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Remittances and domestic investment in Africa: do banking sector development and quality governance matter? 非洲的汇款和国内投资:银行业发展和质量治理重要吗?

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v19i2.6

Joseph Dery Nyeadi, Abdulai Adams, M. Musah

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Economic shocks and the growth of the Ghanaian cocoa industry from 1975 to 2019 1975年至2019年的经济冲击和加纳可可产业的增长

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v19i2.3

Esther Yaa Benneh, K. Anaman

{"title":"Economic shocks and the growth of the Ghanaian cocoa industry from 1975 to 2019","authors":"Esther Yaa Benneh, K. Anaman","doi":"10.4314/gjds.v19i2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/gjds.v19i2.3","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we sought to identify some economic shocks that have affected the Ghanaian cocoa industry and the effects of these shocks based on available annual data over the 45-year period from 1975 to 2019. The analysis was conducted using a simple autoregressive model of the cocoa industry. The results of the analysis indicated that the major economic shocks affecting the cocoa industry in Ghana were political instability arising from military coups, producer price shock linked to very high producer prices, the La Cote d’Ivoire civil wars between 2002 to 2007, and 2010 to 2011, which resulted in large-scale smuggling of cocoa beans across the border to Ghana for sale, and the El Nino weather shock characterized by severe droughts and very low amounts of rainfall, which dampened the production of cocoa beans in Ghana. The negative shocks were the El Nino weather phenomenon and political instability. The positive shocks were the very high producer prices and La Cote d’Ivoire civil war. We suggest some recommendations. These include increased resourcing of the Ghana Meteorological Agency to improve its prediction of extreme weather effects whose occurrence affect the production of crops such as cocoa, the establishment of bigger price stabilization funds by the Ghana Cocoa Board to support the cocoa industry, and research studies to analyse the apparent link between dramatic drop in cocoa production and explosive depreciation of the Ghanaian currency, the Ghana cedi.","PeriodicalId":110495,"journal":{"name":"Ghana Journal of Development Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134490164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Obstacles in adopting Lean Thinking at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority in Ghana 加纳司机和车辆牌照管理局采用精益思维的障碍

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v19i2.4

Khinanwin Nyande, S. Al-hassan, D. Tuurosong

{"title":"Obstacles in adopting Lean Thinking at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority in Ghana","authors":"Khinanwin Nyande, S. Al-hassan, D. Tuurosong","doi":"10.4314/gjds.v19i2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/gjds.v19i2.4","url":null,"abstract":"The Lean Thinking ideology has established tools and techniques needed to reduce non-value-added activities such as waiting time, overproduction, transportation, motion, inventory and defects within an organization’s value stream. Numerous organizations across the world have applied Lean Thinking and have attained vast benefits. This research examined the obstacles or barriers to Lean implementation at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) in Ghana. The research used the concurrent mixed methods research design. A total of  clients of DVLA were sampled for the study using a simple random sampling approach. The data analysis for the study was grounded on the standardized Z-test and thematic analysis. The results from the study revealed that lack of top management support, consulting cost in Lean, stringent requirements and approval, lack of knowledge in Lean, and lack of government support for research and collaboration in Lean were the barriers in the Lean implementation process. It was therefore recommended that management and employees of DVLA should focus on identifying and eliminating the obstacles in Lean implementation which affect their operations.","PeriodicalId":110495,"journal":{"name":"Ghana Journal of Development Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129738749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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‘I don’t command the equal respect as my peers’: Middle-class disability, stigma and social expectation in Ghana “我没有得到同龄人一样的尊重”:加纳中产阶级的残疾、耻辱和社会期望

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v19i2.9

Joseph Ocran

{"title":"‘I don’t command the equal respect as my peers’: Middle-class disability, stigma and social expectation in Ghana","authors":"Joseph Ocran","doi":"10.4314/gjds.v19i2.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/gjds.v19i2.9","url":null,"abstract":"Disability spoils the identities of persons with disability and exposes them to stigma. Contrary to the belief that disability stigma is associated with the low social class position, middle-class persons with disability also experience stigma. Experiences of poor and underprivileged persons with disability are well documented but the experiences of middle-class persons with disability are often unnoticed. This study explored how middle-class persons with disability experience lowered social expectations because of their assumed vulnerability and supposed functional incompetence. Using the hermeneutic phenomenology approach, the study explored the lived experiences of 16 middle-class persons with disability who were purposively selected. Data was collected through in-depth interviews and analysed using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis approach. The participants shared experiences from various parts of Ghana. Middle-class persons with disability are assumed to lack physical strength, intellectual abilities, financial capacities, and relational abilities. They are, therefore, often treated with contempt. These experiences are influenced by nuances in social norms, relational factors, and personal characteristics such as social class, age, gender, type of impairment, and time of acquisition of impairment. Persons with disability are not a homogenous category of people. They are as diverse as non-disabled people are. The differences in their individual identities and social statuses must be considered in the design and implementation of social inclusion interventions and welfare policies meant to eliminate disability stigma and discrimination.","PeriodicalId":110495,"journal":{"name":"Ghana Journal of Development Studies","volume":"226 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122979995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Examining drivers of technical, allocative and economic efficiencies in cocoa farming: empirical evidence from Ghana. 考察可可种植中技术、配置和经济效率的驱动因素:来自加纳的经验证据。

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v19i2.1

E. Inkoom, H. Acquah, S. Dadzie

{"title":"Examining drivers of technical, allocative and economic efficiencies in cocoa farming: empirical evidence from Ghana.","authors":"E. Inkoom, H. Acquah, S. Dadzie","doi":"10.4314/gjds.v19i2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/gjds.v19i2.1","url":null,"abstract":"In Ghana, cocoa production is a major economic activity among rural farmers. Its production contributes significantly to the GDP and further, livelihood security enhancement among rural folks. However, recent development has unveiled a situation of persistent low farm-level productivity among cocoa farmers which threatens their livelihood security. In view of this, we estimated the economic, technical, and allocative efficiencies among cocoa farmers and their determinants to help proffer relevant policy strategies to arrest the situation of low farm-level productivity. Using a multistage sampling procedure, we collected data from 750 cocoa farmers across the cocoa-growing regions of Ghana. To estimate the farm-level efficiency scores, we employed the stochastic frontier analysis and our results show that cocoa farmers generally exhibited significant levels of technical, allocative, and economic inefficiencies. We estimated the average technical, allocative, and economic efficiencies scores among the cocoa farmers to be 67%, 69%, and 51% respectively. The analysis of the determinants of technical, allocative, and economic inefficiencies revealed that farmer and farm-specific variables such as sex, household size, educational level, years of farming experience, frequency of extension contact, quality of extension received, use of climate smart adaptation technologies, farm size, farm labour and access to credit facilities significantly explain cocoa farm level efficiencies. Accordingly, we recommend that extension service providers and COCOBOD develop strategies to improve upon the quality of extension service delivery as well as incorporate the promotion and adoption of climate smart adaptation technologies into its productivity enhancement programmes for farmers.","PeriodicalId":110495,"journal":{"name":"Ghana Journal of Development Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128314305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Migrant chiefs in urban Ghana: an exploratory study of some selected Dagomba Chiefs in Accra 加纳城市中的移民酋长:对阿克拉一些选定的Dagomba酋长的探索性研究

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v19i2.7

A. S. Anamzoya, Alhassan Baba Zakaria

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Exploring the Problems the Gari Processing Industry Encounter in the West Gonja Municipality, Ghana 加纳西Gonja市Gari加工业遇到的问题探讨

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-09 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v19i1.5

M. N. Fuseini, M. Sulemana

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Assessing the Performance of ELL and EBP Models in Estimating District Level Poverty Indices in The Presence of Outliers in the Northern Region of Ghana. 在加纳北部地区存在异常值的情况下，评估ELL和EBP模型在估计地区贫困指数方面的表现。

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-09 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v19i1.1

Ishaque Mahama, N. Nsowah-Nuamah, A. Alhassan

{"title":"Assessing the Performance of ELL and EBP Models in Estimating District Level Poverty Indices in The Presence of Outliers in the Northern Region of Ghana.","authors":"Ishaque Mahama, N. Nsowah-Nuamah, A. Alhassan","doi":"10.4314/gjds.v19i1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/gjds.v19i1.1","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study was to assess the performance of the Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw (ELL) and the Empirical Best Predictor (EBP) Small Area Estimation (SAE) models in estimating the Foster-Greer-Thobecke (FGT) poverty indices for the Northern Region of Ghana in the presence of outliers. The sixth round of the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS) data and the  Population and Housing Census ( PHC) data were used for the study. The performances of these SAE models under normality and non-normality assumptions were evaluated by computing and comparing their Absolute Relative Biases and Relative Root Mean Squared Errors values under both conditions by conducting a model-based simulation study in the absence and presence of outlier contaminated data. Results from the study showed that no matter the level of contamination, the EBP model is a better performer and more stable than the ELL model in estimating all the FGT poverty indicators for the Region. Therefore, it was recommended that in future poverty estimating exercises, the EBP model be used to estimate the FGT poverty indicators for the Northern Region of Ghana.","PeriodicalId":110495,"journal":{"name":"Ghana Journal of Development Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132489357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dominated Myths Are Almost Broken: Evaluating Assembly Members’ Lived Experiences in Ghanaian Local Politics 主导的神话几乎被打破:评估加纳地方政治中议会成员的生活经历

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-09 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v19i1.2

Janet Serwah Boateng

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Unpaid Care Work and its Effect on Gender Equality in Northern Ghana: Evidence from the Jirapa Municipality 加纳北部无偿护理工作及其对性别平等的影响:来自吉拉帕市的证据

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-09 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v19i1.6

George Dery Nanko, Teng-Zeng K. Frank

{"title":"Unpaid Care Work and its Effect on Gender Equality in Northern Ghana: Evidence from the Jirapa Municipality","authors":"George Dery Nanko, Teng-Zeng K. Frank","doi":"10.4314/gjds.v19i1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/gjds.v19i1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Globally, women are said to be disadvantaged in the world of paid and/or unpaid work. The study aims at examining the implications of unpaid care responsibilities on gender inequality in the Jirapa Municipality of the Upper West Region, Ghana. The mixed method approach was used for data collection and analyses. In-depth interviews using a questionnaire and an interview guide were used to collect qualitative and quantitative data. The questionnaires were analyzed descriptively using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 22 while the interviews were analyzed using the thematic analysis. Findings from the study revealed that inequality caused by unpaid care work is noticeable in the areas of governance, education and paid employment. For instance, whereas the informal sector employs more women, the formal sector employment is largely dominated by men who tend to have sustained jobs. In all these situations women in rural areas tend to be the most affected by gender inequalities. Interconnected variables of vulnerability and suppression including residential status (rural or urban settings) intersect with gender to make rural women worse off in terms of gender inequality. The study recommends cash remittances to unemployed ‘ housewives’ in rural areas and massive infrastructural development of rural communities to guarantee gender responsive public service to women.","PeriodicalId":110495,"journal":{"name":"Ghana Journal of Development Studies","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133194984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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