ABSTRACT Wages and earnings have been a constant source of interest to labour economists. This study investigates the influence of non-pecuniary factors like personality traits, prestige, education, parents among others on occupational choice using primary data collected from a survey of 150 purposive sampled professionals in the entertainment and sports industry in Ghana. A multinomial logit (MNL) analysis was conducted to examine the significance and marginal effects of these non-pecuniary...
ABSTRACT Most of the studies relating banking activities and macroeconomic behavior of many nations focused on the effect of macroeconomic instability on banking sectors. This study rather examines the impact of banking instability on the Nigerian economy. Annual data were used ranging from 1980 to 2011 drawn from various data publication issues domestically and those outside the country. Variables taken into consideration in the course of analysis are those proxies to the banking instabilit...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of credit risk management enhances on the performance of the Nigerian banking industry with specific attention on management efficiency measured by return on asset (ROA) and return to shareholders measured by return on equity (ROE). The study is motivated by the increased concern based on research findings which seem to have isolated increasing portfolio of non-performing credit as a casual factor of bank failures globally. The validity of the abo...
ABSTRACT The effect of donor-funded interventions has been a subject of long standing debate over several years of donor support. This thesis focuses on donor-funded interventions and the activities of a professional accountancy organisation in Ghana. Specifically, the thesis explores and analyses how donor-funded interventions have influence the activities of a professional accountancy organisation in Ghana as well as soliciting the perceptions of stakeholders about the outcomes of the inte...
ABSTRACT Decentralisation comes with concepts such as fiscal decentralisation and autonomy which enjoins local governments to generate revenue from internal sources. The local government reforms in the 1990s and its subsequent Local Government Act in 1993 provide for a number of instruments to empower local governments in their local revenue generation. The internally generated funds (IGFs) are the own-sourced revenue of local governments in the country. It is revenue generated, accessed and...
ABSTRACT Health financing has become a topical issue among development practitioners in most developing countries. This has necessitated some countries introducing social health insurance schemes as a way of financing health. Health insurance schemes are recognized as a tool to finance health care provision in developing countries including Ghana. The health insurance scheme was introduced in Ghana with the purpose of reducing catastrophic health expenditures, improving access and also ensur...
ABSTRACT Rapid population growth, urbanization and its associated real estate growth lead landfills to compete with residential land use, especially in peri-urban. Though the effects of landfills on residential communities are well-known in literature, there are inconclusive findings in developing countries on the effects on living close by them. This study addresses this knowledge gap by exploring the effects of the Pantang landfills on residents around it. The objectives were to examine th...
ABSTRACT The issue of occupational health and safety (OHS) management is gaining significant attention among scholars in this millennium and there is the need for hospitals providing healthcare in developing countries to formulate policies and take the necessary actions that lead to creating a conducive work environment and improving productivity. This study, therefore, examined the effect of occupational health and safety on the service delivery of healthcare workers (nurses) in Ghana. The...
ABSTRACT This study was primarily to ascertain the relationship and by extension the effect that the depreciation of the Ghana Cedi has on the inflow of foreign direct investments (FDI) into Ghana. The study employs secondary data from the Central Bank of Ghana database, World Development Indicators, National Statistical Service and the Ministry of Energy over a seventeen-year period from 2002 to 2016. The correlation analysis established that; currency Depreciation has an inverse relation w...
ABSTRACT Consumers are often identified as a driving force for corporate organizations. In return, organizations perform Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to support its customers by reaching out to communities. However, little is known about the effect of CSR activities on consumers and their communities. One of the primary roles of CSR is to ensure the continuing commitment by corporate organizations to behave ethically and contribute to economic development, while improving...
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the investment returns of Social Security and Insurance Trust (SSNIT) of Ghana has performed over the years compared with the financial market and designs a method for the optimal asset mix strategy for the scheme under different risk preferences using stochastic linear programming approach. A time series of annual data on returns on equity and treasury bills from the year 2001 to 2013 were used to investigate the performance of the SSNIT investment compa...
ABSTRACT Ghana adopted the School Feeding Programme in 2005. The programme was designed to impact on agriculture, rural poverty and education by using domestically produced food items to provide at least one hot nutritious meal to school children in poor communities. The Birim South District Assembly started the programme in 2006/2007 academic year with four schools but as at the time of the study this number has increased to twenty three. The main objectives were: to assess the extent to whi...
ABSTRACT Over the last three decades Agriculture has gained enormous success in reducing poverty on a global scale. In Africa, much of the impetus behind the large and increasing support from governments, NGOs and benevolent agencies for the Agricultural sector including the Shea industry, hinge on the assumption that its economic and social impact are momentous and influential in alleviating poverty among the unskilled labour force most especially among the rural folks and its contribution ...
Abstract The econometric nexus among infrastructure growth, external debt and Exchange Rate in the SubSahara Africa region has been investigated. The study period covered 1980 to the year 2017 for 42 countries in the Sub-Sahara Africa region. The study utilized co-integration and Vector Error Correction Mechanism, a type of Panel Vector Autoregression to test the nexus between infrastructure growth, external debt, and real exchange. Granger causality test examines the causal nexus among the v...
ABSTRACT This study set out to investigate the effect of funding sources on the lending patterns of banks in Ghana. Using a large and representative sample of 22 banks operating in Ghana from 2005 to 2011, the study investigates the funding sources, the lending patterns of banks in Ghana as well as the effect of funding sources on lending patterns.The study made use of a panel data methodology using a panel corrected errors estimation technique. The findings of the study indicate that depos...