71 10 3107 http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/a847fe231477a9f05ec68987116d8949.pdf 7b589a25f17b39bf88a1fdb006c3d0a5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <strong>Faculty Research Publications</strong> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Do political regime transitions in Africa Matter for Citizens’ Health Status Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lluís Díaz Serrano, Frank G Sackey Description An account of the resource Africa’s quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be effectively achieved without examining the quality of leadership, transitions and regimes and how they impact on the decisions and the policy effectiveness that bring about improved health and living standards of the citizenry. In this paper, we study the importance of regime transitions on government’s expenditure in health and on infant mortality, as a development indicator. A unique panel dataset comprising 44 sub-Saharan African countries spanning from 1970 t0 2010 containing information on political regime and leaders was used for the study. To account for the relevance of leader characteristics in regime transitions in our study we control for leader fixed-effects. The overall results are suggestive of a democratic advantage in the process of achieving effective health policy outcomes for promoting health, and hence the wellbeing of the citizens in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa in the long run. Keywords: Africa, health policy, public health, private health, child mortality, democracy, autocracy, political leaders. JEL Codes: I15, H51, O55 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&amp;cstart=20&amp;pagesize=80&amp;citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:IjCSPb-OGe4C Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/a84583b299e203f9b48b08c9f25b7c64.pdf fa4d2a25646c4e285a0bf6a219567549 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Empowering the Vulnerable to Be Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Test on the Effectiveness of the Ghana Microfinance Policy 2006 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Luis Diaz-Serrano, Frank Gyimah Sackey Description An account of the resource The study aims at testing the Ghana Microfinance Policy set up to support the vulnerable through access to credit. We resort to the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to determine if there is positive discrimination in favor of women and young entrepreneurs in the rationing behavior of the microfinance companies. This is what we should expect if the policy is effective. Our results show that even after controlling for a large number of borrower characteristics, microfinance type and credit worthiness variables, there is positive discrimination that favors female and young entrepreneurs as this discrimination is largely determined by the differential treatment these groups receive in respect of men and older borrowers from microfinance institutions. Our results show that the Government microfinance is the most severe in the rationing behavior towards the discriminating groups. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IZA Discussion Papers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&amp;cstart=20&amp;pagesize=80&amp;citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:ufrVoPGSRksC Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/36dd9314edda73ff69ae2f9b43a7966e.pdf 10852ff1fd1c949caeea2a6d6ba6a8c3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Essays on microfinance institutions and human capital Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frank Gyimah Sackey Description An account of the resource The real wealth of every nation is its people and this is the belief of the United Nations, with its Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&amp;cstart=20&amp;pagesize=80&amp;citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:0EnyYjriUFMC Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/d66c675fa090afab8e1a7bce34635e57.pdf 17807a729b79cbea71d2226311f1b331 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Digital transformation in business and society: theory and cases Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert E. Hinson Description An account of the resource Theory and Cases, edited by George Babu and Justin Paul, brings together ‘different perspectives from experts on how the data revolution has shaped different regions, industries, and domains’ (2). This book documents how the integration of digital technology into all areas of business and society fundamentally changes the way businesses operate and deliver services to their consumers. Babu George is Associate Professor of Management at Fort Hays State University, USA, while Justin Paul is Professor at the Graduate School of Business, University of Puerto Rico, and member of Rollins College, Florida, USA. Justin Paul is known widely for his introduction of the so-called Masstige model and measures for brand management, the CPP Model for describing and comparing the internationalization strategies along with the ‘7-Ps’ framework used in the study and practice of international marketing. The book reviewed here is a timely and significant publication for several reasons. Firstly, we are living in an age of rapid digitalization. In the information and communication technology (ICT) sector, there has indeed been a global revolution resulting in radical changes in the way people communicate with each other. This revolution has had an enormous impact on the way international business is conducted. In the space of 50 years, the digital world has grown to become crucial to the functioning of society. To illustrate, a recent study reports that 95% of young American adults own a cell phone and 97% of these cell owners use text messaging. Furthermore, 90% of young adults use social networking sites (Abatayo, Lynham, and Sherstyuk, 2017). Secondly, we can observe both positive and negative aspects of societal digitization: we can note current controversies surrounding globally networked enterprises such as Facebook. In their edited collection, George and Paul as editors allow a balanced view on both the threats and opportunities that the digital transformation of business and society create. The book comprises 16 chapters, contributed by some seasoned and some early-career scholars. In an introductory chapter, Babu George, the principal editor, incisively sketches a comprehensive picture for understanding the issues and problems with regard to the digital revolution. As he observes: ‘we have some evidence to support the claim that the digital revolution has helped us improve not just our business enterprises but our overall standard of living as a community of people, around the world’ (2). In chapter 2, Maria Lai-Ling Lam and Kei-Wing Wong explore the human flourishing in smart cities by focusing on the characteristics and relevant issues of two of Asia’s foremost ‘smart cities’: Singapore and Songdo, in the Republic in Korea. The study generates the following interesting arguments. First, Singapore and Songo are highly centralized and developed to attract foreign investments and competitiveness. The authors indicate that the cities attached huge amount of China-sourced inward financial investments and tourists. Both cities are framed as a smart city with all computerized accessible buildings and electrical sensors. They are managed through a centralized operating system that combines data analytics, big data, and urban informatics. Second, the standard of living in both cities is – by national and international comparisons – relatively high. However, the authors highlight some notable human and environmental concerns. For instance, Singapore’s smart city development plan was publicly criticized for its ‘lack of citizen’s participation’ (22). A process of so-called ‘McDonaldization’ continues and, therefore, citizens are treated as consumers and entrepreneurs in these smart cities Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available ASIA PACIFIC BUSINESS REVIEW Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13602381.2020.1738074 Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Effect of Monetary Policy on Price Stability and Gross Domestic Product in Ghana: A Predictive Analytic Approach Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Yaw Bediako, Patrick Ohemeng Gyaase, Frank Gyimah Sackey Description An account of the resource This study examined the effects of monetary policy on price stability and gross domestic product (GDP) in Ghana using a predictive data analytical model adapted from Friedman's (1982) models. Monetary policy adopted a two-target framework based on both the policy interest rate target and the bank credit aggregate target. Hypotheses tests were conducted using Vector Auto-Regressions (VARs) and Multiple Regression Analyses using secondary data. The VAR tests produced a statistically weak relationship between both price stability and real GDP and the two-target monetary policy framework. The results from the multiple regression analyses, however, indicated statistically significant relationships between the price stability and interest rate targets and those of real GDP and bank credit aggregate targets, thus confirming the model’s predictive capability. The study therefore recommends that for the … Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IGI Global Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&amp;cstart=20&amp;pagesize=80&amp;citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:HDshCWvjkbEC Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/b17b494fb0796afc1fb62dc3f8caabef.pdf b918adc89bb7f74043446eb0a7581f40 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Firm characteristics and asymmetric information based credit rationing in an emerging economy: a gender perspective.. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sackey, F.G., Asravor, R.K., Orkoh, E., Ankrah, I. Description An account of the resource Micro, Small and Medium firms’ credit access remains a dilemma though the financial sector has been liberalized. This paper investigates the factors influencing credit rationing and how variations in the characteristics of firms owned by different genders contribute to credit rationing. The study utilizes probit estimation with marginal effects, Fairlie counterfactual and decomposition analysis to analyze both credit rationing and the extent to which the credit rationing gap is influenced by differences in gender endowments and discrimination using 1,430 firms’ owners’ loan applications randomly selected from eight (8) commercial banks. Our results show that borrowers having more years of experience, external market access, proximity to lender, being older and being male are not likely to experience credit rationing. Borrowers in the agricultural sector, with long term loans, who lack formal education, run labor-intensive … Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Springer Nature Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&amp;cstart=20&amp;pagesize=80&amp;citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:j3f4tGmQtD8C Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/0bb6a64e3eee5d2200aa8bbe2ac67017.pdf 4bf992be9caf2917e518af4a581bd76a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource COVID-19 emergency income grant and food security in Namibia Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Orkoh, E., Hasholo, E.N., Sackey, F.G., Asravor, R.K. Description An account of the resource This paper evaluates the effects of the government's COVID-19 economic stimulus and relief package (emergency/one-off income grant of ND750) on household food security in Namibia during the period of the lockdown. The analysis reveals that a household that received the income grant ($42 equivalent) experienced about 11%−17% reduction in food insecurity compared to their non-recipient counterparts. We also found that the effect was relatively higher in female-headed households than in male-headed households. The positive effect is supported by a higher proportion (53%) of the beneficiary households who were satisfied with the policy. These findings underscore the need for the government of Namibia to institutionalise and sustain the income grant policy as a safety net and extend it to cover other vulnerable households in the post-pandemic. Such a programme should be gender-responsive and targeted at household heads who make decision over food consumption and other household arrangements for a bigger impact. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Routledge, Taylor & Francis Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&amp;cstart=20&amp;pagesize=80&amp;citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:r0BpntZqJG4C Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/43906b0eb544e8f94b43591b79a4bfbd.pdf 483c92ed8667be2d8a14d592e4eb3e4c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Benefitting from alter resources: network diffusion and SME survival Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert E. Hinson Description An account of the resource This study examines the usefulness of alter resources for the survival of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana. We utilize data from two rounds of poultry SME network surveys and accompanying SME attributes between 2014 and 2015. We focused on the resources that diffuse to SMEs from alters and the mechanism through which these resources diffuse. We observed that alter markets and technological resources are significant for the survival of SMEs in our sample. We also explored the effect of variations in alter resources along the lines of the type of resource being diffused and found that market resource spill overs have a positive effect while technological resource variations have a negative effect, but these do not rise to significance. Finally, we assessed the impact of the mechanism through which the resources are diffused and found that both direct and indirect tie mechanisms have a positive effect on survival but the effect of direct ties was higher than that of indirect ties. Cette étude examine l'utilité de modifier les ressources pour la survie des PME au Ghana. Nous utilisons les données de deux séries d'enquêtes sur le réseau de PME de volaille et accompagnant les attributs des PME entre 2014 et 2015. Nous nous sommes concentrés sur les ressources qui diffusent aux PME des altérations et le mécanisme par lequel ces ressources diffusent. Nous avons observé que les marchés et les ressources technologiques sont importants pour la survie des PME de notre échantillon. Nous avons également exploré l'effet des variations des ressources sur le modèle de la ressource diffusée et avons constaté que les retombées sur les ressources du marché ont un effet positif et les variations des ressources technologiques ont un effet négatif, mais elles n'ont pas de signification. Enfin, nous avons évalué l'impact du mécanisme par lequel les ressources sont diffusées et constaté que les mécanismes de liaison directe et indirecte ont un effet positif sur la survie, mais l'effet des liens directs était plus élevé que pour les liens indirects. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08276331.2018.1462620#d1e819 http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/2f0a757aebb0789de697c6b410c6a072.pdf 404c3c64e9845540df4fea42d382dd27 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Factors influencing the perception and the willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine among the working population in Ghana Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frank Gyimah Sackey, Richard Asravor, Christopher Lamptey Description An account of the resource Purpose The onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to loss of lives and jobs and other adverse effects on persons, families and businesses. With its frightening tendencies, it was a sigh of relief with the discovery of vaccines to mitigate its disastrous effects. However, participation in the vaccination exercise in Ghana has been slow and unencoraging. This paper sought to identify the factors that influence the perception and willingness of individuals to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Design/methodology/approach For this study, structured questionnaires were administered to 1,350 respondents selected at random by way of purposive sampling from specific regions that were also randomly selected. Out of this sample, a total of 1,296 were found to be in useable form. The probit model estimation with marginal effects was used to determine both perception and willingness to take the COVID-19 … Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Emerald Publishing Limited Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&amp;cstart=20&amp;pagesize=80&amp;citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:RHpTSmoSYBkC Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Do petroleum price fluctuations under price deregulation cause business cycles in Ghana? Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sackey, F.G., Asravor, R.K., Orkoh, E., Ankrah, I. Description An account of the resource In the context of volatilities in the international markets in recent times, studies regarding the complexities of oil price fluctuations have focussed on analysing the special fluctuation characteristics of oil prices in different historical perspectives. This study examines the extent to which petroleum price fluctuations under the petroleum price deregulation regime impact on business cycles in Ghana. The study uses the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model with a quarterly data spanning from the first quarter of 2005 to the fourth quarter of 2022. Our empirical results show that price stability impacts positively on economic growth, both in the short and the long run, while foreign direct investment also has a positive effect on economic growth in the short run. Again, we observe that increases in inflation rate and government petroleum revenue negatively affect economic growth both in the short and the long run. To the best of the authors’ belief and knowledge, the observations and recommendations made are consistent with theory and empirical studies and contribute immensely to the discussions about price asymmetry and business cycles. It also offers a nuanced perspective on how policy makers can enact policies that ensure efficient and effective deregulation and price stability. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Springer Nature Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&amp;cstart=20&amp;pagesize=80&amp;citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:k_IJM867U9cC Language A language of the resource English