ABSTRACT The decision by the government of Ghana to diversify the agricultural sector through the Medium Term Agricultural Development Programme (MTADP), led to the establishment of the World Bank Funded Agricultural Diversification Project in 1991. The project sought to identify some agricultural products for development and promotion of which pineapple was the most prominent because of its high yield and export value. Government and other organizations have since encouraged pineapple ...
ABSTRACT Most developing countries face the problem of raising tax revenue to carry out public sector spending. Tax revenue is necessary for economic growth and development. Unfortunately tax revenue generation has been low in Ghana. This study therefore examined the determinants of tax revenue with evidence from Ghana using quarterly data from 1988 to 2008. The tax effort function is used by regressing government expenditure, real gross domestic product and financial deepening on tax reven...
ABSTRACT Social protection is critical for enhancing agriculture livelihoods and sustainable development in rural economies.Social protection affects the social and material situations of women and men, shapes gender relations, vulnerabilities and livelihoods. Yet, many studies on social protection insubSaharan Africa, the Asia Pacific, the Middle East and the North Africa regionsthat have relatively large informal economies have neglected gender relations. It is in line with the gender, soc...
ABSTRACT The study of credit risk has become even more important in the wake of the recent near bankruptcy of two indigenous banks (UT Bank and Capital Bank), more especially among Credit Cooperatives where studies are limit in Ghana. A Credit Cooperative is a financial institution that is owned and controlled by its members and operated for the purposes of promoting thrift, providing credit at low interest rates and providing other financial services to its members. The primary objecti...
ABSTRACT Managerial decision making requires quality, relevant, reliable and accurate accounting information. Accounting information plays a decision-facilitating role since it possesses value relevance capabilities to enhance decision making. Through the use of accounting information, managers are enabled to ascertain the meaning and significance of day-to-day activities of an entity. In this regard, the aim of this study is to examine the perceptions of managers on the usefulness of ac...
Introduction/Overview This paper is a review of innovation in the ICT entrepreneurship/mobile internet/mobile related applications space. The paper aims to identify best practice in stimulating innovation in developing countries. Definitions of Innovation We use the standard definitions provided by the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS 2011) of both product innovation and process innovation: Product innovation: “the introduction of a good or service that is new or significantly improved w...
ABSTRACT This research paper explores the influence of celebrity endorsement on consumer buying behavior in the Ghanaian fashion industry. The objective of the research is to assess the effects of celebrity endorsement and give recommendations to Ghanaian fashion companies about how they can effectively use it. The study’s population consists of all female students of three universities: Ashesi University, Wisconsin University and University of Ghana; out of which a sample of 156 was select...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to determine whether the graduate higher educational sector in Ghana is providing a sufficiently high quality of education for its clients, namely, the graduate students who eventually become lecturers. The research questions tackled by the study are: Are foreign trained lecturers working in Ghana’s private higher education sector more effective than locally lecturers with regards to teaching quality and ability to earn promotion in a 5- year period? Can any differ...
ABSTRACT E-government is becoming a fundamental reform tool for enhancing public administration especially in developing countries like Ghana where public organisations face resource constraints in their delivery of public services. Although studies have given considerable attention to how E-government helps improve public administration, there still exist few studies which aim at comparing the perspectives of both public servants and end-users. Studies are also limited on the long term susta...
ABSTRACT The study examine the staff training and development programmes of the IRS by; identifying the training and development needs of staff, examining the overall training and development processes, assessing the benefits of training and development as well as examining the challenge facing the effective implementation of staff training and development policies in the IRS. Descriptive and cross-sectional survey designs were adopted for the research and a sample of 240 drawn using simple ...
Abstract Accra, the capital city of Ghana is one of the fastest growing cities in Africa. This has led to the daily generation of about 2,000 tons of municipal waste. Accra faces a situation in which plastics, the second largest component of waste produced is disposed of primarily through dumping and landfills although plastics do not decompose. However, recycling which is a preferable alternative for disposing of plastics and a profitable industry accounts for about 5% of the waste disposal ...
ABSTRACT The middle-income bracket in Africa is one that is growing and doing so rapidly. Ghana has been identified as having around “46.6% of the population belonging to the middle class who is gaining strength due to increased jobs, wealth, and political participation” (Grail Research, 2012). With this notion in mind, the middle-income bracket is being exposed to varying lifestyle changes as well as opportunities broadening their scope and exposing them to different cultural ideas. The ...
ABSTRACT Does the Ghanaian video-film industry possesses an opportunity for considerable economic growth? If so, what are the economic implications of a relatively large scale investment into Ghana’s film and video industry? This paper seeks to address these questions by examining the reasons behind the industry’s decline over the decades past and prescribing measures government and other stakeholders can take to promote the sustainability of the video-film industry. With the aid of schol...
ABSTRACT As the Ghanaian graduate labor market is increasingly becoming more competitive to keep up with tertiary institutions churning out 10,000’s of students annually, it has become essential for workers to not only find job roles, but to be retained in those job roles. In order to do this, one must consider the factors that influence the career choices of the graduate labor pool. This research studies “self-concept” specifically as a key factor in determining career choices made by ...
ABSTRACT Governments in Africa have eulogized free markets and the role of the private sector in economic growth and development. The private sector requires an enabling environment to thrive and flourish, thus the need for a vibrant capital market to improve the private sector‟s access to capital. In lieu of this, the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) has enabled businesses in Ghana and the government to raise long-term capital and helped investors to obtain liquidity, fair capital safety and div...