ABSTRACT Rural households in developing countries have for a long time been perceived as farm households, and that they receive their income predominantly from agriculture. There is growing evidence however in the rural livelihoods literature to show that rural households in developing countries derive a significant proportion of their incomes from non-farm activities, and income from this source is growing. In addition, nonagricultural activities constitute the main occupation of an increas...
ABSTRACT In Ghana healthcare institutions are not anticipated to be efficient but due to the rising demands on hospital reimbursement levels, focus on efficient operations is becoming more vital. This study compared technical efficiency levels of private and public clinics and hospitals in Central Region. A sample of 34 private and public hospitals and clinics in the Central Region of Ghana was used for the study. The main estimation technique employed was the Data Envelopment Analysis, with ...
ABSTRACT The countless incidences of injury, death, frequent absenteeism and huge compensation costs that characterized most Ghanaian industry are worries to the country’s economic development. This draws from the fact that these negative implications of unhealthy and unsafe working environment continue to plague labour productivity in the country and have the tendency of retarding economic growth. At least 7 per cent of Ghana’s GDP is spent on solving problems related to the improper man...
ABSTRACT Cocoa swollen shoot virus disease has severely hampered the production of cocoa and the economy of Ghana since pre-colonial days. This study set out to find the impact of the cocoa swollen shoot disease on the living standards of cocoa farmers in Ghana. A structured questionnaire was used to seek information from cocoa farmers in Chorichori in the Sefwi Akontombra District of the Western Region of Ghana where the disease is currently epicenter. All households in the community were in...
Abstract The employment generation capacity of the formal sector comprising the public and organized private sectors in Nigeria is shrinking. The informal sector therefore offers a ray of hope for employment and earnings for urban unskilled and semi skilled labour. The promotion of informal sector activities by the government requires an insight into their mode of operation for better policy targeting. This paper therefore examines the operational characteristics, financing, training, employ...
ABSTRACT The high maternal and child mortality rates of 500 per 100,000 and 128 per 1,000 live births are major research and health policy concerns often caused by inequity in utilisation of basic maternal and child healthcare in Nigeria. Although existing literature provided estimates of determinants of maternal and child healthcare utilisation, inequity in maternal and child healthcare utilisation has not been given adequate attention. This study, therefore, examined horizontal inequity in...
ABSTRACT The study examined the growth impact of government consumption, interest and transfer payments in Ghana. A quarterly time series data from 1984 to 2015 was utilised. The maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) technique was employed, and cointegration among the variables was established within the framework of autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL). A Pair-wise Granger-causality test was adopted to explore the direction of causality between government expenditure components (consumption, ...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Ghana using annual data for the period 1971 to 2010 by employing autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration. The study found a cointegrating relationship among the variables when real GDP was used as the dependent variable and no cointegrating relationship among the variables when electricity consumption was used as the dependent variable. The bounds test results revealed ...
ABSTRACT Inflation Targeting as a monetary policy has been adopted widely by many countries both developed and developing. The Bank of Ghana, adopted Inflation Targeting in 2002 but made an official announcement of its use in 2007, making Ghana the second country to adopt Inflation Targeting in Africa after South Africa. This study sought to determine the effects of Inflation Targeting on the Inflation Rate, Economic Growth, the Exchange Rate and the growth in Money Supply of Ghana. The study...
ABSTRACT Financial institutions are the main intermediation channels between saving and investment in a country. Bank efficiency allows for mobilizing of savings from diverse sources and allocate it to more productive activities for economic growth. This study carries out a comparative analysis of technical efficiency for listed and unlisted banks in Ghana. Using panel annual financial data from eleven (11) banks starting from 2009 to 2013, the study employed the Stochastic Frontier Approach ...
ABSTRACT It was until the early 1990’s that economists began to place greater emphasis on the role of human capital development as the basic rock for development. Using a multi-stage sampling technique, the researcher interviewed a sample of 868 households in rural Ghana. The study adopted unitary model of intra household decision model to examine parents’ expectation and investment in children’s education in rural Ghana. The study revealed that the probability that children getting the...
ABSTRACT High and rising inflation is not good news with a resultant general dislike for it. Indeed, Inflation has very significant effects on the economy and the welfare of the population. It is generally accepted that when inflation is too high it has detrimental effects such as wiping away savings and even redistributing incomes among others. However, when it is too low too it could discourage the investments required to propel economic growth and increase welfare. Monetary policy has been...
ABSTRACT The principal objective of this paper is to ascertain and examine the presence of gender gaps in the performance of SMEs in Ghana, and to determine the contribution of financial inclusion to the gender performance gap of 1225 SMEs observed in the Gender and Enterprise development in Africa survey in 2015. Using the Unconditional Quantile Decomposition Technique, the findings from the study revels statistically significant gender gaps at the selected quantiles. Financial incl...
ABSTRACT It was until the early 1990’s that economists began to place greater emphasis on the role of human capital development as the basic rock for development. Using a multi-stage sampling technique, the researcher interviewed a sample of 868 households in rural Ghana. The study adopted unitary model of intra household decision model to examine parents’ expectation and investment in children’s education in rural Ghana. The study revealed that the probability that children getting the...
The study examined the growth impact of government consumption, interest and transfer payments in Ghana. A quarterly time series data from 1984 to 2015 was utilised. The maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) technique was employed, and cointegration among the variables was established within the framework of autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL). A Pair-wise Granger-causality test was adopted to explore the direction of causality between government expenditure components (consumption, transfer ...