ABSTRACT The main aim of the study is to determine the effects of Corporate Governance on efficiency and productivity performance of insurance firms in Ghana. The study employed a panel data of fourteen (14) life insurers and fifteen (15) non-life insurers to assess the efficiency and productivity of insurers in Ghana between the years from 2005 to 2014. Apart from the static efficiency measure, the study assessed the dynamic productivity of the insurance firms by using the Cost Malmquist Ind...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to examine the nexus between board diversity and intellectual capital(IC) on risk and return of banks in Ghana. Board diversity is proxy by the nationality of the board of directors of banks in Ghana, Intellectual capital by Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC) and risk and return by Z-score and return of assets (ROA) respectively. Data is collected from the annual report of twenty-nine (29) universal banks in Ghana between the years 2000 to 2015. Panel regres...
ABSTRACT The objective of this research mainly is to investigate the relationship between Supplier Orientation and Business Performance (BP) in the mobile telephony industry in Ghana and also to examine the moderating role of trust on the relationship. The study identified three key characteristics of supplier-oriented firm namely, buyer-seller relationship, commitment to relationship and communication. It also identified other measurements of trust such as credibility and benevolence. Other ...
ABSTRACT SSNIT pension benefit is the primary source of retirement income among formal sector workers and most recently informal sector workers in Ghana. It is also the most comprehensive form of social security among formal sector workers and pensioners in Ghana. But the SSNIT pension benefit is mostly meager and inadequate especially in financing consumption expenditure of pensioners and their dependants. This creates a consumption-pension income disparity which this study sorts to investig...
ABSTRACT Accessibility by farmers to is considered as a challenge.. This study explores the difficulties encountered by crop farmers in accessing micro finance assistance to boost their production. Generally, the objective of this study is to establish the extent to which microfinance institutions’ services are accessible to crop farmers and the underlying factors influencing the delivery in Somanya in the Yilo Krobo District. The study adopted a two-stage sampling approach of cluster and r...
ABSTRACT The Princess Marie Louise Hospital (PML) caters for malnourished tr children suffering from Kwashiorkor, Marasmus or Marasmic Kwashiorkor with food and drug therapy. All cases admitted are treated with free food nutrients. In addition, drugs which are used as supplements are however paid for by the caretakers. The main problem that the research seeks to investigate is the frequent inadequacy of its essential supplies namely, food nutrients and drugs, the consumption of which is belie...
ABSTRACT Although School Feeding Programmes (SFP) is seen as an essential aspect of child growth and holistic development, evidence suggests that SFP’s alone cannot determine educational outcomes of school children. Studies have identified a strong relationship between home environment factors and school children’s learning outcomes. In Ghana, the School Feeding Programme targets children from poor and vulnerable households who attend Government public schools. Evidence on school feeding ...
ABSTRACT Firms or companies merge or acquire each other in order to create synergies. Mergers and acquisitions normally occur when firms or companies are facing financial challenges and want to either survive or sell the firm early to get a good price. This study sought to evaluate the impact of M&As on the financial performance of some selected Ghanaian banks namely GCB, Ecobank, Access and Republic banks. The researcher employed descriptive research design and relied mainly on secondary dat...
ABSTRACT Although prison inmates are often seen as burdens on society, as their criminal activity has made them unproductive citizens, rehabilitation programmes within prisons give inmates the ability to become productive citizens upon their release. Such programmes, which focus on providing inmates with skills and knowledge, have the potential to greatly affect their integration back into society post-release, thus decreasing the likelihood that they will commit similar crimes in the future....
ABSTRACT Internal democracy, also known as intra-party democracy, refers to the level and methods of including party members in decision making and deliberation within the party structure. The debate as to whether internal democracy enhances the performance of political parties in elections has left scholars divided. The relevance of internal democracy to Ghana’s body politic lies in the fact that democracy within political parties has since the return to constitutional rule in 1993 been a ...
ABSTRACT Background: Diabetes mellitus has been inconsistently associated with reduced level of pulmonary function. Inadequate glycemic control, a longer duration of the disease, obesity and markers of microangiopathy may be associated with decreased lung function in the Ghanaian with type 2 Diabetes mellitus. General Aim: To study pulmonary function as assessed by spirometry and factors that influence lung function in a population of Ghanaian type 2 Diabetes mellitus subjects. Methodology: O...
ABSTRACT The current study used an interpretative phenomenological approach to explore how victims of sexual abuse and their caregivers experienced either the court or non-court processes of adjudication in Ghana. A psycho-socio-legal ecological framework was used to understand the multi-faceted layers by which the phenomenon of the abuse and the justice process were experienced. For both victims and caregivers in either the court or non-court processes, the research sought to answer question...
ABSTRACT Brand Selection of Higher Education by students has become an important concept in this service institution. This is basically due to the fact that students are paying higher tuition fees especially for their postgraduate studies and as such they increasingly see themselves as customers in the service delivery and encounter process. This research centred on postgraduate students brand selection of Ghana‘s Premier Business School also known as University of Ghana Business School (UG...
ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to determine the difference in flora diversity in two farming systems and how the diversity contributes to sustainable livelihoods of cocoa farmers in an era of changing climate in Atwima Mponua District of Ghana. Sixteen organic and sixteen conventional cocoa farms were selected in Gyereso and Pasoro in the district. In each farm, flora were sampled to include three life forms viz., trees, shrubs and herbs. Households were also interviewed with a structured ...
ABSTRACT This research investigated the role of risk and protective factors in how disaster victims adapt to the impacts of the adversity. This adaptation was examined at two levels: posttraumatic distress (PTD) and posttraumatic growth (PTG). Four risk factors and five protective factors were examined. The concurrent nexted mixed methods approach with 336 sample from the population of 3rd June 2015 flood/fire disaster victims in Accra was used; 13 of which participated in both quantitative a...