Yeboah

 

  1. Articles in Refereed Journals

van Selm, G., Bukenya, B., Kamya, I., Kumi, E., Yeboah, T., Banks, N., ... & van Wessel, M. (2025). Northern NGO-centrism in localisation processes: reproducing power inequities in the aid field. Development in Practice, 1-11.

Kumi, E., Yeboah, T., & Edudzie, E. (2025). ‘The youth are not given a listening ear’: A critical analysis of the contributions of youth-led civil society organisations to Africa’s development. World Development Perspectives, 39, 100711.

Adeetuk, L., & Yeboah, T. (2025).  Constrained yet agentic: young men and women's everyday negotiations to daily mobility in rural Ghana. Children's Geographies, 1-15.

Wadei, B., Owusu-Addo, E., Bonuedi, I., Yeboah, T., Tetteh, R. O., Antoh, E. F., & Mensah-Odum, N. (2025). Groundnut processing and women's economic empowerment: Insights from a qualitative analysis. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 12, 101631

Arthur-Holmes, F., & Yeboah, T. (2025). Reconceptualising the youth and waithood notions: African youth agencyand rural livelihoods in artisanal and small-scale mining. Journal of Rural Studies, 113, 103513.

Sumberg, J., Holland-Szyp, C., Yeboah, T., Oosterom, M., Crossouard, B., & Chamberlin, J. (2024). Young people, livelihood building and the transformation of African agriculture: A reality check. Global Food Security41,100759.

Yeboah, T., & Boafo, J. (2024). ‘Side‐hustling’ in commercial agriculture among young university graduates in Ghana. Geo: Geography and Environment, 11(2), e00154.

Boafo, J., & Yeboah, T. (2024). Understanding ecological grief as a response to climate change-induced lossin Ghana. Climate and Development, 1-11.

Wadei, B., Fredua Antoh, E., Addison, M., & Yeboah, T. (2024). An overview of the obstacles to gender equality processes in rural and urban Ghana: A comparative analysis. Journal of Asian and African  Studies, 00219096241235290.

Yeboah, T., & Boafo, J.(2023). Thesocial significanceof children’s work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana. Children's Geographies, 1- 16.

Arthur-Holmes, F., Yeboah, T., & Busia, K. A. (2023). Dimensions of women’s mobility, livelihoods and vulnerability in artisanal and small- scale mining-induced local economy. Journal of Rural Studies101,  103061.

Arthur-Holmes, F., Yeboah, T., Cobbinah, I. J., & Busia, K. A. (2023). Youth in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and higher education nexus: Diffusion of innovations and knowledge transfer. Futures, 103201.

Osei, L., & Yeboah,T. (2023). Imagining a futurefrom the pit: Future  aspirations of young artisanal-small scale miners in rural northernGhana. Cogent SocialSciences9(1),2167316.

Boafo, J., Yeboah, T., Guodaar, L., Stephanie, Y., & Nyantakyi-Frimpong,

H. (2023). Understanding non-economic loss and damage due to climate change in Ghana. Climate and Development, 1-10.

Yeleliere, E., Yeboah,T., Antwi-Agyei, P.,& Peprah, P. (2022). Traditional agroecological knowledge and practices: The drivers and opportunities foradaptation actions in the northern region of Ghana. Regional Sustainability, 3(4), 294-308.

Boafo, J., & Yeboah, T. (2022). Disenfranchising young people from customary land access; a case of commercialised cashew production in the Brong AhafoRegion of Ghana.Cogent Social Sciences8(1), 2148419.

Kandilige, L., Yeboah, T., & Abutima, T. K. (2022). Citizenship, Belonging and Crisis Induced Returns of Ghanaian Migrants from Côte d’Ivoire. African Human Mobility Review, 8(1), 34-58.

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. Extractive Industries and Society. 7(1) 181-190

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.

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

Yeboah, T. (2017). Navigating precarious employment: social networks among migrant youth in Ghana. IDS Bulletin, 48(3), 79-9

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 girlsin 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 andsectoral growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does Finance Matter? African Journal of Business, 4, 435-456

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 Debateon the North-South Movement in Ghana’Journal of Social Sciences, 12(1), 42-54

Yeboah, T. andJagri, 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

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 Growthin 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 FemaleInformal Sector Workers on Gendered Poverty and Livelihood Portfolios in Southern Ghana’, Journal of Economic and Social Studies, 5 (1)239- 267

Muazu, I and Yeboah T, (2014.) ‘Combating poverty towards actualising 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

 

B. Book Chapters

Teye, J. K., Yeboah, T., & Setrana, M. B. (2024). Sustainable Development Goals, migration and regionalism: evidence from Africa. In The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 355- 375). EdwardElgar Publishing.

Kandilige, L., & Yeboah, T. (2024). West African Migration Regimes and the Externalisation of EU Migration Management Policies. In Making Routes: Mobility and the Politics of Migration in the Global South.

Okyere, S., Boamah, E. F., Asante, F. A., & Yeboah, T. (2023). Children’s

Work in Ghana:Policies and Politics. In Sumberg, J., and Sebates-Wheeler,

R. (eds). Children’s Work in African Agriculture (pp. 204-232). Bristol University Press.

Kumi, E., Yeboah, T., Kusi, N. K., Fomunjong, J. C., & Vandyck, C. K. (2023). Shifting the Narrative: Localisation and Shift the power in the African context in Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development, 190-204

Yeboah, T., & Egyir, I. (2023). Children’s Work in Shallot Production on the Keta Peninsula, South-Eastern Ghana. In Children’s Work in African Agriculture. Bristol University Press.

Garba, F., & Yeboah, T. (2022). Free Movement and Regional Integration in the ECOWAS Sub-Region. In Migration in West Africa (pp. 19-34). Springer, Cham.

Yeboah, T., Kumi, E., & Ibrahim, M. (2022). Female Labor Force Participation, Infrastructure, and Sectoral Value Additions in Sub-Saharan Africa. In The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors (pp. 867-894). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

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 andimplications. 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 5011

C. TECHNICAL/WORKING PAPERS

Banks, N., Bukenya, B., Elbers, W., Kamya, I., Kumi, E., Schulpen, L., ... & Yeboah, T. (2024). Where do we go from here?: Navigating power inequalities between NGOs in the aid system: Policy brief. Partos.

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 ShallotProduction on the Keta Peninsula, South-Eastern Ghana,ACHA Working Paper2, Brighton: Actionon Children’s Harmful Workin 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 paperUniversity of Ghana

Yeboah, T. (2019). Building Livelihoods: Young People and AgriculturalCommercialisation 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, Issue132, 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 paper109, Future Agricultures Consortium, Brighton, UK.

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

PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCE

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 ruralAfrica, 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 MigrantsA paper presented at the Churchill College Conference on Everything, 25th April, 2015 at theUniversity 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