ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to understand women’s experiences with secondgeneration gender bias in the Ghanaian banking sector. Women’s rate of advancement in leadership roles is currently higher than their rate of advancement into executive management roles in the workplace. Second-generation gender biases or implicit biases are one of the poorly addressed factors explaining the low percentages of women’s advancement into executive level management roles. First-generation gender...
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between capital flight and economic development in Africa by focusing on the impact of capital flight on economic development in Nigeria and Ghana. Existing literature on the phenomenon of capital flight, has focused almost exclusively on exploring the relationship between capital flight and economic growth instead of economic development. The preponderance of that literature indicates that a negative relationship exists between capital flight and...
ABSTRACT The Ghana Textile industry was part of several industries set up in the late 1960s by Ghana‟s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, in an attempt to make the economy self-sufficient. By the mid 1970s, there were 40 medium to large scale textile companies in Ghana. The industry‟s productivity peaked in this same period achieved a total output of 130 million yards, plant utilization capacity of 60% and employed about 25,000 people (Quartey, 2006). In the mid 1980s, however, the Ghana...
ABSTRACT Generally speaking, every investment decision contains a component of risk and a component of return. The relationship amongst risk and return exists as a risk-return trade off, by which it is implied that it is just conceivable to obtain higher returns by tolerating higher risk. This risk-return relationship is very key in investment assessment. Risk and Return are emphatically connected; an expansion in one is joined by an increment in the other. Hence this study assessed the ris...
Abstract As China emerges to be a new global power, its relation with Africa is overheated with domination or collaboration debate. The pessimistic argues that China offers puny aid aimed at exploiting nature resources and creating a neo-colonialism state in Africa, while the optimistic argues that Chinese aid is aimed at creating mutual win-win collaboration that tend to lift poverty in Africa. This study will attempt to offer explanation using historical and aid/investment analysis as a foc...
Abstract In the Upper West Region of Ghana, most the people are engaged in subsistence agriculture. A major challenge that they face is a long dry season of about eight months that renders most of them jobless. This research assessed the possibility of dry season farming in improving living standards of rural farmers. The research revealed that most farmers used dams with canals and furrows, others used canals with fuel powered pumps and some used wells for irrigating their crops. An average ...
ABSTRACT This study examined factors that predispose adolescents to Human Immunodeficiency Virus! Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromel Sexually Transmitted Infections (HIV/AIDS/STIs) in the communities in and around the University ofCape Coast, Central Region, Ghana as a result of rising incidence of HIV/AIDS/STIs reported cases in the University Hospital, particularly among adolescents. Using an exploratory cross-sectional study design, a probability sampling method was used to select 450 ad...
ABSTRACT The study was to assess the credit risk management practices among rural banks in the Takoradi metropolis. The study was a descriptive design which targeted workers and management of Lower Pra Rural Bank, Ahantaman Rural Bank Ltd, and Fiaseman Rural Bank. Questionnaires were administered to thirty workers while structured interview was conducted for three general managers of the various rural banks. Moreover, the data were analyzed with the aid of Statistical Product for Service Sol...
Abstract This research paper was conducted with the aim of investigating the different ways teachers; school administrators and parents contribute to a special needs child’s experience and success at school. This paper provides an insight as to the various roles each stakeholder (teachers, parents and school administrators) play. A quantitative design was used to gather data, through the use of a combination of structured, open-ended questionnaires and interviews. The research sought to det...
Abstract The small firm effect is a stock market anomaly which shows that firms with smaller market capitalization earn higher returns than firms with larger market capitalization. The objective of this study was to test whether the small firm effect exists on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). The study adopted an explanatory research design. The study used 30 listed firms that had traded consistently from 2009 to 2016 as sample. The study created quartile portfolios in ascending order for the ...
ABSTRACT The largest religion in Ghana, the world’s most religious country, is Christianity. Here, the pervading belief in God’s existence fosters religious involvement. With globalization causing a mirroring of trends, the drop in Western religious participation signifies the potential decline of religion in Ghana. Noting that religion is a major part of the lives of many Ghanaians, it is evident that ascertaining what is responsible for the popularity of Christianity in Ghana could hold...
ABSTRACT The research is a descriptive study that examined freshwater scarcity in the Builsa District and its socio-economic implications. The main objective of the study was to examine the phenomenon of freshwater scarcity in the Bulisa District and how it impacted socially and economically on the people. The specific objectives include, identifying the factors that were responsible for the scarcity of freshwater, the effects of freshwater on the socio-economic lives of the people and to a...
ABSTRACT Ashesi University College is a Liberal Arts private university located in Berekuso, the Eastern Region of Ghana. Ashesi offers three undergraduate degree programs namely: Business Administration, Computer Science and Management Information System and is the only university in Ghana that operates on an Honor Code System. This is a system intended to build a hightrust community, to put students in charge of their ethical posture and the reputation of their alma mater. The main objectiv...
ABSTRACT This study focused on assessing the performance of the Ho Mutual Health Insurance Scheme and considered factors including; availability of administrative structures and logistical support, quality of care, attitude of hospital staff towards insured persons, claim processing, etc. There have been some concerns over the quality of treatment under the health reform compared to cash and carry system hitherto, practiced. For instance, questions have been raised about the attitude of hosp...
ABSTRACT Ghana has abundant viable land and a reasonably well educated population that can support different types of agriculture including crop production and animal husbandry. Unfortunately, in the last several years, the agricultural sector has been performing poorly and poultry production has suffered from liberal trade policies that have exposed it to competition from imported products, forcing an almost exclusive focus on egg instead of meat production. At the birth of the country, the ...