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Capturing economic and social benefits at the community level: Opportunities and obstacles for civil society

Slack, Keith - 2017

cases of Ghana and Peru provide examples of these dynamics. Strategies for overcoming them include strengthening the …

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Savings, entrepreneurial trait and self-employment: evidence from selected Ghanaian Universities

Peprah, James A.; Afoakwah, Clifford; Koomson, Isaac - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 5 (2015) 1, pp. 1-17

Youth unemployment is a major setback to sustainable growth. In recent times, Ghana has experienced a downward trend in … private universities in Ghana. Employing the bivariate analysis and probit model on a sample of 1046 students shows that … designed strategically to target students into self-employment as a way of curbing youth unemployment in Ghana in order to …

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Market power, efficiency and welfare performance of banks: evidence from the Ghanaian banking industry

Adeabah, David; Andoh, Charles - 2019

The study analyses the welfare performance of banks’ lending services in the Ghanaian banking industry with emphasis on the role of market power and efficiency. We made use of pooled OLS regression with fixed effect model. For robustness, we adopted Prais–Winsten (1954) regression and...

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Markups, market imperfections, and trade openness: Evidence from Ghana

Damoah, Kaku Attah - 2018

This paper investigates the impact of Ghana's WTO accession on firm-level product and labour market imperfections. We …

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Understanding crude oil import demand behaviour in Africa: The Ghana case

Marbuah, George - In: Journal of African Trade 4 (2017) 1/2, pp. 75-87

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Managing traffic congestion in the Accra Central Market, Ghana

Agyapong, Frances; Ojo, Thomas Kolawole - In: Journal of Urban Management 7 (2018) 2, pp. 85-96

Traffic congestion is a major phenomenon in most Ghanaian cities, especially in market centers resulting in massive delays, a decrease in productivity and reduction in sales. Therefore, the study sought to assess the management of traffic congestion in the Accra Central Market. The study...

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Poverty and malaria morbidity in the Jirapa District of Ghana: A count regression approach

Nkegbe, Paul Kwame; Kuunibe, Naasegnibe; Sekyi, Samuel - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-13

affected mainly due to the socio-economic constraints that confront them. In Ghana, the Upper West Region, which is the poorest … count data models, with Jirapa District in the Upper West Region of Ghana as the study area. Empirical results confirm the …

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Technical efficiency and total factor productivity of rural banks in Ghana

Oteng-Abayie, Eric Fosu - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-20

This study sought to estimate the level of technical efficiency and total factor productivity of RCBs in Ghana using … of 137 RCBs in Ghana. The findings suggested that RCBs have room to improve on their technical efficiency and total …

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Trade openness and economic growth volatility: An empirical investigation

Mireku, Kwame; Agyei, Ellen Animah; Domeher, Daniel - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-11

This paper investigated the impact of trade openness on economic growth volatility of Ghana from 1970 to 2013, using …

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Is the effect of exchange rate volatility on export diversification symmetric or asymmetric? Evidence from Ghana

Obeng, Camara Kwasi - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-11

volatility on export diversification in Ghana for the period 1983 to 2015. The results indicate that exchange rate volatility has … asymmetric relationship with export diversification in Ghana. The study revealed that other drivers of export diversification in … Ghana are income, investment, infrastructure, openness, and inflation. The paper recommends that the Central Bank should …

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