A major challenge to the Ghanaian economy is the persistence disequilibrium in the balance of payments. This is a general economic phenomenon in most developing countries. Using an annual data set from 1980-2010. This study analyzes the balance of payments for Ghana using a monetary approach...

In recent time, Ghana has embarked on policies that aim to rebalance the role of public and private sector in the economy and thus emphasize private sector development. This paradigm shift is to encourage private investment and ultimately make private sector the engine of growth. The study is a...

Shareholders ability to shift the burden of the tax to the consumer or labour depends largely on the mobility of capital. If the investor can move from the corporate sector into the non corporate sector, the laws of supply and demand will cause some of the burden of the corporate income tax to...

Purpose Using an institutionalist perspective, and through a case study analysis, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether subsidiaries of MNEs demonstrate a convergence across their HRM practices in a less developed host-country context. Design/methodology/approach This paper reports on...

Purpose The authors propose a strategic-balance approach to local content laws in which less developed economies in sub-Sahara Africa can develop investment incentive policies for attracting multinationals and direct foreign investment but, at the same time, have a structured and operational...