37 10 644 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 Is there discrimination against the agricultural sector in the credit rationing behavior of commercial banks in Ghana? Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frank Gyimah Sackey Description An account of the resource Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine if credit rationing persists even in the era of financial liberalization, the extent to which individual, firm and loan characteristics influence the rationing behavior of commercial banks and whether the agricultural sector is discriminated against in the commercial bank credit market. Design/methodology/approach The study employed a probit model with marginal effects and a generalized Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition estimation on a randomly selected data of 1,239 entrepreneurs from eight commercial banks’ credit records about their individual, firm and loan characteristics. Findings The study revealed that credit rationing persists and that applying for a relatively longer payment period, providing collateral and guarantor, being illiterate, being relatively older and being in the agricultural sector increases the likelihood of being credit rationed, while having some relationship … 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 2018 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C Language A language of the resource English https://www.repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/97c28f71bd59edf7b8920b2b9242b921.pdf 6e2e74f5b2597482dbd19645184a976e 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 Impact of African leaders' characteristics and regime transitions on economic growth in Africa Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frank Gyimah Sackey Description An account of the resource This paper examined the extent to which leaders’ characteristics and regime transitions impact on economic growth. A unique panel dataset, comprising 44 sub-Sahara African countries from 1970 to 2010, was used for the study. We used the differenced generalized methods of moments’ estimation to test our dynamic model for the dataset controlling for leader specific effects. We observed that democratic leaders were able to attract foreign direct investment and impact on economic growth positively. With regard to regime transitions, we observed that business cycle existed, and it reduced the rate of growth in democratic governance in election periods as compared to autocratic governance. Overall, our results show that there is a limit to which an ageing leader can stay in office. Moreover, the overall results point to a democratic governance having an advantage over an autocratic one in the process of promoting … Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Elsevier Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:L8Ckcad2t8MC Language A language of the resource English https://www.repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/9050955851f72be61c3af053d0c18a52.pdf 498e1a42ea060dbec958f66a5a1a9e40 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 Bank customers’ preferences and responses to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives in Ghana Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson Description An account of the resource  The study seeks to investigate Ghanaian bank customers’ ranked preference for corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and determine which initiative has the greatest effect on attitude and behaviour toward banks. A sample of 384 retail bank customers is employed in the study. Applying a one-way MANOVA and two uni-variate ANOVAs, the study finds that customers have the highest preference for corporate philanthropy initiatives, followed by customer-centric and community volunteering initiatives. Additionally, the overall effects of CSR initiatives on customers’ attitude and behavioural intentions toward bank brands are found to be significant. More specifically, the study finds, using a Scheffé post-hoc test, that corporate philanthropy initiative have the greatest effect on both attitude and behavioural intentions towards bank brands. Based on the findings, the study recommends that the best type of CSR initiative that retail banks should apply to stimulate customers’ attitude and behaviour towards their brands in Ghana is corporate philanthropy initiatives. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Creative Commons License -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://ajobe.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/107 Language A language of the resource English https://www.repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/08a3bc3b9236b72a04315491afed5d7b.pdf b360e26281a88945b87ac709012a9f0e 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 Microfinance and credit rationing: does the microfinance type matter? Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Luis Diaz-Serrano, Frank G Sackey Description An account of the resource This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises’ access to credit from microfinance institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The data for the study were gleaned from the microfinance companies’ credit and loan records consisting of the various pieces of information provided by the borrowers in the application process. Our results are puzzling and show that credit rationing is not influenced by the microfinance types but by the individual microfinance companies. Our results also show that the Government microfinance company is the least severe in the rationing behavior. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Taylor & Francis Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:eQOLeE2rZwMC 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 Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Ghana Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frank Gyiamh Sackey, George Compah-Keyeke, J Nsoah Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available International Institute for Science, Technology and Education Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:kNdYIx-mwKoC Language A language of the resource English https://www.repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/817201f5f1322fae75f89f088824f068.pdf 7763c58af9d0eb545856e392597aeb8b 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 Financial sector deepening and economic growth in Ghana Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frank Gyimah Sackey, Eric Maric Nkrumah Description An account of the resource The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of Financial Sector Development on Economic Growth in Ghana using the Johansen Co-integration analysis. The paper examines empirically the causal link between financial sector development and economic growth in Ghana. The Johansen Co-integration techniques within a bi-variate vector auto-regressive framework were used for the regression. Using a quarterly time series set of data on Ghana over a ten year period (2000–2009), the result of the study shows that, there is a statistically significant positive relationship between the Financial Sector Development and Economic Growth in Ghana. This outcome is in line with the results found for most of the literature reviewed. It is recommended that Government should encourage competition in the financial sector and micro finance development as these will improve and increase outreach and access to credit at a lower cost. This will boost private sector development and investments which is the engine of growth and development. This study will help policy makers in decision making as well as serve as a source of reference for further studies. Further studies are recommended to increase the frontiers of this study. Further research on the role of financial sector developments–following Hasan et al.(2006)–is warranted in order to gain a more conclusive understanding of the finance-growth nexus in a transitional country like Ghana. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC 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 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 MINING FIRMS AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING IN GHANA Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://hero.epa.gov/hero/index.cfm/reference/details/reference_id/7858755 Language A language of the resource English https://www.repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/f008eb8f6d74d01ab1d737359e810e40.pdf 4ab9d3ec1398f41690181e30ea126b60 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 financial performance of life insurance companies in Ghana Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Joseph Oscar Akotey, Frank G Sackey, Lordina Amoah, Richard Frimpong Manso Description An account of the resource Purpose – The aim of this research is to assess the financial performance of the life insurance industry of an emerging economy. In particular the study delves into the major determinants of the profitability of the life insurance industry of Ghana. The study also examines the relationship among the three measures of insurers' profitability, which are investment income, underwriting profit and the overall (total) net profit. Design/methodology/approach – The annual financial statements of ten life insurance companies covering a period of 11 years (2000‐2010) were sampled and analyzed through panel regression. Findings – The findings indicate that whereas gross written premiums have a positive relationship with insurers' sales profitability, its relationship with investment income is a negative one. Also, the results showed that life insurers have been incurring large underwriting losses due to overtrading and price … Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Emerald Group Publishing Limited Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:UebtZRa9Y70C 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 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 Ethics and Accountable Governance in Africa's Public Sector, Volume II Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert E. Hinson Description An account of the resource This book is a fascinating treatment of ethics, governance, and anti-corruption initiatives from a public sector management perspective and is especially relevant for an Africa looking to benefit from the recently launched Africa Continental Free Trade Area. This second part of a two-volume set spans a wide array of contemporary issues. Chapters explore the challenges related to building an ethical climate in Africa’s public sector, what the imperatives of anti-corruption initiatives should be in Africa, ethical orientation in promoting project performance, corporate governance in Zimbabwe’s local authorities and the role of NGOs/CSOs in promoting public sector accountability. On digitalisation, the book discusses the management of Tanzanian public service integrity in the digital era and digital innovation towards sustainable public sector administration in Africa. Public sector management, ethics and corporate governance academics, students, managers and policy makers will find this edited volume critical to improving public sector management in Africa. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Palgrave Studies of Public Sector Management in Africa 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://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-04325-3 Language A language of the resource English https://www.repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/07315b64891e77b73e9a2589a6defbf9.pdf b5d1d667872ed880524d68ce572030f1 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 Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Isaac Doku, John Akuma, John Owusu-Afriyie Description An account of the resource Purpose–This study aims to examine the quantitative effect and direction of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on economic growth in Africa using a sample of 20 African countries from 2003 to 2012 with data obtained from United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the World Bank. Design/methodology/approach–The study used panel least squares regression, specifically fixed effect model to examine the quantitative effect of Chinese FDI on economic growth in Africa. The study also used Granger causality test to examine whether a causal relationship exists between economic growth and China’s FDI in Africa. Findings–The study finds that a 1 per cent increase in China’s FDI stock in Africa significantly increases Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth by 0.607 per cent, all things being equal. Furthermore, the study finds that a causal link exists between GDP growth in Africa and China’s FDI and the nature of causality is unidirectional. Practical implications–The study recommends that to stimulate Chinese FDI in Africa, free visas must be given to Chinese investors coming into the continent, low tariffs should be imposed on inputs and intermediate goods from China and grant of business operation permit to Chinese investors must be made less bureaucratic. Originality/value–This research has not been presented to any journal for publication and is originally written by the authors. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=qGn6xmQAAAAJ&citation_for_view=qGn6xmQAAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C Language A language of the resource English