Franchise relationships between firms and nations (as either franchisors or franchisees) contribute to macro economic development based on the creation of employment; infrastructural development and generation of income to nations among others. These relationships have shown in-b...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19170
Along with social changes and technological progress, the number of convenience stores and hypermarkets has risen sharply over recent years in Taiwan, and the traditional small ‘mom-and-pop’ stores thus face severe competition. Surprisingly, these stores have not declined in Taiw...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/22005
Revenues generated from taxes constitute a major source of income for governments. However, the epic display of tax evasion by individuals and firms in most countries has induced researches on the factors accounting for tax evasion in developing countries. Therefore, this study i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19267
Decentralized democracies have been referred to as most efficient in delivery of social services in line with the aspirations of the citizens by exercising transparency and ensuring accountability from political actors. Ghana’s 1992 Constitution promulgated in 1993 outlined in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19793
Aims: This study tries to evaluate patients’ satisfaction with a particular view of the specific perceptions of the quality of care in an outpatients department of tertiary care hospital provided by the doctors, nurses and receptionists, considering the waiting time as a separate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/21600
This paper examines factors influencing income per person and inequality, applying hybrid Cobb-Douglas and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The explanatory variables were found to be positively and significant, at one per cent. PCA found that three components “economic opportu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19249
Effective utilization of available resources has become increasingly crucial for institutions of higher education. Global trends put an ever-growing pressure on the financing of the sector: a decreasing amount of resources are available, while costs rise continuously. [1] This ne...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/20287
This study is about working capital management practices by the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana. The objectives of the study include inventory management practices, cash management practices and trade receivables management practices by the SMEs. The study involves b...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19332
The study investigated the impact of capital flight on the economic development of Nigeria. Following the behavioural pattern of the variables on the basis of time series property test involving Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF), we adopted Autoregressive Distributed Lagged model (AR...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/20122
The paper examined budget as instrument of realizing the goal of public policy. Using data generated from secondary sources, it was found that the goals of most policies were not accomplished in Nigeria due to incessant budget failure at the stage of the formulation and implement...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19707