Risk Management and Social Visibility in Ghana

Risk Management , Insurance and Social Networks in Ghana

Financial support for this research was provided by the United States Agency for International Development’s Strategies and Analyses for Growth and Access (SAGA) Project, the Social Science Research Council’s Program in Applied Economics on Risk and Development (through a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation), the Yale Economic Growth Center and the Pew Charitable Trusts...

Electronic waste risk assessment and management in Ghana

Flood risk management in Ghana: A case study in Accra

Several natural disasters have occurred from the days of biblical Noah until now. These natural disasters have taken various forms like; floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruption tsunamis, tornadoes, landslides, hurricane, and among others. Within the past decades, flooding has become a global pandemic which hampers economic and social development. This global phenomenon has affected 4 million peo...

Social media and research visibility.

Assessing the value of scientific research output, an important component of academic promotion and tenure, is increasingly based on metrics such as the Impact Factor, H-index, and more recently Google Scholar, that attempt to numerically encapsulate an author’s productivity and scholarly impact. The H-index, discussed by AJNR Editor-in-Chief Mauricio Castillo in a 2010 editorial, and an expand...

efl teachers job satisfaction and social capital in relation to students’ motivation

abstract this mixed method study examines whether there is any relationship among the variables of the study (job satisfaction, social capital and motivation). the researcher considered job satisfaction and social capital as independent variables; motivation is the dependent variable of the study. the researcher applied a questionnaire to assess each variable. to measure efl teachers’ job sati...