Peter Aglobitse

University of Cape Coast | UCC · Department of Economics

Does construction expenditure matter in economic growth, and does the Bon curve hold in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)? This paper answered these questions by reexamining relationship between construction expenditure and economic growth for 33 countries in SSA using an annual data spanning from 1990 to 2014. The main estimation techniques employed were t...

Background: Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness globally, and treatment involves considerable cost to stakeholders in healthcare. However, there is infrequent availability of cost information and patterns of management, especially in developing countries. This study determined the cost of the medical management of POAG, adherenc...

The study aimed at analysing the determinants of enrolment in the Ghana’s national health insurance scheme. This survey was carried out to collect cross-sectional information from a representative sample of 384 households using a pre-tested interviewer-administered questionnaire. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select the respondents. Bin...

Malaria poses a threat to the Ghanaian health system and a huge burden to the economy. In the Sissala West District, the trend of Out-Patients Department (OPD) attendance due to malaria keeps increasing even though the national figures show a decline. The study investigates malaria care provider choice in Sissala West District, using a multinomial...

Inadequate access to credit contributes to poverty among especially women in developing countries. It is evidenced that in patriarchal societies, males are likely to influence investment decisions when loans are granted to their spouses or female relatives. However the existing literature is inconclusive on whether this influence is positive or neg...

Overreliance on biomass energy, such as firewood and charcoal, for cooking in developing countries has contributed to high rates of deforestation and resulted in substantial indoor pollution, which has negatively impacted the health of many individuals. However, the effectiveness of public policies aimed at encouraging households to switch to clean...

This study sought to determine how much individual households are willing to pay for efficient solid waste management in the Bolgatanga municipality as well as what factors influence people’s demand for the services at a particular price. In pursuance of this the contingent valuation method which employed the biding game was used. Using cross tabul...

Fertility preferences are revised in the light of changing life and reproductive circumstances. Over time, an individual's fertility preferences may fluctuate along a continuum. In this study, we describe typical patterns of change (or stability) in individual fertility preferences over a period of five years using a prospective panel study of wome...

Often, studies on health care demand in developing countries examine the effect of household size and number of children in a household, among other relevant variables, on the choice of health care facilities during times of illness. However, literature reveals that health care provider choice varies by gender. Consequently, it is worth decomposing...

Abstract There is accumulating evidence that social diffusion processes affect the pace of the adoption of modern contraception in societies undergoing fertility transition. Insettings where mortality has declined and many other social and economic,changes are underway, decisions about contraception are fraught with uncertainty and risk. In such ci...