ABSTRACT The liberalization of universal banking sector in Ghana, has intensified competition within the industry. To withstand this competition by banks and differentiate their services from competitors, has generated interest in understanding the brand positioning which seeks to design a firm’s offering and image or reputation to occupy a distinctive place in the mind of the target consumers to become loyal to the service provider. The introduction of switching cost as a moderator ensure...
ABSTRACT The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to spread all over the world and Ghana is no exception. The prevalence rate from sentinel centres across the country in 2001 suggests between 3 to 4 percent of the spread. The study was conducted in Mamobi, New Town and James Town, all suburbs of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. It is both a qualitative and quantitative study that sets out to describe the youths perceptions of what constitutes risk behaviours in relation to HIV/AIDS, examine the kno...
ABSTRACT TOPIC: CORPORATE REPUTATION AND SERVICE PROVIDER SELECTION IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY IN GHANA. (10155593) The academic research on corporate reputation is relatively quiet new as a field of study. There is little research that has been conducted to examine whether corporate reputation plays a role in customers‘ service provider selection behaviour especially in the mobile telecommunications industry and to the extent that it can be used as a competitive advantage for org...
Abstract Today, corruption is a major concern in nearly all higher education systems across the globe; it is a complex phenomenon, which has become particularly evident within the academic arena involving all the stakeholders. Generally, this thesis sought to explore from the students' perspective, the perceived academic corruption at universities in the region of Accra. The study, specifically, sought to examine the extent to which students, faculty members, and administrators were involved...
ABSTRACT Using a dataset from universal banks in Ghana, the study takes advantage of the introduction of a Credit Referencing Bureaus (CRBs) by the Ghanaian Banking Industry in 2010 as a natural experiment to evaluate the impact of Credit Referencing Bureaus on bank credit risk and profitability. Making use of the Prais-Winsten estimation, the study established that CRBs were negatively related to bank credit risk in Ghana. This implies that banks that use the services and products of CRBs i...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed at investigating the influence of bank credit on bank performance, covering the period, 1993 – 2004. While loans and advances were the proxies for bank credit, the profit after tax represented bank performance, for the period under investigation. Three Hypotheses were tested using the Regression Model as our Main tool of analysis. The first two hypotheses employed a simple regression model, while the hypotheses three, which tried to establish the join...
ABSTRACT Employing a dataset from multinational companies (MNCs) in Ghana, the study takes advantage of the ongoing issues concerning international transfer pricing as a platform to examine the impact of transfer pricing (TP) abuses on tax avoidance. The study again takes advantage of the new growing area of literature on earnings management (EM) to specifically examine the effect of earnings management on tax avoidance from the perspective of both financial non-financial MNCs. The study emp...
ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of Pay Reform and Work Performance on Tanzania’s Public Service by using the Capital Development Authority (CDA)- Dodoma as a case study. The study was conducted so as to find out the impact of the introduced pay reform since 2000 on work performance of employees in public service. The review of the literature conducted explains and highlights the role of motivation particularly the increase in pay to workers which ultimately could results in the imp...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted in Dodoma Municipality by assessing the effects of Women Development Fund (credit) on improving the income of women micro entrepreneurs in Tanzania. The study is intended to find out the women awareness on WDF, to find out the socio- economic activities done by women micro entrepreneurs supported by WDF, to determine the achievement of women micro entrepreneurs supported by WDF, and finally to identify the challenges faced by women micro entrepreneurs in acce...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at assessing the coping strategies to unemployment by university graduates in Tanzania: A Case of Dodoma Municipality.” The study used three specific objectives: to examine factors of unemployment in formal sector among university graduates in Dodoma Municipality to identify coping strategies to unemployment university graduates and To find out options for increasing informal employment to graduates. This study used a non - experimental cross – sectional survey ...
ABSTRACT Solid waste management in urban areas in Tanzania is still a great challenge, Dodoma city is among of the urban areas which has not succeeded in management of solid wastes. There is insufficient and sustainable means of collection of wastes in households and communities. Therefore, this study examines roles played and challenges faced by community in the improvement of solid waste management. A cross section design was used to gather information from selected representative wards. P...
ABSTRACT In sub-Saharan Africa, tomato is an important vegetable crop as it greatly contributes to the incomes of smallholder farmers. Tanzania is among of the African countries where tomato farming contributes to the income generation of small farmers. This study sought to establish the contribution of tomatoes farming in livelihood of small farmers in Kilolo District. Specifically the study aimed to asses tomatoes farming practices, to establish the contribution of tomatoes farming in inco...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the determinants of Public Servants Effectiveness in Ward Administration drawing experiences from Dodoma City Council (DCC). The study, specifically examined the working conditions of public servants in ward administration and context in relation to their responsibilities; explored the challenges faced by public servants’ in implementing their roles in LGAs and suggested alternative solutions to enhance effectiveness of public servants at ward administration and...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out in the Upper West Region of Ghana. The main objective of the study was to compare the repayment performance of group clients and individual clients of microfinance institutions in order to bring to light factors that determine repayment performance in groups and individual credit beneficiaries. Two financial institutions namely WACCU and SRB were involved in the study. Finding showed that individual lending yielded a better repayment performance than group ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of women empowerment programmes on women leadership in public sector organizations drawing on the data collected from the Ministry of Agriculture in Tanzania. Thus, the study is built upon three key themes, namely the reasons why women are under-represented in leadership positions at the Ministry of Agriculture, the level of awareness of women empowerment programs at the Ministry of Agriculture by women employee, and the role played by other stake...