ABSTRACT Corporate social responsibility reporting (CSRR) has received huge attention in both academic and corporate settings, owing partly to the fact that it has been made mandatory in some jurisdictions and the idea that it has the potential of benefitting organizations in the long run. This thesis looked at how the biggest telecommunications companies in Africa report on their CSR via their corporate web sites. Drawing on inspirations from prior studies, this thesis looked at corporate so...
ABSTRACT Currently, the Government of Ghana (GoG) is encouraging consumers to patronise more locally produced items, including local rice. It is believed that this will provide economic, environmental, and social benefits to the local economy. The current study seeks to apply social marketing using a behavioural change theory (the theory of planned behaviour) to predict and understand factors influencing behavioural intention of urban consumers to purchase the locally produced rice. A conveni...
iii ABSTRACT Microcredit has been identified to be an effective tool for empowering women. Evidence from the literature suggests that access to microcredit has the power to improve their productive capacity. The La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly introduced the “Women in Development” program to provide credit to women groups to expand on their income generating activities. The main objective of this study was to assess the effect of microcredit on women empowerment. The study also sought ...
ABSTRACT This paper sought to test the weak-form market efficiency of the Ghana Stock Exchange and to establish whether the application of technical trading rules like the Variable Moving Average (VMA) on the Composite Index (CI) would be profitable during the periods January 2011 to December 2014. The study also provides evidence that active trading on the GSE can be profitable and can outperform the buy-hold-strategy adopted by a passive trader or investor. To establish market efficiency, t...
ABSTRACT The changing nature of work these days has brought about issues of psychological wellbeing of employees affected by organizational restructuring. In this regard, the present study investigated the mediating effects of pay satisfaction and employability on the relationship between perceived change management and employee wellbeing among some 274 employees of a recently integrated/merged revenue agencies into the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). A multi-stage quota and convenience sampli...
ABSTRACT This study was done to ascertain the psychosocial factors and their impact on unsafe abortion in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. One hundred (100) women who had ever had abortion(s) and were visiting the Family Planning Units of the Ridge Hospital and La General Hospital as well as the Obstetric and Gynaecological Unit of the 37 Military Hospital were the participants of the study with ages between 9 and 50 years. Data was collected using a questionnaire and analysed with the Logi...
ABSTRACT Sub-Saharan Africa has over the years witnessed the proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) within the sub-region. However, intra-regional trade remains considerably low around 10 percent of its trade with the rest of the world. This has led researchers to investigate whether these RTAs have been trade-creating or trade diverting. Nevertheless, these studies have not extended their analysis to investigate the effect of the membership of some dominant economies in their resp...
ABSTRACT Repeat pregnancies among teenage girls is a social problem confronting many countries, including Ghana. This study sought to: (a) find out factors contributing to repeat pregnancies among teenage mothers, (b) identify challenges faced by teenage mothers with repeat pregnancies, (c) explore the knowledge of teenage mothers with repeat pregnancies on contraceptives, and (d) ascertain the social support systems available to teenage mothers with repeat pregnancies in Ablekuma sub-Metropo...
ABSTRACT Governments of Ghana have endeavored over the years to promote the use of cleaner energy and stoves for domestic use, but about 70% of Ghanaian households still rely on biomass fuel for their main household energy sources. This, therefore, makes the adoption and use of improved cook stoves (ICSs) important to curtail the adverse health, economic and environmental effects associated with using biomass fuel and traditional cook stoves. The aim of the study was to assess the status of a...
ABSTRACT Urbanization is recognized as a key driver of rapid economic growth, structural transformation and poverty reduction. The enormous body of both theoretical and empirical knowledge widely supports the idea of a positive relationship between urbanization and economic growth. However, at the core of the existing debate is the causal direction. The first part of the study investigated the causal relationship between urbanization and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from the tw...
ABSTRACT The primary aim of this study was to examine the relationships between leadership styles and voluntary work behaviors of employees among selected banks in Ghana. Specifically, the objectives was to determine the extent to which leadership styles (transformational and transactional) predict employees‟ voluntary work behaviors (OCB and CWB); to examine the mediating effect of leaders‟ emotional intelligence on the leadership styles and voluntary work behaviors relationships; and to...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of investment in the Nigerian economy by making use of time series data for the period, 1970-2015. The study employed the auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) for the analysis. From the result, it is shown that exchange rate, interest rate, inflation rate, and total financial saving, all have a positive effect on investment whereas external debt has a negative effect on investment. Therefore, the Government should improve the...
Abstract This study examines empirical determinants of inflation dynamics in Nigeria between 1995 and 2018 fiscal years. It employed monthly data that were sourced from the Central bank of Nigerian Statistical Bulletin, 2018 edition. Several studies have examined inflation determinants in Nigeria for several periods, but the empirical findings of some of these studies are mixed in terms of the different forms of inflation. Headline inflation, which is the most, reported inflation in Newspaper...
ABSTRACT Social protection programmes are redistributive programmes carried out by various governments to enhance the livelihood of the poor and vulnerable in society. Unfortunately, these programmes are confronted with errors, fraud, and corruption (EFCs), thus rendering them ineffective. This study seeks to contribute to the existing knowledge gap in social accountability mechanisms within social intervention programmes. The study seeks to examine the extent of effectiveness of social accou...
ABSTRACT Training is one of the most pervasive methods for enhancing the productivity of individuals and communicating organizational goals to personnel (Arthur.W.Jnr, Bennet.W.Jnr, Edens. P.S. and Bel. S.T 2003). In the field of human resource management, training and development is the field concerned with organizational activity aimed at bettering the performance of individuals and groups in organizational settings. Training and Development is the framework for helping employees to develop...