ABSTRACT The study was conducted to assess the effect of procurement practices on performance of private universities in Greater Accra. The study employed a descriptive survey research design and was supported by the quantitative research approach. The population included some 250 procurement officers and procurement heads of all the 43 accredited private universities in Greater Accra Region. Descriptive statistics (Mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentages) and inferential statisti...
ABSTRACT The study examined the effect of public expenditure on unemployment in Ghana using annual data for the period 1980 to 2016 by employing Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration. The study revealed that there is an inverse relationship between government consumption expenditure and unemployment rate. However, government capital expenditure and unemployment rate were found to be positively related. The study therefore established that the threshold of government...
ABSTRACT The paper aims to examine the impact of credit risk on the profitability of credit unions in Ghana. The specific objectives are: to examine the methods of measuring credit risk, examine the factors that influence credit standards of credit union, examine the relationship between credit risk and profitability and to assess the credit risk management strategies adopted by credit unions in Ghana. The research design adopted by the study was a descriptive research design. A sample size o...
ABSTRACT This dissertation focuses on the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) practices in the University of Cape Coast. The aim is to examine the OHS practices and to determine, the extent to which, the University had adhered to requirements of legislation governing occupational health and safety, assess the level of employee awareness of hazardous conditions associated with their work and make recommendations based on the findings to improve occupational health and safety practices. The s...
ABSTRACT The Current Account Balance (CAB) of Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries is characterised by persistent deficits, averaging -7.3%, -3.4%, and -2.4% as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product in 1981, 1995 and 2009, respectively. While there is a growing body of empirical literature on the determinants (focusing specifically on Real Exchange Rate (RER), external debt, Terms of Trade (TOT), among others) of deficit in the CAB, little attention has been devoted to the role of fiscal poli...
ABSTRACT The adoption of community policing-oriented strategy in Nigeria in 2004 has led to a shift in police training focus and curriculum contents. Studies on community policing-oriented training have largely been general in nature without paying much attention to the training content, competence of trainers and post-training challenges. This study therefore, assessed the perceived influence of community policing-oriented training on police interactions with the public in crime prevention ...
ABSTRACT The average international tourists arrival per thousand populations for the period 2000 to 2009 was 7 in Nigeria compared to 22 in Ghana. The major sources of these receipts were business tourists from France, United Kingdom and United State of America. Government efforts at increasing international tourism demand as an alternative source of non-oil revenue is yet to boost the country’s tourist arrivals. Previous studies have investigated the economic potential of Nigeria’s tour...
Abstract The second West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ), comprising The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, was initiated in 1999 to fast-track the common monetary policy objective of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). However, uncertainties about the economic implications of the policy have been major obstacles to regional integration. Economists and policymakers are yet to agree on the potential costs and benefits of a common currency. Available empirical st...
ABSTRACT Street begging is a social problem in Nigeria. Although studies have been extensively conducted on street beggars in Nigeria, sufficient attention has not been devoted to transnational street begging as a distinct phenomenon. The continual influx of transnational street beggars into Nigeria makes the investigation into the dynamics and patterns of transnational street begging imperative. The study examined the socio-demographic profile of transnational street beggars in Lagos and Ib...
ABSTRACT Despite the emphasis on and potential benefits of local participatory structures and service provision In community development., there have been Inconsistent responses in different localities. While some localities are reportedly enthusiastic, contribute to and enjoy the benefits of participatory structures, others have been lukewarm or gravely . .inactive. This appears to be as a result of community perceptions of the potential benefits from participation. Therefore, using qualitat...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the prospects and challenges of Ghana’s current industrialization policy the 1D1F, using the Akuapem North Municipal Assembly (ANMA) as a case. Using qualitative methodologies, the case study design was used. Primary data for the study was collected by interviews, and they were supplemented with secondary data from scholarly materials, reports, and bulletins. The study found that three 1D1F factories have been set up in the municipality so far. The roles pla...
ABSTRACT Corporate governance generally look at the financial, market and efficiency performance of banks, however this study attempts to focus on bank productivity and corporate governance. The current study identifies the effect of corporate governance on bank productivity change of foreign-owned and domestic banks. The study adopts the nonparametric DEA-based Luenberger productivity indicator by Chamber, Chung and Fare (1996) to estimate bank productivity of twenty nine universal banks in ...
ABSTRACT Nigeria’s crises of development are more evident in her persistently poor electric power regime. This paper focuses on the consequences of use of gasoline generators as alternative source of energy among business operators in Ibadan. Data were collected from 543 questionnaire responses, 15 In-depth Interviews and 6 Focus Group Discussions. Findings revealed that 83.6 percent of the respondents often utilized gasoline generators and 76.8 percent could not do without it. While the r...
ABSTRACT Nigeria’s federal public service had been subjected to a series of reforms since the reinventing government ideas came with the structural adjustment programmes in the late 1980s and became fully embraced in 1999 as part of democratic reforms. More recently, the reforms have been driven by the need to make the public service supportive of the government’s vision of a globally competitive economy. This broad goal of global competitiveness provides a basis for evaluating the reform...
ABSTRACT Failure of people living with HIV/AIDS to disclose their HIV serostatus can place their sexual partners at risk. The current study examined HIV serostatus disclosure and its relationship to risky sexual behaviours in 69 sexually active, heterosexual, married (62%) or cohabiting (38%) patients recently diagnosed as HIV positive. Results show that 78% had not disclosed their HIV serostatus to their sexual partners and 46% had no knowledge of their sexual partner's serostatus. Compare...