INTRODUCTION In a modern economy, there is distinction between the surplus economic units and the deficit economic units and inconsequence a separation of the savings investment mechanism. This has necessitated the existence of financial institution whose jobs include the transfer of funds from savers to investors. It is generally expected that developing countries, facing a scarcity of capital, will acquire external debt to supplement domestic saving (Malik et al, 2010; Aluko and Arowolo, 20...
Abstract This study set out to examine the role of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Ghana in resolving the transportation challenges in Accra. The study employed qualitative research approach with semistructured interviews as its main instrument of data collection. In all, a sample size of thirty includes policy makers of Bus Rapid Transit affectionately called Ayalolo at the Ministry of Transport, management members of the BRT. The study was conducted only in Accra, where the BRT has been pi...
Agricultural products like Cocoa, Palm Kernel/ Oil, Groundnut, Cotton, Timber amongst others, formed the bedrock of the Nigerian economy in the pre-independence period. Hence, non-oil exports sustained the Nigerian economy and served as the source of the country's foreign exchange earnings from around 1 900 up to 1965. However, the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantity resulted to a decline in the agricultural sector. Revenue generated from the non oil export began to declin...
Globally, youths are not only seen as essential part of an emerging society and are regarded as its strength and greatest asset in the quest for development. They are also an integral and instrumental workforce that must be carried along in the scheme of nation building. In fact, it comes to reason that no country can survive politically, economically and technologically without vibrant youths, given their pride of place as the productive working class. There are 200million people in Af...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine how the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has impacted on enrolment, attendance and retention of children in some beneficiary Basic Schools in Ga South Municipality.The target population for the study was sixty-eight (68) participating schools in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region and other stakeholders of the programme. The Public Relation Officer of GSFP, District Desk Officer, School Implementation Committee member, Ci...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine how the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has impacted on enrolment, attendance and retention of children in some beneficiary Basic Schools in Ga South Municipality.The target population for the study was sixty-eight (68) participating schools in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region and other stakeholders of the programme. The Public Relation Officer of GSFP, District Desk Officer, School Implementation Committee member, Ci...
ABSTRACT Performance management remains a test for numerous organizations. The study sought to investigate performance management implementation in Ghana’s Local Government using the Sefwi Wiawso Municipal Assembly as a case study. Specifically, the study investigated the current performance management system of the Sefwi Wiawso Municipal Assembly as well as the challenges faced by the Assembly in implementing its performance management system. The study adopted a qualitative approach and ...
ABSTRACT This study focused on actualizing Sustainable Development Goal 4 in Nanumba South District of Ghana. Ghana adopted the SDGs in 2015 and their implementation was launched in January, 2016. It is expected that both national and district level developmental plans are aligned to them. To achieve the research objectives, the study adopted the qualitative research approach and a case study research design to purposely interview officials of the Nanumba South District Directorate of Educat...
ABSTRACT Police are very critical societal agents for the attainment, preservation and promotion of security in society. In order to maintain order and enforce the law in Ghana, the police have been constitutionally and legally endowed with enormous powers. While these powers aim at enhancing security and development in society, if they are not properly regulated, they may become a threat to democracy, development, and human rights. Hence, police accountability mechanisms are designed to ensu...
ABSTRACT The health sector in Ghana has undergone much change over the past decades to improve the quality of care. This research sought to to find patients perception of care at the Greenlawn hospital An exploratory research design was adopted in the conduct of this research work. A sample size of eighty-five (85) patients were chosen and took part in this survey. Donabedian’s structure, process and outcome theory for service quality evaluation underpinned the conceptual framework in this ...
The issues of economic reforms, deregulation, liberalisation or economic adjustment programme began in the early 80s, particularly in the African continent. Even though the terms are used synonymously, there are d differing emphasis and applications in government pol icies, journalistic and economic parlance. Whatever the case may be, the application of these terms began with the ac.loption, at least in the Afric::in co11ti11e11t, or the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) p...
Public .relations practice has therefore, been with man since the Stone Age with modifications being only in the tools and techniques of practice. As a profession, the term public relations was first used by Dorman Eaton, a lawyer in an address to graduating students of Yale University, USA in 1882 while President Thomas Jefferson (USA) is credited as being the first head of government to have used it in his seventh union address to the American Congress in 1807 (Newson et-al, 1981 :23).
It is a long held belief that the greatest area of waste, corruption and misappropriation in the public sector is on procuremen t and contract management. These executive excesses are largely a tribute ted to lack of proper regulation and adequate control. This research is designed to look into the issue. The en tire resea rch work wa s focu sed on the effect of the govern men t due process policy on public procuremen t and con tract management using Small and Medium Enterprises Devel...
Poverty reduction has been a long concern fol' all African co1mtl'ies since independence. The high incidence of po1·crty in Nigcl'ia has been a greatest obstacle to the development of the nation at large. This research work examined the role of the government in Poverty Alleviation Programmes in Nigeria in orde!' to reduce poverty to its minimum barest level. Questionnaire 111as used as instrument for gathering data for the research. The data collected were ana�y:::.ed using simple p...
ABSTRACT The strength of democracy is reflected in the “expressions of mass demands for better social safety nets especially in the sectors of health and education services. However, for mass demands to be translated into policy, there need to be an opportunity that numbers can mobilize, and that mobilization counts politically. The strength and quality of democracy makes it possible for civil society, popular organizations and political parties to emerge and consolidate as organizations th...