Ghana is a developing country where practices of alternative and herbal medicine is preferred over going to a hospital or other medical facility‚ especially where people do not have access or can’t afford the costs (Essebegy‚ 2015). There are also cultural
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first of a two-part series critically examining the corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy and performance of AngloGold Ashanti (AGA). This first essay analyses the company’s CSR strategy and activities against the yard sticks provided by the Ghana Business Code and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). In analyzing AGA’s strategy‚ we explore the likely motivating factors driving the company’s CSR activities and how these drivers inform AngloGold’s responsiveness to environmental‚ social and
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five years‚ focusing on prevalence‚ risk and illness implications in relation to aging. Two arguments are made. First‚ chronic diseases in Ghana constitute public health and developmental challenges‚ requiring the same intellectual and financial commitments afforded to communicable and infectious diseases. Information on the prevalence of chronic disease in Ghana is limited in scope and quality. There is no single source that can be used to describe the effects of ill health implications across the
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1 FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH PROGRAMME WORKING PAPER SERIES Paper No 15 THE POLICY ENVIRONMENT FOR PROMOTING SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES IN GHANA AND MALAWI Dalitso Kayanula and Peter Quartey IDPM‚ University of Manchester May 2000 ISBN: Series Editor: Further details: Published by: 1 902518675 Colin Kirkpatrick Maggie Curran‚ Marketing and Publicity Administrator Institute for Development Policy and Management‚ University of Manchester‚ Crawford House‚ Precinct
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OF ELECTRICITY COMPANY OF GHANA-TAKORADI) CHAPTER ONE 1.0. INTRODUCTION This chapter highlights briefly on essential elements through which the study intends to be conducted. This includes the background of the study‚ statement of the problem‚ objectives of the study‚ the research questions‚ the significance of the study‚ the scope of the study‚ the organization of the study among others. 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In the past‚ public sectors in Ghana used to do their purchases
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CHALLENGES OF CHRISTIANITY IN WEST AFRICA (GHANA) Christianity as a religion ‚ a faith or a way of life in recent years has been pretty much tough if I would say . It is indeed difficult to be a good Christian in this age than it ever was . The standards are dropping ‚ deviation from the central core of believe‚ persecutions of Christians here and there ‚ civil wars and a host of others tend to battle
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How Ghanaian is Ghanaian English? A preliminary study from the perspective of a phonetician INTRODUCTION Background to the study English language came to Ghana around the second half of the 15th Century through a group of English merchants who arrived in the Guinea coast to trade in gold dust and spices (Sey‚ 1973). According to Sey‚ by the 18th Century‚ British have attempted to establish schools in the Gold Coast. In 1788‚ a school for twelve children was established in Cape Coast whilst around
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effective inputs of education‚ health and moral values. The transformation of raw human resource into highly productive human resource with these inputs is the process of human capital formation. The problem of scarcity of tangible capital in Ghana can be resolved by accelerating the rate of human capital formation with both private
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agencies was established in 1973 in Britain and has its headquarters located in Lisle‚ United States and has over eighty seven (87) offices in fifty eight (58) countries with Ghana being one of the offices as at March 2015. It describes its sub areas as offices and not as branches and so the one in Ghana is described as the Ghana office. With its focus on market research‚AgyakoAgyei International Company through
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UPPER CANOPY CROWN COVER IN COCOA AGROFORESTRY SYSTEM 1.0 INTRODUCTION Climate Change is one aspect or explanation of how the livelihood of farmers can be threatened. (Kuckelberg‚ 2012) In Ghana‚ the climate has changed over the last years of which crops are getting destroyed due to periods of extreme heat and heavy rains. As Mbow and colleagues outline in their paper‚ climate change mitigation in Africa to date has largely focused on reforestation and forest protection. This
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