ABSTRACT The study sought to test the hypothesis that foreign aid flows generate “Dutch Disease” in the recipient country which in this case is Ghana. Annual data covering the period 1983 to 2010 was collected and interpolated into quarterly series for the analysis of the study. The outcome of the study showed that foreign aid as well as government expenditure, real GDP and money supply had an appreciating effect on real exchange rate where as trade openness and terms of trade exert depr...
ABSTRACT This study examines the macroeconomic determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Ghana, using the Johansen Multivariate cointegration technique. Some elements ofthe Neoclassical and Eclectic approaches to the determinants ofFDI are used to develop a dynamic simultaneous equation model and then the system is estimated sirnuItaneously by using the Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) method. The Granger Non-causality test is used to determine how the endogenous variables...
ABSTRACT This study sought to determine the effects of off-farm economic activities on farm household income in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District in the Central Region of Ghana. A cross-sectional survey design was used and data was collected from farm household heads and their spouses in the district for the purpose of analysis. An interview schedule was used for the collection of the data from the respondents. In total 253 married farm households were interviewed. A bivariate probit mode...
ABSTRACT Considerable policy consensus concerning cash remittance as an operational model in the household food security policy dialogue has been established, yet, little knowledge base exists with regard to food remittances and its effect on food security. In view of this, the study focused on food remittance against the backdrop of remittance and food security. Specifically, the study examined spatial variability in food security outcomes across districts in Ghana, the impact of food remitt...
ABSTRACT Increasing public debt in Ghana has been a major concern to the nation. There are several factors that influence the public debt which includes the fiscal balance, that is either a deficit or a surplus. This study investigated the influence of fiscal balance on total public debt. The results reveal that fiscal deficit increases total debt and domestic debt while surpluses lead to an increase in the external debt though the long run relationship between fiscal deficit and external de...
ABSTRACT The availability of reliable energy supply to meet the exigency of the growing population in West Africa is important in achieving sustainable development and reducing poverty in the continent. Diverse studies have sought to examine the link between energy consumption and growth. However, the consensus with reference to the causal link if any between energy consumption and growth is not explicit. Conflicting conclusions have been espoused on the energy-growth nexus and this has neces...
ABSTRACT This study determined the effect of livestock ownership on household poverty in Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions of Ghana. Specifically, the study determined the effects of medium-sized and large-sized ownership of livestock on household poverty and examined the effect of type of livestock (cattle, sheep and poultry) ownership on household poverty together with the joint effect between size and type of livestock ownership on household poverty. Employing the Ordinary Least ...
ABSTRcr Recent e;dence suggests that the burden of new HIV infection in developing COtmtries is concentrated among YOtmg people even \;th the inc=in!! knowledge of how to protect oneself from infection. :-'Iany scholars have e.,:plained this tmder the economic thesis that the daily situations of economic and social disadvanta"cre that characterize the lives of many YOtmg people push them to indulge in ris!.:y sex"Ua! behayiours that increase their risk of contracting HIV. 1bis study empirical...
ABSTRACT The increasing competition among banks in Ghana is largely explained by the liberalisation and implementation of the various financial sector reforms recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. In today’s competitive world, one of the challenges facing many managers in the banking sector is how to increase business market shares and profits concurrently. Although the correlation between market shares and profitability has been sustained over the years, ...
ABSTRACT The Ghana Health Service adopted a number of policies and strategies which were aimed at improving antenatal care attendance in the country. In addition, there were relative improvement in facilities and professionals at these facilities. Inspite of these improvements, the national antenatal care coverage continued to be irregular, though some regions made some remarkable improvements. Antenatal care was thought to have an impact on the reduction of maternal and perinatal mortality, ...
ABSTRACT This study determines whether or not the effect of physical exercise on blood pressure is only direct as most studies posit or is also mediated by some socioeconomic factors, including the wealth status of the household. The study used data on 13,784 individuals from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS) and employed two models, namely the multinomial logit and the multiple regression models. The multinomial model was used to determine, while controlling for other varia...
Abstract Focusing on the #NoToSocialMediaBill Twitter protest against the introduction of The Frivolous Petitions (Prohibition, etc.) Bill 2015, in Nigeria, this chapter examined the composition of the loudest voices that framed the protest, explored the level of engagement of those voices with the content of the bill, and analysed the nature and outcome of the protesters' reactions to the bill. To achieve these objectives, the study adopted a mixed method sequential design consisting of qua...
ABSTRACT The study sought to empirically investigate the effects of microfinance on small scale businesses in Ghana using Keta municipality as a case study. An ordinary least squares method was used, based on primary data of 200 small scale business entrepreneurs, 100 of whom have taken loans and 100 without loans. A Cobb-Douglas production function was first estimated to find the effect of microfinance loans on productivity. Afterward, a profit function was used to estimate the effects of mi...
ABSTRACT This thesis addresses three themes: (1) assess household poverty in Ghana and Kenya; (2) compare poverty methods and examine the poverty-reducing role of social protection in Ghana; and (3) examine rural-urban catch-up in child poverty in Ghana. The last five rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys of Ghana and Kenya and the sixth round of Ghana Living Standards Survey were used. The First Order Dominance, Multidimensional Poverty Index, Multiple Overlapping Deprivation and Fost...
ABSTRACT This study sought to determine and compare the technical efficiency in pineapple production among exporters and non-exporters using primary data collected from four districts of Central Region of Ghana. Results from the Cobb-Douglass stochastic frontier model and a farm-specific efficiency model showed that for the exporters land and labor had a positive influence on technical efficiency while chemicals and fertilizers, planting materials and annual capital charge had a negative effe...