ABSTRACT Desperate emigration among all categories of Nigerians is an indicator of challenging socioeconomic and development environment. As mass poverty, mediocrity and visionless leadership crept into the polity in the 1980s and became institutionalized over the years, it became apparent that striking a balance among the citizenry would translate to devising adjustment mechanisms, including emigration. This paper argues that although migration affects development in several ways, it is fal...
ABSTRACT A public pension scheme is the only formal scheme that guarantees income security for the aged. In this regard, the voluntary pension scheme is an income supplement, therefore, it is economically prudent for workers to embrace the schemes as an optional insurance to ensure income security and alleviate poverty among individuals to cope with major retirement risks. The purpose of the study was to assess the attitude of public sector workers towards voluntary pension schemes as a way o...
ABSTRACT Organisations achieve good results when the employees are motivated. This study was conducted to assess the factors of motivation that influence staff of Value Added Tax (VAT) Service to remain committed to the Service and their job. Descriptive research design was used for the study. Of the required sample size of 278 from a study population 1094 from 27 regional offices, mixed method comprising purposive, stratified and random sampling was used to arrive at a sample size of 111. Th...
ABSTRACT Issue of tax non-compliance has remained a major canker in Ghana because of deliberate attempt of people not to file and pay their taxes. Few investigations on the drivers of tax compliance behaviour have revealed mixed findings because they were not able to establish a comprehensive factor that drive people to comply with tax obligation. The dearth of clarity on what drives people to comply with tax limits a proper understanding on tax policy formulation. In view of this, the study ...
ABSTRACT The sectorial relevance and direction of energy policy in the Ghanaian economy as energy demand continue to rise with constant growth in services and a steady decrease in manufacturing growth, requires empirical analysis of the relationship between electricity generation and economic growth. This study analyses time series data from 1983 to 2015 to examine long run cointegration between electricity generation and economic growth using Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) bound...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the impact of Kintampo Municipal Mutual Health Insurance Scheme on access to basic health care services in the Municipality since established in October, 2004 Questionnaire, interview and focus group discussion were the data collection instruments employed to gather relevant information from Heads of Health Institutions, Health Insurance workers/agents, Caregivers and other opinion leaders. The data were analyzed using tables, graphs, charts, percentages and diagra...
ABSTRACT Recruitment and selection as a human resource management function, is one of the activities that impact most critically on the performance of an organisation. It has an important role to play in ensuring worker performance and positive organisational outcomes. This study seeks to examine the recruitment and selection practices in Ghana Navy. A descriptive survey design was used for the study and data were obtained from thirty team leaders responsible for recruitment and selection in ...
ABSTRACT This thesis has four empirical papers. The first paper examines the determinants of bank market power in Africa. The second paper contains analyses of how financial development and financial innovation lead to economic growth convergence between African countries and the world’s technological leader. The second paper also analyzes whether financial innovation lead to economic growth in six sub-regions in Africa. The third paper examines whether bank market with power promote fina...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted on selected businesses in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region of Ghana with the purpose of assessing the practices small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the metropolis adopt in managing their working capital through the use of the descriptive research design. A sample of 300 respondents was chosen using the stratified random and purposive sampling techniques from a population consisting of entrepreneurs and their employees responsible for m...
ABSTRACT Child adoption, which could be a socially-responsive gesture or a solution for infertility, is gradually becoming culturally acceptable in Nigeria. This paper focuses on analyzing policies and practices of child adoption in Nigeria. It examines policies regulating adoption practices and explores knowledge and attitude towards child adoption, as well as socio-cultural issues in child adoption practices across Nigeria. Secondary data mainly policy documents, existing studies and review...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to identify the extent to which listed banks in Ghana comply with International Financial Reporting Standards, with particular reference to financial instruments IFRS 7. It also seeks to identify the formal mechanism employed to monitor and enforce IFRS compliance in Ghana. In addition, it is further intended to identify the problems listed banks encounter in complying with IFRS. The level of mandatory compliance with IFRS 7 was measured using a mandatory dis...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the effect of Capital structure on dividend payout of banks in Ghana. The main objective of the study was to measure the directional relationship between three capital structure variables. The Capital structure variables used were short-term financial leverages, total financial leverage, equity risk exposure and dividend pay-out was measured using the dividend payout ratio. The study design was casual and panel data. Annual data for all the capital structure va...
ABSTRACT The continuous decline in female students’ enrolment in accounting courses in Ghana has been witnessed and attributed to various factors. It is in this light that, the study seeks to assess the factors that influence female students in pursuing a career in accounting among Senior High Schools within the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis. The study employed the quantitative approach and descriptive research design due to its research objectives. A sample size of 136 respondents were rando...
ABSTRACT Household energy consumption and its related issues have received considerable attention in recent times. However, the bulk of research has focused on macro perspective using times series data and methods. Empirical research using micro level data is limited. This study therefore examines household energy consumption using household level data. The study used data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey to examine enegy consumption, choice and crowding-out effects o...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the interrelationship between stock price index and macroeconomic variables taking Ghana as a case using the cointegration, vector error correction (VEC) and vector auto regression (VAR) approaches. Annual data covering the period 1991-2006 on real GDP, All-shares index, consumption, investment and consumption shares of real GDP was collected, interpolated into quarterly series for the analysis and used for the study. The outcome of the study showed th...