ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent of stock return synchronicity on the Ghana Stock Exchange. The study compared synchronicity levels across firm size, age and industry type. Finally, the study examined the influence of corporate governance on transparency while using stock return synchronicity as a measure of transparency. A ten year panel data spanning from 2000 to 2009 collected from 31 listed firms in Ghana was used. Daily stock returns were also collected ...
ABSTRACT It is true that globally unemployment in general and graduate unemployment in particular is scaling, most especially in developing economies such as Ghana. Entrepreneurship has been seen as one of the means to solving this unemployment menace. However, culture has been identified as one of the major factors that influence the entrepreneurial intent of people. This study therefore, sets out to gauge the impact of Ghanaian culture on the entrepreneurial disposition of Higher National D...
ABSTRACT No doubt, the Lawra constituency is one of the strong holds of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Ghana. This is amply demonstrated by the fact that the party has won four consecutive parliamentary elections since the inception of the fourth republic. However, in the 2008 parliamentary elections, the party lost the seat to the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the first time. This loss shocked not only the NDC party but other keen political observers. This study se...
a b s t r a c t The aim of this study was three-fold to study (a) sex differences in the report of psychiatric symptoms. (b) sex differences in locus of control and (c) the relationship between locus of control and report of psychiatric symptoms. The study also looked at the relationship that exists between Marital Status, Age and Education and locus of control and the report of psychiatric symptoms. Two self-administered questionnaire were given to 320 Ghanaian working Adults aged between 21...
ABSTRACT The study examined the psychosocial correlates of psychological wellbeing among the clergy of the Presbyterian Church and the Church of Pentecost in Accra. A concurrent mixed-method approach composed of a quantitative and qualitative methods was used. The quantitative involved the use of questionnaires administered to three hundred and six (306) conveniently sampled clergy from some selected congregations among the GA and GA West Presbyteries of the Presbyterian church of Ghana in Ac...
ABSTRACT Non-performing loans refers to credit facilities which have gone bad and pose profitability problems to banks. Banks in their daily operations, especially in their credit functions seek to identify risks pertaining to credits under consideration and/or management in order to prevent them from crystallizing into bad debts in their books. In this study, FBNBank Ghana Limited is used as a case study to identify the unique bankspecific factors and customer-specific factors that are con...
ABSTRACT Governments and citizens have recognized the potential of using the Internet as a delivery channel for public services. However, the evolution of e‐government initiatives poses a myriad of challenges. One of the most overwhelming challenges is identifying and implementing funding strategy for promoting e‐government projects. In view of limited availability of public sector funding and the increased focus on judicious spending of government finances, the search for alternative f...
ABSTRACT Education has been recognized as an important tool in reducing poverty, especially due to its intergenerational effects. Thus poverty reduction efforts have often targeted the educational sector with national governments leading the way. Government interventions have however been unable to adequately ensure educational access for all. As a result, Non-Governmental Organisations such as Compassion International (CI) have stepped in to provide complementary programmes to make education...
ABSTRACT This study examines the moderating role of involvement on the relationship that exists between the dimensions of customer engagement and loyalty. Explanatory research design is used to establish the relationship between behavioural, cognitive and emotional dimensions of engagement and the loyalty of customers in the telecommunication industry, by way of the social exchange theory. The study employs a self-administered questionnaire to survey 305 mobile network subscribers. Covariance...
ABSTRACT The Ghanaian electric power system, like most Sub-Saharan African countries, is bedevilled with the problem of inadequate generation of electric power amidst growing demand for electricity. Governments over the years have tried to tackle the issue of inadequate generation capacity and supply of electricity in Ghana to meet the increasing demand for electric power. Yet electricity supply in Ghana remains erratic and inconsistent. The purpose of this study was to develop a long-term (...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship of ODAs in the economic development of Ghana. It subsequently analyzed the association between ODAs interventions and development of education and health in the country by looking at the growth in educational enrollment as well as the increase in Life Expectancy. Based on these aims and objectives of the study, secondary data in the form of time-series data were acquired from OECD, the World Bank and UNDP were acquired for the study. The data acq...
ABSTRACT Despite the vast and growing empirical literature focusing on the association between innovation, financial access and firm performance, the combined impact of these factors in one study is dearth even though this relationship seems to be important, especially for developing countries. In this research, a conceptual model is developed applying the Resource-Based-View (RBV) theory of the firm to carry out an in-depth analysis of whether firm performance is affected by financial access...
ABSTRACT This research examines the impact of monetary policy on capital structure and financial performance of companies in Ghana. The research uses panel data from 2008-2017 for 33 firms on the Ghana Stock Exchange. A system GMM-technique is used to analyze the data. This technique allowed the researcher to control for autocorrelation to ensure a robust result is achieved. The study finds that firms prefer to borrow long-term when monetary policy is contracting (increasing policy rate). ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to compare leadership emergence and engagement among leaders of charismatic and historic mission churches in Ghana. A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches were used for the study. The qualitative technique was used to explore the differences in leadership emergence among the leaders of charismatic and historic mission churches. On the other hand, quantitative technique was used to assess the differences in leadership engagement. In all, four hundr...
ABSTRACT As part of the neo-liberal agenda, Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are generally perceived by countries around the world as major innovative policy tools that will remedy the lack of dynamism in traditional public service delivery by increasing investment in infrastructure as well as improving the delivery of social services. Currently, addressing Ghana`s infrastructural deficit and increase demand for basic social services by Ghanaian citizens, public sector will require sustaine...