ABSTRACT This study adopts a legal definition of informal sector work and studies the determinants of informality, paying particular attention to the gender dynamics with respect to informality and poverty. The study throws more light on the definition and measures of informality, then proceeds to determine the socio-economic factors that influence an individual’s decision to work in the informal sector. Particular attention is given to the relationship between informal sector work and pove...
1.0 Background to the Study In spite of the high level of globalization, international trade, financial liberalization as well as the increasing economic integration of the world as a whole, there is still a wide range of currencies circulating in the world’s economic monetary system. The International Monetary Fund with 188 member countries has more than 150 currencies. As Mundell (1961) writes: “If some spaceship captain came down from outer space and looked at the way international mon...
ABSTRACT GARCH (1, 1) and the E- GARCH (p, q) techniques were used in this study to evaluate the volatility clustering in the stock market returns. Interest rates, inflation rates and exchange rates were themacroeconomic determinantfactors to stock market returns volatility in Nigeria, covering the period, 1995 to 2014. The study revealed that inflation, interest rates and exchange rates were volatile and move in clusters, with the following valuesof GARCH coefficient β 0.966349, 0.9662 and...
INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Conflict may be considered as a normal facet of our everyday life and is a truth that exists in any human society throughout history (Ahmed, 2015). Wherever two or more people interact, there is a tendency for conflict to arise. In other words, conflict in the workplace is destined to occur as long as there are ongoing interactions among stakeholders. Conflict may occur within any organisation, be it a large business or a privately-owned small business...
ABSTRACT The present research tested the significance of the Dynamic Managerial Leadership model in Nigerian Industrial-Organisations. It was hypothesised that DML Organisations will outperform NON-DML Organisations in Assembly times. Quality of products, Profit ratio, Production decisions, Satisfaction and Productivity ratings. The Participants for the main study consisted of 192 University students: 96 males and 96 females, randomly selected form the part three and four classes of Departme...
Abstract This st1u�v examined the influence of customer relationship management (CRJv!) 011 the pel.formance of Depos;t Money Banks (DMBs) in Nigeria. The study sought to establish if CRM measured 'by (customer knowledge, customer knowledge managf!ment capability, customer interaction and customization) influences the pel.formance of DMBs (pmxied by customer value, cu's·tomer sati.s.faction, customer loyalty and customer life-time value). The study adopted a survey research method...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this work is to examine the influence of pay satisfaction on the three dimensions of employee commitment (affective, normative and continuance) among employees of expatriates owned businesses in Ghana. The sample for this study was limited to the local employees of these expatriates owned businesses. A sample of 222 responses were retrieved from seven expatriate owned companies in North Kaneshie Industrial Area, Accra and used for the analysis. Simple linear regression...
ABSTRACT High employee turnover among accountants is a phenomenon that has assumed a global dimension requiring more attention from all stakeholders. So, this study investigates the effects of the antecedents and consequences of turnover intention on accountants Job Performance. Using evidence from Ghana, the study employed the survey research strategy. A total of 337 respondents (Accountants) working in 225 Auditing firms in Ghana were surveyed. The study analysed the hypothesized relationsh...
ABSTRACT The study assesses the Effect of the Nigerian Capital market on Industrial development (1986-2017).The Industrial development by data manufacturing sector and the capital market variables considered includes: Market Capitalization (MCAP), Volume of Shares (VOS) and All Shares Index (ASI). Applying Ordinary Least Square (OLS), Unit root test and Johansen co-integration, the model was estimated using Eview software. The estimated model revealed that there is a significan...
ABSTRACT This paper investigates household cooking fuel choice and its impact on household healthcare expenditure as well as examining the socio-economic and demographic factors that influence household healthcare expenditure in Ghana. We employed the Tobit regression technique and data from the sixth and seventh round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey conducted in 2012/13 and 2016/17 respectively. Our findings reveal that relative to households using wood, households using charcoal and ga...
ABSTRACT In response to calls for studies that highlight the social determinants of Social Health Insurance enrolment, this study investigated the forms of social capital (SC) in selected communities in Ghana and how they influence the enrolment decision. It also explored how SC structures in the selected communities could be leveraged to drive enrolment in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Situated in an interpretive paradigm, the study adopted a qualitative research methodo...
ABSTRACT Over the years, marketing analytics had surfaced as a third component of the marketing research, considered on equal footing with quantitative and qualitative research. While the process is not new, its implementation and uses today are always changing, in an environment where consumers are evolving, hence the need for marketers to gather as much relevant information on the customer as is practically and ethically possible. This study thus investigated the nature of marketing analyti...
ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to analyse the role of financial institutions development in the link between FDI and industrialisation in SSA. Employing the static model (Fixed Effect Model) and the dynamic model (Generalised Method of Moments), the study utilises a panel model of 45 countries in SSA spanning the period 1990 to 2009. The findings of the study reveal that previous year output of the manufacturing industry is very essential to the industrialisation process in SSA. Addi...
ABSTRACT This study examines the resilience strategies of adolescent girls in Nima, a suburb of Accra against teenage pregnancy. Specifically, it sought to find out the resilience pathways of adolescent girls against teenage pregnancy, determine the factors which influenced the resilience decision making process of these adolescent girls, examine the factors which help in building resilience and finally, understand the socio-cultural and economic factors which promote the building of resilien...
ABSTRACT While many studies have tested the theoretical essence of education or income on maternal mortality, none has studied these relationships in the long term. Researchers have paid very little attention to assessing the impact of income or education on maternal mortality in SubSaharan African countries with different income statuses. Using panel data on forty-three SubSaharan African countries over the period 1980 to 2010, along with the modernization theory, the study unravels the pote...