Findings from a Q study with young people, parents and development workers in rural Ghana, Working paper 109, Future Agricultures Consortium, Brighton, UK.

    CONFERENCE AND OTHER PAPERS

    Yeboah, T. (2019). Building Livelihoods: Youth and Agricultural Commercialisation in Ghana. APRA Brief, Issue Number 15, March 2019

     Yeboah, T., Badasu, M.D., Asare, A. Joha, S. (2019). Child Migration in the Context of Free Movement in West Africa: Opportunities, Vulnerabilities and Policy Dynamics. MIASA Public Seminar Series, presented at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana, 10th April, 2019

     Badasu, D.M. and Yeboah, T. (2019). Internal Remittances and Development. A paper presented at the 5th School of Science International Conference, 3-4th April, 2019

     Yeboah, T. (2017). Rural-Urban Youth Entrepreneurs, Inequality and Social Networks. A paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis Hotel USA, 21st April, 2017

     Sumberg, J., Yeboah, T., Flynn, J., and Anyidoho, N.A. (2015) Youth employment and imagined futures in rural Africa, Institute for Development Studies Blog, Sussex, United Kingdom

     Yeboah, T., (2015) Engendering Children’s Movement: A Participatory Technique to Unveil the Subjectivities and Multiple Realities of Young Migrants. A paper presented at the Churchill College Conference on Everything, 25th April, 2015 at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

     Yeboah, T. (2013): Socio-Economic Lives of Independent Young Migrants in Southern Ghana: A paper presented at the Churchill College Conference on Everything, 27th April, 2013 at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

     Yeboah T, and Anzagra S, (2012): Child migration in Ghana: Unveiling the realities of vulnerability and social exclusion, A paper presented at the KNUST Alumni Conference 29-31 AUGUST 2012 at Elmina, Ghana

     

     


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