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United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10.2: Analysis of Social Inequality in Ghana

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The study aims at Ghana’s efforts to address inequalities and achieve SDG 10.2 by 2023. It explores Sustainable Development Goal 10.2 on social inequality using Ghana’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP). Many low/middle-income countries have focused on poverty and made efforts to eradicate/reduce poverty, but little progress in reducing the inequality gap. Many poor/needy persons/vulnerable persons are excluded from having access to assets across different dimensions and as such realising this goal by 2030 seems almost impossible. Through a qualitative research design, the article used primary and secondary data. The findings revealed the vulnerable in society like the aged, persons living with disabilities, women, and children suffer greater disparity in terms of opportunities like basic services, education, and health. Again, it highlighted Ghana’s effort to reduce inequalities by empowering the underprivileged across social and economic lines to access the necessities of life through various social intervention programmes. Findings revealed these programmes require the coordinated effort of the government and other establishments to implement them within the Ghanaian context. LEAP was identified as a commendable intervention programme that selects vulnerable individuals to reduce the inequality gap. The study recommends that the government make provisions for other funds to cover large-scale the underprivileged in need.

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  1. Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), University of Ghana, P. O. Box LG 25, Accra, Ghana

    Daniel Dramani Kipo-Sunyehzi & Maame Efua Quaigua Arthur

  2. Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 59, Legon, Accra, Ghana

    Mariama Zaami

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The study received institutional approval from the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy of the University of Ghana and obtained institutional permission from the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) Secretariat, SDGs Advisory Unit, and the National Development Planning Committee (NDPC), as well as the informed consent of the study participants before the commencement of the data collection in the two regions of Ghana.

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Kipo-Sunyehzi, D.D., Arthur, M.E.Q. & Zaami, M. United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10.2: Analysis of Social Inequality in Ghana. Glob Soc Welf (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40609-024-00334-w

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