ABSTRACT Although most studies have investigated demographic and socioeconomic determinants that influence birth location preferences and child vaccination, there is limited knowledge on the role the mass media plays in awareness creation and health decision making. Notwithstanding its critical role in health decisions, it is evident that the impact of the media on health outcomes varies across education groups. As a result, the objective of this study is to examine the role of the mass media...
ABSTRACT In Nigeria, there is a divergence between growth in public investment and output performance. The average annual growth rate of public investment (PI) was 3.6% in 1970-74, increased significantly to 20.5% during 1980-84 and declined steadily to 9.0% and 4.2% in 1990-94 and 2005-10, respectively. Over the same periods, the average output growth fluctuated considerably between 2.5% and 6.2%. While there are studies on the impact of PI on output, little attention has been devoted to th...
ABSTRACT In order to promote sustainable economic growth, there is a need for WAEMU countries to implement an appropriate policy mix. The study empirically analyses the relative effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policy on economic growth in WAEMU countries. The investigation of the relative effect of both policies was done in an unrestricted vector autoregressive VAR framework which was based on a modified version of the St Louis model. The VAR model was analysed using the Impulse Response...
ABSTRACT This study sought to examine the effect of household social spending on welfare in the light of both present and future poverty analyses using the quantitative approach. Ghana Statistical Service’s Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS) fourth, fifth and sixth waves were used in the study. Final sample sizes of 5,556, 7,759 and 15,568 for the fourth, fifth and sixth rounds respectively were analysed. The study found in its first objective that very poor households benefited more in te...
ABSTRACT In contrast to previous studies on the relationship between trade openness and economic growth, this study develops a new measure of trade openness. Composite Trade Intensity (CTI) was employed to generate an index to capture trade openness. The study used Trade Intensity (TI) and Relative World Trade Intensity (RWTI) dataset to create an index for trade policy openness. This new measure of trade openness improves on the results of trade openness compared with the traditional measure...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the determinants of demand for mobile telecom services by individuals in Cape Coast metropolis in the Central Region of Ghana. The logit model was used to identify determinants of mobile telecom services subscription. The mobile telecom subscription equation was estimated using the maximum likelihood estimation technique. Data for the study were collected via survey of individual subscribers and non-subscribers of mobile telecom services. The questio...
ABSTRACT In contemporary times, there has been a clarion call from transport experts and researchers suggesting the need to discourage the number of trips made on private cars during peak hours. Some studies suggest the use of toll differentials, whereby private cars are charged higher than others to ensure diversion from private cars to public transport. This thesis explored the determinants of the choice of mode of transport of intra-city spare parts dealers, and estimated the specific and...
ABSTRACT The exports sector plays a vital role in economic growth and development in Ghana. NonTraditional Exports (NTEs) is essential in expanding the exports sector. Hence, this paper applied the augmented gravity model of trade to investigate the determinants of Non-Traditional Exports (NTEs) growth in Ghana. A panel dataset of Ghana and her 78 major trading partners from 2004 to 2016 was used. The Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood regression (PPML) was used to reveal the effect that var...
ABSTRACT This thesis investigates the factors that determine demand for healthcare in Ghana by placing emphasis on price, income, and opportunity cost (the price of time). The study uses data from the sixth round of Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 6) conducted in 2012/2013. The thesis is organized in a paper-based approach. The first paper aims at finding the sensitivity of demand for healthcare services to price and income, as well as finding the benefit incidence of the ...
ABSTRACT The efficiency of resource-use is of major concern in agricultural production since farmers’ productivity and profitability depends on them. The study thus assesses the efficient use of production resource among small-holder pineapple farmers’ in the Akuapem South Municipality. The study area was selected since it has one of the largest numbers of small-holder pineapple producers in the country. The objective of the study was to determine and estimate the levels of resource effic...
ABSTRACT Most developing countries face the problem of raising tax revenue to carry out public sector spending. Tax revenue is necessary for economic growth and development. Unfortunately tax revenue generation has been low in Ghana. This study therefore examined the determinants of tax revenue with evidence from Ghana using quarterly data from 1988 to 2008. The tax effort function is used by regressing government expenditure, real gross domestic product and financial deepening on tax revenue...
ABSTRACT In theory, private capital flows (PCF) strengthen domestic investment for economic growth. In sub-Saharan African (SSA) economies, Foreign Direct Investment per Capita (FDIC), Portfolio Investment per Capita (PIC) and Bank Lending per Capita (BLC) components of PCF grew inversely to Gross Domestic Product per Capita (GDPC). While growth rates of FDIC, PIC and BLC respectively averaged 269.6%, 31.7% and 55.6% in 1981-1990; 42.9%, 36.6% and 28.6% in 1991-2000; 30.7%, - 174.7% and 24.2%...
ABSTRACT Recognizing the potential of Mutual Health Organizations (MHOs) to eliminate user fees and increase utilization of health care services in the country, the government of Ghana enacted the National Health Insurance Act in 2003, mandating the establishment of district-wide MHOs. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on the probability of utilizing outpatient care and expenditure in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central ...
ABSTRACT In 1973 the industrial countries of the world abandoned the Bretton - Wood adjustable - peg exchange rate system as a means of international payments, and embraced a floating exchange rate system. By the beginning of the 1980's some developing countries of the world joined the league of exchange rate-floaters. It was thought that a floating exchange rate system is intrinsically superior to a fixed one because it not only insulates an economy from the events in other economies but als...
Abstract The adoption of the Euro by the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has spurred the various Regional Economic Communities (REC) of the African Union (AU) to pursue their longterm aim of forming monetary unions and adopting common currencies. As part of the regional integration into monetary unions, ECOWAS has been pursuing a monetary union since 1987 which it finally agreed to launch a common currency (the ECO) in 2020. Even though the ECOWAS countries have not been able to si...