In 2009, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows to developed countries experienced the largest decline among all regions and sub-regions. However, South, East and Southeast Asia showed the smallest decline among developing economies and remained the largest recipient of FDI inflows. Meanwhile,...

This research seeks to study the factors that enhance or preclude owners of SMEs in Ghana in making risk management decisions. The study was conducted with managers of SMEs in four regions in Ghana. The researchers adopted a quantitative approach and employed STATA 10 and SPSS version 20 in the...

Corruption has become endemic in many African countries and is difficult to eradicate completely; therefore, reducing corruption to a tolerable level that will not deter foreign investors must be the aspiration of all political leaders and stakeholders. This study tries to identify the level of...

The study finds the impact of the percentage of total annual sales of a firm paid as informal payments to public officials (bribes) on foreign ownership of firms in Africa while controlling for other variables outside the country of origin of investment. The study used secondary data from the...

Literature shows that power generation capacity in sub-Sahara Africa is lower than that of any other region in the world and capacity growth has also stagnated. Africa currently faces major electricity shortages with a number of power outages which has the tendency of rendering many firms less...

Aim: In order to integrate malaria Intermittent Preventive Treatment in infants (IPTi) into the Ghana national immunization programme, there was the need to evaluate the feasibility of IPTi by assessing the intervention operational issues including its implementation costs, and its cost...

In Ghana malaria continues to be the major cause of morbidity and mortality, accounting for over 44.5% of all out-patient attendance in 2005 ranging between 54.4% in the Northern region to 36.1% in the Volta region (GHS, 2005). The aim of the new National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) in...

Aims: The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) was conceptualized to provide pupils at the public basic schools with one hot nutritious meal per day. The objectives of GSFP included reduction of hunger and malnutrition, increase school enrolment, attendance and retention among others. There has...

Time and motion study attempts to track the time records of activities of individuals or group of people. Intermittent Preventive Treatment in infants is a malaria prophylaxis strategy consisting of intermittent administration of three doses of a long-lasting anti-malaria drug, sulphadoxine –...

In May 2010, lecturers in a social science education programme surveyed 130 of their returning interns. We (the lecturers) gave them a two-page questionnaire asking them about their experiences. The intention was to better understand how the students were experiencing their internship. We wanted...