Research Questions The study’s aim is to identify expatriate workers who have gone through culture shock whilst working in Accra Ghana, define culture shock, understand and explain how to overcome it. The research will be looking at the various forms of culture shock that are peculiar to expatriates coming to Africa. And try to figure out how these various forms of psychological cultural traumas can be surmounted. The research is mainly qualitative because qualitative research tends to focus on
systems. Professor Danquah’s “aha” moment was when he finally realized as an adult how the Ghana cocoa farming industry exploited migrant
The Bretton Woods Institutions’ understading of development was to quickly gain significant economic development, which in their prescription was a prerequisite to social development, which would follow after a certain amount of economic development has been achieved. Yet, in reality the experience of a country going through enormous developmental changes such as Ghana is, has shown that achieving economic targets alone does not automatically secure the existence of sound social protection
its use has always been dictated by its availabilityin terms of quantity and quality. Water problems of the world are
inclusion refers to the fact that a person owns an account at a formal financial institution. Such an account allows to save and borrow money formally, to contract insurance or to use payment services. Being financially included leads therefore to economic benefits. It can favor disadvantaged and poor
running of any economy and in fostering accelerated economic growth in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) (Ketema,2006). Government spending encompasses the expenses made by the government for the maintenance of itself and for the provision of public goods, services and works needed to promote economic growth and improve the welfare of people. It is also through spending that the government adopts various fiscal measures to ensure stability, stimulate economic activities and growth (Santiago and Gaobo, 2005)
about the in the country called Ghana to justify my point. Human rights they say is said to the rights and freedom to all which human beings are entitled. This is ay that everyone is enriched with certain privilege simply due to be a human. Ghana is a sovereign country in the West Africa. It was a British colony until the 6th March 1957 when it gained its independence. Freedom in the world reports, which is published annually by the freedom house recently rated Ghana as a country whose rights are free
namely geographical and economic factors. According to them, a major part of West Africa is in the Sahelian ecological zone where agro-climatic conditions are very bad and the capacity for food production is low. Huge areas of land cannot support food crop production in some countries while in some others, rainfall is so low and erratic that crop yields are not only low but also highly unstable. On the demand side, food security is affected by household incomes and economic assets (including stocks
Ghana is a West African country with a population of nearly twenty six million inhabitants. Children constitute almost half of the population (MESW & UNICEF, 2010). An elected president is the head of state of the presidential governmental system. To ensure fair allocation of resources and efficient administration, the ten administrative regions are decentralised into 216 municipal, metropolitan, and district assemblies. Ghana has experienced rapid economic growth and political stability in the last
This research reviews literature on the important role of energy in economic growth and development highlighting the use of energy in production. 2.1 Energy Consumption & Economic Growth Various literatures, have established a relationship between energy supply, its consumption and economic growth with respect to developing and developed countries. From each of these papers, it can be conveniently established from the cases studied that an adequate and reliable supply of energy is a prerequisite