International Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2021
This study examined the determinants of rural household agriculture credit fungibility (CF). The ... more This study examined the determinants of rural household agriculture credit fungibility (CF). The study found agricultural CF among farmers, with approximately 79% of farmers involved in agricultural CF. Household financial burden was found to be the main cause of CF among the studied farmers. Most fungible credit was used for clothing and food consumption. A probit model was employed to analyze survey data collected from four regions in Ghana. We employed an instrumental variable approach (IV-Probit) to test for robustness due to endogeneity issues. The econometric model results show that the variables of off-farm income and farm size inversely influenced agricultural CF, while those of education, household size, male farmer gender, and chronic disease variables had a positive effect on agricultural CF. Our findings have policy implications for alleviating agricultural CF.
The study examined the impact of external financial liberalisation and political institutions on ... more The study examined the impact of external financial liberalisation and political institutions on short term foreign debt in 42 selected sub-Saharan African countries. It answered the question on whether external financial liberalisation and institutionalised democracy reduce short term foreign debt. Both theory and the empirical literature suggest that external financial liberalisation and institutionalised democracy lead to reduced stock of short term foreign debt. By using a dynamic panel data analysis, this study confirmed the hypotheses that external financial liberalisation within the framework of institutionalised democracy leads to reduced stock of short term foreign debt.
Credit has been identified as an essential tool to improve poor households' livelihood. There... more Credit has been identified as an essential tool to improve poor households' livelihood. Therefore, for rural farm households to improve their welfare and invest in productive agriculture activity, access to credit must be promoted. This paper examines how credit accessibility influences rural farm households' farmland abandonment reduction in Ghana. Using survey data collected from four regions in Ghana, the endogenous switching regression (ESR) model, and the problem confronting index (PCI) model were employed in the estimation. The findings revealed that households with access to credit are more likely to not abandon their farmland than a random farmer from the sample. Also, different household groups showed a heterogeneous impact of credit on farmland abandonment. Our findings provide policy implications to reduce farmland abandonment. For example, the negative credit accessibility impact on farmland abandonment implies that government and policymakers should target polic...
Abstract Information and communication and technologies (ICTs) have contributed to national devel... more Abstract Information and communication and technologies (ICTs) have contributed to national development in recent years. However, less is known on how ICT could help improve productivity in the aquaculture field. This study investigates how the use of the Internet can help improve fish farms' productivity. More specifically, using survey data from two regions in Ghana and the econometric model approach, this study explored the quantitative impacts of Internet use on fish farm productivity. The results are as follows. First, the study revealed that Internet use is affected by household total land holdings, access to credit and off-farm employment, education, being a member of an association and how household perceives the use of the internet and household head age. Second, regarding the quantitative relationship, Internet use can help increase farm productivity. Compared with males, the impact of female heads’ Internet use on farm productivity is more prominent. Finally, the productivity effect of Internet use for farmers with no access to off-farm work is greater than that for those with off-farm work access. Our findings provide policy implications to improve farm household Internet use and fish farms production.
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of employment security on moonlightin... more PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of employment security on moonlighting in Ghana as a means to inform policy on enforcing issues of employment security.Design/methodology/approachThe paper followed the work of Shishko and Rostker (1976) by applying their approach to the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey data. The paper created an employment index from four variables and used the ordered logit as the main estimation technique.FindingsThe findings indicated that, as a person with a single job becomes more secured in employment, the likelihood of moonlighting is decreased by 0.03, while for those with two and three or more jobs, the likelihood of moonlighting increased by 0.0297 and 0.0008, respectively, with increasing employment security. This implies that, workers can be made to stick to single jobs by providing them with higher levels of employment security, but once they take on two or more jobs, providing them with employment security wil...
International Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2021
This study examined the determinants of rural household agriculture credit fungibility (CF). The ... more This study examined the determinants of rural household agriculture credit fungibility (CF). The study found agricultural CF among farmers, with approximately 79% of farmers involved in agricultural CF. Household financial burden was found to be the main cause of CF among the studied farmers. Most fungible credit was used for clothing and food consumption. A probit model was employed to analyze survey data collected from four regions in Ghana. We employed an instrumental variable approach (IV-Probit) to test for robustness due to endogeneity issues. The econometric model results show that the variables of off-farm income and farm size inversely influenced agricultural CF, while those of education, household size, male farmer gender, and chronic disease variables had a positive effect on agricultural CF. Our findings have policy implications for alleviating agricultural CF.
The study examined the impact of external financial liberalisation and political institutions on ... more The study examined the impact of external financial liberalisation and political institutions on short term foreign debt in 42 selected sub-Saharan African countries. It answered the question on whether external financial liberalisation and institutionalised democracy reduce short term foreign debt. Both theory and the empirical literature suggest that external financial liberalisation and institutionalised democracy lead to reduced stock of short term foreign debt. By using a dynamic panel data analysis, this study confirmed the hypotheses that external financial liberalisation within the framework of institutionalised democracy leads to reduced stock of short term foreign debt.
Credit has been identified as an essential tool to improve poor households' livelihood. There... more Credit has been identified as an essential tool to improve poor households' livelihood. Therefore, for rural farm households to improve their welfare and invest in productive agriculture activity, access to credit must be promoted. This paper examines how credit accessibility influences rural farm households' farmland abandonment reduction in Ghana. Using survey data collected from four regions in Ghana, the endogenous switching regression (ESR) model, and the problem confronting index (PCI) model were employed in the estimation. The findings revealed that households with access to credit are more likely to not abandon their farmland than a random farmer from the sample. Also, different household groups showed a heterogeneous impact of credit on farmland abandonment. Our findings provide policy implications to reduce farmland abandonment. For example, the negative credit accessibility impact on farmland abandonment implies that government and policymakers should target polic...
Abstract Information and communication and technologies (ICTs) have contributed to national devel... more Abstract Information and communication and technologies (ICTs) have contributed to national development in recent years. However, less is known on how ICT could help improve productivity in the aquaculture field. This study investigates how the use of the Internet can help improve fish farms' productivity. More specifically, using survey data from two regions in Ghana and the econometric model approach, this study explored the quantitative impacts of Internet use on fish farm productivity. The results are as follows. First, the study revealed that Internet use is affected by household total land holdings, access to credit and off-farm employment, education, being a member of an association and how household perceives the use of the internet and household head age. Second, regarding the quantitative relationship, Internet use can help increase farm productivity. Compared with males, the impact of female heads’ Internet use on farm productivity is more prominent. Finally, the productivity effect of Internet use for farmers with no access to off-farm work is greater than that for those with off-farm work access. Our findings provide policy implications to improve farm household Internet use and fish farms production.
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of employment security on moonlightin... more PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of employment security on moonlighting in Ghana as a means to inform policy on enforcing issues of employment security.Design/methodology/approachThe paper followed the work of Shishko and Rostker (1976) by applying their approach to the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey data. The paper created an employment index from four variables and used the ordered logit as the main estimation technique.FindingsThe findings indicated that, as a person with a single job becomes more secured in employment, the likelihood of moonlighting is decreased by 0.03, while for those with two and three or more jobs, the likelihood of moonlighting increased by 0.0297 and 0.0008, respectively, with increasing employment security. This implies that, workers can be made to stick to single jobs by providing them with higher levels of employment security, but once they take on two or more jobs, providing them with employment security wil...
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