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    Campus Security and Safety Models: Statistical Empirical Analysis from a Ghanaian Tertiary Institution
    (Journal of Education and Practice, 2019-12) Mensah, Francis Owusu; Baafi, Joseph Antwi; Arthur, Yarhands Dissou; Claudia, Omari Somuah; Mprah, Richard
    All over the world security challenges faced by our traditional settlements is likewise in the university and college campuses. For this reason campus safety and security has become topical issue of research since parents are concerned about their wards and educational stakeholders risk losing loosing students because of crime and violence. With the influx of distance education students on the campus during the weekends and holidays, the issue of security becomes even more paramount. The current study model students’ perception of campus security personnel’s using procedural fairness, security effectiveness and trust in security response construct while fear of crime as well as security corruption are used as predictor construct. PLS-SEM is the quantitative approach used to investigate effect security corruption and students fear of crime on security procedural fairness, security effectiveness and students’ trust in security. The study randomly selected 350 regular and distance students, however 327 returned questionnaires resulting to 93% response rate. The study revealed that students’ fear of crime and security corruption predicts 71.8% of students’ trust in security. Furthermore, security corruption and students fear of crime account for 31.2% of students’ perceived security personnel’s procedural fairness. Finally, the study found that security corruption and students fear of crime accounts for 39.5% of the variability in security personnel’s effectiveness. The study concluded that students’ fear of crime positively affect their trust in campus security, however, the corruption on the part of campus security negatively affect students’ trust in campus security, security personnel’s procedural fairness and effectiveness. The authors recommend that training programmes should be put in place regularly to sensitise personnel’s on the effect of corruption on their integrity and profession.
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    Ghana’s Economic Growth In Perspective
    (Department of Economics, 2010) Baafi, Joseph Antwi
    Economic growth around the world has not been equal for a long time. Some economics grow faster while others grow slower. But economists have predicted that the slower growing economics will eventually converge with the faster growing economy as some point in the future. This is known as the convergence hypothesis. In this study, we test this hypothesis for Ghana and the Western Europeans countries with UK been a proxy for these countries, using time series data to determine whether or not it holds. We determine how fast or slow this convergence process is by using the returns to scale concept on Ghana’s economy and latter account for factor that determines economic growth in sectors. The study supported the null hypothesis of convergence i.e. Ghana is catching up with the Western European countries. The study also shown that Ghana growth accounting exhibit decreasing returns meaning convergence is relatively slow and also signifies that Ghana is not on a balanced growth path (this refers to the simultaneous, coordinated expansion of several sectors of the economy). The study showed a negative relationship between GDP and labour both in the long run and short run relationship. Again the study showed a positive relationship between GDP and capital, Agric and Industrial sector. Lastly, the study showed a negative relationship between GDP and AID and Service in the long run and positive relationship in the short run.
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    Microcredit and Poverty Reduction in Ghana
    (Proceedings of the 30 th International Conference, 2022-05) Effah , Eric Sarkodie; Baafi, Joseph Antwi
    Interest in poverty sprang across the world and necessitated a worldly reduction policy strategy through the millennium development goals. The emergence of the Sustainable Development Goals (No Poverty by 2030) has taken interest in poverty to a higher level. In search for strategies to combat poverty, one strategy was common to all: microcredit. Governments, donors and NGOs around the world responded enthusiastically. In the acknowledgment of microcredit, the UN celebrated the year 2005 as a year of microcredit (Mia, 2005). As a result, microcredit as a financing instrument is perceived to be effective means against hunger and poverty (Duflao, 2007). Ghana stands visible in the area of microcredit (319 microcredit institutions as at March, 2018- BoG, 2018). However, few studies have investigated the effects of microcredit on poverty reduction in Ghana. The factors used are purely qualitative and lacks the quantitative components. Moreover, these studies viewed poverty from a single dimension and lacked nation-wide coverage. This study employs the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) measures of poverty to provide diversified ways of measuring poverty. Also the study adopted the ordered logistic regression to analyse the effect of microcredit on poverty. It was found that amongst ten administrative regions, the incidence of poverty and poverty gap are not evenly distributed. Also, persons who take loan are likely to move into a better welfare bracket and thus reducing poverty. It is recommended it has to be the policy of the central government to educate it citizens on microcredit.
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    What does a Comparison between Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Tell about the Cognition and Institutions as Social Capital in the Extended Market Order?
    (International Journal of Science and Research, 2018) Baafi, Joseph Antwi
    This paper considers cognition and institution as social capital. Its starts from the freedom of Economic report. It was noticed that the core tenants of the freedom of Economics are deeply embedded in the core tenants of social capital which also has strong linkages to culture. Culture also relates to the mind of the people and their way of thinking, by setting the framework within which all interaction that take place can be viewed as crucial elements underlying the lives of people in the larger social existence. Quantitative indicators of culture and institutions as social capital were imputed from the World value Survey and was considered in the four countries under consideration, it was noticed that trust among Latvians though may take time but once given, is very strong. This same cannot be said for Lithuania, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. This can explain to some extent trust in public institution and high rate of economic growth in Latvia than the other countries.
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