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Etse Lossou 10424363 Topic: Impact of Traffic Congestion on Commuters; a case study of Accra-Kasoa Road Literature Review Road Traffic congestion has always been a major problem all over the world. Both the developed and developing countries are battling with the problem but with different degree of commitment. On the 14 of October 2014, a study from INRIX and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) revealed that the total cumulative cost of congestion in the UK’s economy is…

Question: You will look at the marketplace within your expertise and identify a business opportunity. Apply various concepts covered in the course thus far such as strategic competitive advantage. Provide a simple business case for the new innovation; consider all aspects of costs (labour, materials, etc.) and possible sources of revenues and applications. Answer: The answer is based on the concept of Drucker’s management By Objectives (MBO), Ansoff’s work on corporate strategy and Porter’s…

Both of her parents are from Africa; her father is from Nigeria and her mother from Ghana. Her parents met in Ghana after her father moved from Nigeria to Ghana. There is no history of mental illness in her family. Melinda is the fourth oldest child out of seventeen, but her mother’s first. Her father is married to three wives. In her culture, men can marry as many wives…

With an ever strengthening global economy, here in California, we’re not strangers to the life of privileged consumption. Most of us have grown so accustomed to this reality that we frivolously go about our day to day lives without a question as to where the products that we’re purchasing are actually coming from. One example of this, is something as simple as the chocolate that is pumped into our extravagant Starbucks mocha. This is where things becomes critically important, because the vast…

While working as a national service personnel at the Ministry of Water Resource, Works and Housing in Ghana, after my associate degree in Public Administration, I was fortunate to be involved in project management roles at the ministry. This gave me a fascinating insight into the challenges that confront project managers – risk management, contracts, project initiation, planning, financial management, socio-cultural effects on schedule control and environmental sustainability. In my experience,…

Some might ask, “What is a project loon?” A project loon is described as “balloon-powered Internet for everyone”. (2) The balloons are fifteen meters across and are filled with helium. The altitude of these balloons is about twenty kilometers. The balloons contains solar-powered electronics inside a boxy gondola. These electronics send high-speed cellular Internet coverage to devices. The balloon has special software that guides these balloons while they are in flight. Project Loon is named for…

Economically speaking, globalisation is a process that involves transferring resources from one country to another. The significant aspect of economic globalisation is that it involves lessening or even eliminating barriers that constrain the free movement of trade, business, and so on. Chomsky, an american writer and political activist has an assorted critique of globalisation. Global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the…

I believe that this experience made me mature more than I probably would ever have if I were in Ghana, because for the first time in my life I had to solely take care of every issue on my own and make my own decisions. It made me realize that, true goes the saying that “nothing is too difficult if you really want something in life”, no matter how difficult…

Question 1 - Ghana: An Africa Dynamo Case background information In 1957, The East African nation of Ghana gained its independence from British. The problem of corruption was rampant in Ghana for the next few decades. Most of the Ghana economy was dominated by state-owned enterprises because of their colonial past and socialist ideology adopted by the government. In 1981, a coup put Jeremy Rawlings in power. He started effective anticorruption operation and liberalize the economy. Also, he…

According to World Health Organization (2009), adolescents are individuals between the ages of 10 and 19 who go through transitional stages of physical and psychological human development. Some of the physical changes that adolescents go through are widening of hips, growth of facial and pubic hair, development of breasts, menstruation, enlargement of the penis, and consistent erection. The psychological changes also include, high level of curiosity and explorative of the opposite sex. These…