Heliyon (Sep 2023)

Assessing financial literacy and food and nutritional security relationship in an African country

  • Martinson Ankrah Twumasi,
  • Gloria Essilfie,
  • Evans Brako Ntiamoah,
  • Huidan Xu,
  • Yuansheng Jiang

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 9
p. e19573

Abstract

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This study investigates the relationship between rural Ghanaian household food and nutrition security and financial literacy. We used the endogenous treatment regression (ETR) technique to address the analysis's potential selection bias problem. The findings of our study demonstrated a beneficial relationship between food and nutrition security and financial literacy. According to further studies, the relationship between food security and financial literacy is heterogeneous. Our findings may have some ramifications for promoting food and nutritional security while preserving rural development methods.

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