...Nicholas Oppong Mensah; Jacqueline Joyce Twintoh; Ernest Christlieb Amrago; Anthony Donkor; Samuel Afotey Anang Purpose The study analyses the preference for forestry insurance amongst tree growers in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Specifically, the authors examine the factors influencing the amount...

... of the study. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Africa Efficiency Ghana Banks Emerging markets Income diversification Stochastic frontier analysis The financial reforms in many African countries in the early 1990s have shifted the focus to the generation of non-traditional...

...O. Felix Ayadi; Uric B. Dufrene; Amitava Chatterjee Surveys African stock markets to find out if they are as efficient as developed markets, and follow the same “turn‐of‐the‐year” pattern as other markets. Compares Ghana, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, and focuses on the period between 1985 and 1995...