Research Updates
Supply chain managers need good data and information to ensure that vital goods are in stock. To support these decision-makers, CARISCA created the Logistics Managers Index (LMI) for Ghana. CARISCA released its first LMI report in June 2022. The calculated LMI for Ghana, along with the accompanying analysis of its components, provide useful insights for the government of Ghana, business decision-…
Increasing warehousing and transportation capacity combined with decreasing prices in both metrics are driving an economic slowdown in Ghana. The data are revealed in the Ghana Logistics Managers Index report for the second quarter 2023, which was released today.The LMI for the second quarter (64.2) decreased by nearly three points from the first quarter’s 67.1. Any score above 50, however,…
Ghana remains stuck in “slow growth” mode, according to the latest Logistics Managers Index (LMI) report, covering the first quarter of 2024. The overall LMI value hit an all-time low of 62.4. Regardless, the score still reflects an expansion, as has been the case every quarter since the LMI’s inception in March 2022. Any score above 50 indicates that logistics activities are expanding. A…
KNUST supply chain researchers present findings and proposed policy recommendations on factors contributing to high poverty and lack of prosperity for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the North of Ghana.KNUST’s supply chain research team presents its findings and proposed policy recommendations to improve supply chains for women and disadvantaged groups in the North of Ghana in Ghana’s…
Historically, research by African scholars has been significantly underrepresented in international academic publications. Helping to change that situation has been among CARISCA’s top goals since its inception.In the three years before CARISCA’s creation in June 2020, KNUST supply chain faculty had published only 13 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Since that time, they have published nearly…
Does a woman entrepreneur’s personal resilience or the resilience of her business have a greater impact on her well-being? And does it matter what size family she has? A CARISCA researcher finds out. Growing up in a family with nine children in a cocoa-farming village in Ghana, Dominic Essuman is familiar with the stress of having too many mouths to feed. In population terms, it’s called a “…