Savings in Ghana have generally being described as low in terms of the number of households who save, trends in amounts of savings and the attitude towards savings. This called for the examination of factors that motivate household heads to save in the Bole District of Ghana. A total of 120...

The relationship between inflation and interest rate has remained controversial in Ghana and this called for the investigation into the trends and causal links between the two variables. Monthly observations from 1995 to 2011 were used for analyses of trends, causality, cointegration and error...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of informal credit access on agricultural productivity in rural Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: Data sets from the Ghana Feed the Future baseline survey involving a total sample of 2,437 rural farm households were used. In order to...

Microfinance institutions must understand what influences their clients' choice of credit source in order to design and provide adequate and appropriate credit facilities to their clients. This paper explores the determinants of the choice of credit source among beneficiaries of microfinance...

The purpose of the study is to examine the existence of causality between macroeconomic variables and stock returns in Ghana. The study employs monthly time series data spanning the period January 1995 to December 2010. Unit root test is performed using ADF, PP and KPSS tests. Then, Vector Error...

The purpose of the study is to examine the existence of causality between macroeconomic variables and stock returns in Ghana. The study employs monthly time series data spanning the period January 1995 to December 2010. Unit root test is performed using ADF, PP and KPSS tests. Then, Vector Error...