Practically, contributions are flat across schemes and socio- economic groups although Act 650 of 2003 and 852 of 2012 required and still requires contribution according to ability and healthcare according to need. Participants also noted the disconnection between increases in membership, utilisation and...
Additionally, the following legislation regulates the administrative aspects of mining operations: the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992); the Incorporated Partnership Act, 1962 (Act 152); the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre Act, 2013 (Act 865); the Income Tax Act, 2015 (Act 896); the Labour Ac...
Premiums. Covered health services were financed through a Health Insurance Levy (a 2.5 percent tax on specific goods and services made in or imported to Ghana), and the payment of insurance premiums. NHIS annual premiums were income-related, set at a minimum of 72,000 Ghana cedis (GHS) per...
Ghana has made significant progress toward sustainable management of its forest resources via the adoption of different forest regulations like the Forest and Wildlife Policy of 1994, Timber Resources Management Act, of 2002, etc. The problem with most of the country’s forest resource policies is ...
The passage of the SBI Act, 1958 was believed to have done little to gain the needed impact knowhow”. However, it was until after the passage of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act which was perceived to have unlocked the critical resources. Afterwards, there was an unprecedented ...
Second, corruption is an additional tax which increases the cost of doing business (Cuervo-Cazurra2016; Fisman and Svensson2007). Since corruption exists among political elites, it is plausible to posit that stronger political ties will not reduce firms’ exposure to demands for irregular payments....
A way of reducing global warming and tackling Ghana’s energy sector crisis, known as Dumsor, is through renewable energy usage. Nevertheless, the advancement of the renewable energy industry is contingent on economic growth, the availability of financia
Incentives could be made available by the Government of Ghana for universities as a policy by adopting a modified version of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 by the U.S. government [48,101]. Furthermore, tax holidays could be given to industries patronizing TTOs’ services, and public procurement...
By application of the means test, an indigent person is the person that is unemployed, has no source of income, no fixed place of residence and does not receive support from any person [17,18]. But the challenge in the application of the means test had changed with the new Act (852)...
Table 8. Chi-square test for the relationship between preferences for increased fuel and road tax on private vehicles and sociodemographic characteristics. 6. Discussion Travel demand management strategies are designed to reduce the demand for private vehicle travel and encourage the use of alternative...