ABSTRACT This study, the Transition from juvenile delinquency to adulthood criminality; The Predisposing factors sought to understand the transitions embedded in the offending trajectories of Ghanaian juvenile delinquents who were in their adulthood. Specifically, the study addresses four key research questions, namely how does the interplay of structural background factors and processes of informal social control mechanisms predispose individuals to crime in childhood? how does an individual...
ABSTRACT This thesis investigates the link between Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) as well as firm performance and ERM in the Ghanaian banking industry. The study attempts to construct two barometers; AML and ERM barometers using PCA methodology to gauge levels of compliance and adoption. The global financial system continues to be plagued with uncertainties that need effective dynamic operational risk management programmes in order to ensure financial institu...
ABSTRACT Political brand architecture management is described as a strategic approach of arranging and rearranging the political brand elements in a way that best meets the unique characteristics of the target voter. The idea behind this approach, which is borrowed from the brand architecture theory in branding, is to ensure that political parties do due diligence in allocating campaign resources effectively and appropriately. Although several studies have been conducted in both the Western a...
ABSTRACT The global demand for accountability has led to governments all over the world reforming their public sectors in order to comply with this global wave. When there is accountability in the public sector, the people to whom the accounts are rendered to will consider the institutions legitimate and will contribute their efforts for the overall success of the organizations. Despite the fact that there exist legislations for the ordinary citizens to hold public officials to account for th...
ABSTRACT Inflation is a major macroeconomic issue in Ghana, although there have been times when it seemed to have been managed. This is evident in the periods such as June 2010, when Ghana attained a single-digit of 9.5%. However, there appears to be a fundamental problem in the management of inflation, in other words, inflation seem not to be tractable. The evidence from many studies conducted on inflation indicated that the causes of inflation are many and varied. However, the main thrust o...
ABSTRACT This thesis focuses on how innovation in firms can be developed and implemented under different conditions to produce long-term benefits for service firms using data from Ghana. Employing different methodological approach and analytical techniques, the thesis provides the following robust findings: first, customer demand, regulatory regime, competitive intensity, organizational culture and leadership determine service innovation propensity in service firms. Second, unlike previous st...
ABSTRACT The study explores health seeking behaviour among people suffering from cardiovascular disorders in the New Juaben Municipality of Ghana, as a result of relationship between their personal experiences and their cultural worldview. This study was undertaken in an environment predominantly inhabited by Akans who hold the notion that health is maintained when there is a harmonious relationship between the individual and the environment and that there is no distinction between the physic...
ABSTRACT Decades of rapidly growing urban population, the growth of a business and middle class with money to invest, and an expanding private sector with large investment capital and the ability and willingness to pay high prices for property have resulted in rapid commoditisation of land in the Ga State. Concomitant with these are highly insecure land ownership, land litigation and conflict, poor land use planning and enforcement of land laws. Investigating the processes by which communal a...
ABSTRACT The study sought to establish how SME’s competitiveness, access to capital, information accessibility and Legal requirements pose a challenge to SME’s participation in public procurement market in Ghana. The study design was a descriptive and targeted a population of 1,000 SMEs in the Northern Region with 300 SME employees sampled. A total of 18 members of nine (9) procurement committee of the respective institutions were sampled to confirm the findings from the SMEs. Structure...
ABSTRACT The demand for rice continues to outstrip supply in Ghana, making the country a net importer of the commodity. Low productivity due to poor technology dissemination and adoption by rice farmers is said to be the major reason for the supply deficit. The main objective of this study was therefore, to draw the link between agricultural technology transfer mechanisms, adoption and technical efficiency of rice farmers in northern Ghana. Specifically, the study assessed various agricultu...
Abstract The study analyzed macroeconomic determinants of remittances in Southern Africa and made use of annual data for the period ranging from 2003 to 2016. The macroeconomic determinants used include: remittances themselves, the inflation rate, GDP growth rate, the nominal exchange rate, broad money and age dependency ratio. In doing so, the study further analyzed cyclicality and the volatility of remittances in the region in order to get a more rounded perspective. In seeking to meet its...
ABSTRACT The primary objective of the study is to assess both the demand and supply side factors that hinder Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) in Namibia to gain access to finance. This is a case study of SMEs of Prosperita Industrial Park II in Windhoek. Four commercial banks, SME Bank and the Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and SME Development were also included in this study. The study employs both quantitative and qualitative methods, whereby a questionnaire and interviews were...
ABSTRACT Poverty is one of the most captivating challenges facing most developing countries and Ghana is no exception. There seems to be a wide gap between the haves and the have not. To curb poverty, micro-finance has emerged as an antidote to the problem of poverty. Micro-finance encompasses micro-credit, micro-insurance and micro-savings. The SIF has therefore emerged as an institution that champions poverty reduction in its operation area and has adopted microfinance as one of the vehi...
ABSTRACT Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations which exits when certain sections of people cannot satisfy their basic primary needs in terms of food, cloth and shelter. Poverty and the poor are always associated with resourcelessness, choicelessness, insecurity and deprivation which create incapacities in the pursuit of dignified life in a given society for a person, household, group or community. The purpose of this study was to investigate the poverty si...
ABSTRACT The thesis is about the attraction and retention strategy implemented by the Botswana Public Service. The strategy, which is a scarce skills allowance, is intended to attract and retain Botswana Public service employees who possess skills which are scarce in terms of the Botswana Public Service. This allowance has been in place since April 2008 after the realisation that the public service was challenged with attracting and retaining employees with scarce skills. These skills include...