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The increasing casualisation of labour forces trade unions globally to deal with a growing number of unprotected and unrepresented workers in what is dubbed by the unions, even if critically, as the informal economy. This paper assesses the impact and further potential of a direct and indirect...
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Standard economic intuition of revealed preference implies that when two parties freely enter into a contract then neither should be worse off. In this study, we develop a simple model showing that introducing the opportunity to contract can lower welfare for some, and perhaps all, contracting...
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entrepreneurs can set up business in low-return activities with minimal barriers to entry. Using a cashmere sweater cluster in China …
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The objective of the study is to identify how micro-enterprises can be integrated into local value chains by using the so-called "value chain approach". The "value chain approach" has become a relatively popular approach among donor agencies and NGOs engaged in Private Sector Development in...
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-Based Educational Technologies (WBETs)at the University of Cape Coast and the University of Ghana, Legon. This study, based onRogersà…¢Â€Â™ theory of adoption and diffusion, is a modified replication of a study by Li(2004), in the context of Ghana. Data were …
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The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … Lesotho; and has slightly declined in Ghana. The underlying factors with regard to the apparent increase hinge on the … Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and …
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The Ghana cocoa market has been extensively liberalised over the period since the mid 1980s. Three issues have been … occurred. In this paper we investigate these issues by estimating a production function for cocoa in Ghana drawing on two …
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panel data set of firms in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania that spans a period of five years. We find that the main determinant of … growth of firms in Africa. We find no evidence that larger firms have faster rates of productivity or input growth, or are …
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process orientation that canbe learned. Research testing the relationship between entrepreneurship andperformance has been … contention of Lumpkin and Dess (1996) that anentrepreneurial orientation is associated with learning: the how of entrepreneurship …
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