ABSTRACT Public financial management concerns the efficiency and effectiveness of the use of public resources based on approved budgets. The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of public financial management and service delivery at the local government level using Ejura Sekyedumase Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti region of Ghana as a case. The specific objectives were to establish the relationship between policy based budgeting and servic...
ABSTRACT Job Satisfaction, no matter the parameters that one may use in describing it, has been found to be an important contributory factor in productivity. The perception that workers have about their jobs may have an influence on their attitude and commitment towards the job. This study focused on job satisfaction among the junior and senior staff of the Balme Library, University of Ghana, Legon. It aimed at determining the factors affecting job satisfaction, the extent or level of...
ABSTRACT Since the revival of the concept three decades ago by East European social scientists, the assumptions have been that the notion of civil society could be useful for public policy formulation and democratization. The key hypothesis of scholars, activists and donors is that civil society is the hitherto missing key to sustained political reforms, legitimate states and governments, improved governance, viable state and society, state-economy relationship and the prevention of the polit...
ABSTRACT The chief thrust of this work is to examine the stimulus banks novelties has on fiscal performance in Ghana profitable banks listed. This research selected these banks registered on the interchange market to avoid issues of subjective outcomes which may lead to skeptical issues later on. Specifically, the study sought to: look at, the influence bank innovations have on net interest margin in Ghana commercial banks, scrutinize the stimulus banks n...
ABSTRACT The thesis examined the career and educational aspirations of secondary school students in Ghana. The study, which was a cross-sectional descriptive survey specifically, aimed at determining the type of jobs students wish to do, sectors of the economy and places they wish to work, relationship of their career aspirations to the manpower needs of Ghana as well as factors influencing their career aspirations. Students' intention and desire to pursue further studies as well as the...
ABSTRACT The debate about reinventing foreign aid has gone beyond affirming that foreign aid works or does not work. The history of aid has been a mixed one: some have worked in certain contexts, and some have not worked. This essay explores what type of aid has worked and what has not. Under what conditions can aid work effectively, and what type of aid, and how can we make aid effective and what type of actors can make aid effective ? Aid has worked when it is targeted, specific, ...
Abstract The objective of the research conducted for the purpose of this report was to collect data that gave an overview of the socio-economic profiles of constituents across the Northern Province which could be assessed to analyse voting behaviour and identify key action points for future programme work and research. There is very little data currently available in Sierra Leone, especially research that focusses on political participation and governance related issues. Exit poll surveys and...
ABSTRACT There is overwhelming evidence in empirical literature that in the presence of market imperfections, investments of financially constraint firms become sensitive to the availability of internal finance. There are also contradictory evidences regarding the pattern of the observed investment cash flow sensitivity. However, most of the empirical work on the responsiveness of firms’ investment to cash flow was done using data from developed markets. This study examines not jus...
Social capital has been proposed as a useful concept for the understanding of epidemics of Emerging Infectious Diseases, such as the epidemic of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) which occurred in West Africa in 2013 – 2015. This paper reviews some of the literature around the social capital concept, highlights the contested nature of that concept, and considers how the concept might be best applied to the study of the recent EVD crisis. It is argued that the emphasis in such studies must always be...
Objectives: To find out the relationship of domestic violence with depression, anxiety and quality of life in married women in hospitals of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Methods: This co-relational study was conducted in Rawalpindi Institute of Health Sciences from January 2019 to December 2019. All the females’ patients who were the victim of domestic violence were the population of the study. Consecutive non-probability sampling technique was used for selection of sampling from the target pop...
ABSTRACT This research dissertation: Personnel Recruitment and Primordial Factors in the Civil Service ; A Case Study of Kogi State Civil Service Commission stems up as a result of the interest of the researcher in the management of Civil Service. The existence of the civil service carries responsibilities of not only maintaining law and order, but also ensuring that life is made comfortable for the majority of citizens in a country. This is the reason why every government is ever compel...
The theme of this paper is to highlighting the political, economic, democratic, historical dilemmas and realities that occurred in the Ethiopian political system in 2018 through popular rebellion; futuristic hinders and chances of the ruling party to sustain its popularity and prosperity of the country. Talk of Ethiopia conjures a whole range of metaphors and contradictory perceptions and misconceptions. With the ascendance to power of Dr. Abiy Ahmed, as Prime Minister of Ethiopia on Apri...
ABSTRACT The auditor's role is conceived as a protector of the market. What distinguishes the profession accounting worldwide is the acceptance of responsibility to act in the interest of the public. This position can only be maintained if the accountants act in agreement with the rules of the profession and demonstrate that their services are qualitative and in compliance with professional and ethical standards. The purpose of this thesis is to present a the system of indicators for the...
Introduction Roles of Government Objectives of tax system Principles of Tax system: - Factors that policy maker should consider to meet objectives of tax system: Problems faced by policy maker while designing tax system: - Conclusion References
Abstract We investigate the firms’ specific attributes that determine the difference in speed of adjust- ment (SOA) towards the cash holdings target in the Scandinavian countries: Denmark, Norway and Sweden. We examine whether Scandinavian firms maintain an optimal level of cash holdings and determine if the active cash holdings management is associated with the firms’ higher SOA and lower adjustment costs. Our findings substantiate that a higher level of off-target cost...