ABSTRACT Small and medium-scale enterprises (SME) are significant contributors to the development efforts of developing nations like Ghana. Yet their high failure rate continues to intrigue academics, policy makers, SME owners and managers. Scholars have used many approaches and their associated theories to understand the phenomenon yet one theory that has received little attention regarding the survival of SMEs is the social network theory. This thesis focuses on four network mechanisms of r...
ABSTRACT Rural livelihoods have been increasingly moving away from agrarian to non-agrarian. For mineral rich countries, attention has been on mineral extraction which has offered numerous entrepreneurial opportunities. The small-scale mining sector, compared to the large-scale sector, is particularly important as it offers several more opportunities for employment of the youth. The youth, who are affected by contracting public sector, turn to small-scale mining which is labour intensive. The...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study is to examine the impact of working capital management on the performance of some selected listed manufacturing companies in Ghana. To achieve this, 10 manufacturing firms listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange were employed. Data was sourced from firm annual financial report for a period of Nine (9) years from 2009-2017. The panel regression model was used for the analysis. With two performance indicators; return on asset and return on equity, the study found th...
ABSTRACT Minimum capital requirement is significant in improving banks’ performance and minimizing the lending behaviour, thus it is vitally important to regulate financial institutions such as bank in order for them not take on excess leverage and become insolvent. The objective of this study is to assess the effect of minimum capital requirement on profitability and lending behavior of banks in Ghana. The study employs pooled panel data analysis with quantitative research approach, as wel...
ABSTRACT This study empirically examines the effect of Central Government transfers to Local Assemblies on their ability to internally generate revenue in Ghana. The study used data from the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development for 216 districts in Ghana from 2013 to 2017. Employing panel data and using random effects and fixed effects estimation techniques in estimating the models and correcting for serial correlation and heteroskedasticity, the study found no significant relat...
ABSTRACT Pension reforms in Ghana have been carried out over the years with the emphasis always on the benefits to be paid to the members of the scheme. Extant literature on the current three tier pension scheme in Ghana indicates much that attention has not been paid to the scheme’s sustainability and solvency as well as the financial viability of SSNIT. The study found to examine the extent to which the current reforms have affected the financial viability of SSNIT as an institution and a...
ABSTRACT Motivated by the need to analyze the effect of effective corporate governance mechanisms on the enhancement of the loan quality of banks in emerging economies, this study aims to analyze the effects of executive compensation and ownership structures of Ghanaian banks on the quality of loans. It also examines the moderation effect of ownership structure on the relationship between compensation and loan quality. The study uses a panel data on 26 Ghanaian banks over the period, 2003-201...
ABSTRACT In the remittance literature, the empirical relationship between remittance receipts and agricultural asset accumulation has not been fully explored, and no clear-cut findings have been established. This is even worse for the sub-Saharan region and particularly for Ghana where little or no studies have examined such connection. Most of the efforts are geared towards Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and Asian countries. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to explore the imp...
ABSTRACT This academic work peeps at the consequence of financial growth on income disparity in Ghana using an Autoregressive Distributive Lag method for the period 1970 to 2012. An Unrestricted Error Correction Technique was adopted to analyse the long and short-run effects of these variables. The goals of the academic work were to uncover the consequence of growing financial sector and financial unpredictability on income disparity in Ghana. The experimental outcomes discovered that the out...
ABSTRACT The weaknesses of the public sector in the delivery of effective and efficient services in developing countries is a policy problem that is well documented in the literature. The public sector is noted for being unresponsive to customer needs and also fraught with corruption and rigid regulations. Consequently, the new public management ideas including the executive agency concept were proposed as an antidote to the problems associated with quality in public service provision. Agains...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the extent to which technology can be used to enhance public sector accounting in Ghana. There have been numerous interventions aimed at enhancing technology adoption in the public sector with the aim of enhancing efficiency and effectiveness. Despite these interventions, very little is known about what improvements have emerged in Public Sector Accounting that may be attributable to the use of technology. A descriptive study design was used to gather information...
ABSTRACT This project employed an action research design focused on the pre-intervention, intervention and post intervention processes to empower 20 returnee migrants (Kayayei) in the Kubori community. Specifically, the project sought to identify the reasons for out migration and the challenges that the migrants faced, reorient the returnee migrants to identify potentials in the communities and to build their capacities in the communities on skill development, as well as measure the effect of...
ABSTRACT Water is vital to human existent and human well-being. The availability of adequate standard, clean, safe and secured water source has been and would always be a major concern. Human access to adequate safe and secured fresh water is limited, yet crucial for the survival of livelihood and healthy living. Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) through the roof catchment is an important domestic water source. The RWH system consists of the capture, transporting pipes, storage and utilization of st...
ABSTRACT Road traffic accidents and fatalities are a serious concern globally due to its negative implications on health, social and economic wellbeing of the people. This preventable phenomenon is wiping away millions of lives and also depleting economic resources of countries especially developing countries who own 48% only of the world‘s vehicles yet account for 90% of all road accidents and fatalities in the world. Several attempts such as legislation, engineering and technological impr...
ABSTRACT The provision of key economic infrastructure such as roads, railways, ports, power plants, water treatment plants, among others remains prominent in the development of a country‟s economy. In Ghana however, the immediate requirements for these projects coupled with inherent budget constraints in the public sector makes it difficult for government to bridge the infrastructural gap. Public-Private Partnership has been identified as the innovative approach to finance public projects t...