shortage of doctors as a result of many years of ineffective medical workforce planning. This thesis is based on the premise … that there is a supply shortage of doctors in many parts of Australia, and in particular, that there is a shortage of GPs …

increasingly risky environment. Causes ofmanufacturing disruptions continue to multiply, and today, seemingly minor disruptionscan … volatility. As a result, each year UScompanies forfeit billions of dollars to unpredictable capacity disruptions and … insurancepremiums. In this dissertation we develop a number of stochastic models thatcapture the dynamics of capacity disruptions in …

This thesis studies inventory control with risk of major supply chain disruptions, specifically border closures and … the state of an exogenous Markov process; we will model border disruptions via this exogenous process. We consider …

business environment. At the same time, breakdowns in supply chains, frequently referred to as supply chain disruptions, are … are the antecedents associated with supply chain disruptions; and third, how can we mitigate the impact of the antecedents … on supply chain disruption. We define disruptions as "an unplanned stoppage of the material flow within the supply chain …

Lesotho; and has slightly declined in Ghana. The underlying factors with regard to the apparent increase hinge on the …

affects the safety, quality, and efficiency of health care delivery in these countries. Ghana is faced with this precise set … of circumstances as it struggles to adopt policies to overcome these challenges. The Republic of Ghana is implementing …

affects the safety, quality, and efficiency of health care delivery in these countries. Ghana is faced with this precise set … of circumstances as it struggles to adopt policies to overcome these challenges. The Republic of Ghana is implementing …

more fully, we examine the reasons for the adoption and non-adoption of mobile banking in Ghana. Through a survey of 271 … people in Ghana, it has been found that social and cultural factors in the form of perceived credibility, facilitating …

The Ghana cocoa market has been extensively liberalised over the period since the mid 1980s. Three issues have been … occurred. In this paper we investigate these issues by estimating a production function for cocoa in Ghana drawing on two …