This paper investigates the effect of foreign capital on poverty reduction. For our analysis, we used recent panel data for ten West African countries* for the period 2000 - 2014. Results of the empirical test of the simultaneous equation model indicate that foreign capital affec...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/38479
Aims: This paper examined the impact of unemployment on economic growth in Tanzania and causal relationship between unemployment and economic growth in Tanzania. Methodology: The study utilized co-integration and Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) Approach to test the relations...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/38500
Natural gas is a fossil fuel with the highest energy efficiency and can provide a transition to a cleaner and more secured energy future as it complements the environmental attractiveness of renewable energy. However there are various, but not insuperable barriers to harnessing n...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/35394
This paper evaluates Nigeria’s federal budget and its performance. The paper adopted the descriptive and analytical research method, using ex-post ‘facto’ data analysis of secondary data extracted from various budget documents, financial and economic reports of the Federal Republ...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/34646
Corporate Social Responsibility has become the norm and among the well accepted practices of organizations in the 21st Century. Even though it is not mandatory in most countries, the society has made it morally unacceptable for institutions to overlook these aspect of their opera...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/33399
Aims: Many organizations adopt the Lean management approach to create a culture of continuous improvement (CI), but often fail to accomplish such a change. Previous studies have explained this high failure rate in terms of poor leadership and management, including the role of mid...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/38100
The stock market of a country operates in the economy of that country and the economic conditions of the country affect the stock prices of the stocks listed in the stock exchanges of the country. And it is believed that macroeconomic variables of a country and the stock prices o...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/38090
The paper investigated the relationship between monetary policy and stock market prices in Nigeria and through assess whether monetary policy influences stock market prices, for the period 1985 to 2015. The Dynamic and Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS & FMOLS) tech...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/37882
The study ascertained effect of treasury single account and accountability in the Nigeria Public Sector. Two specific objectives guided the study, while two research questions was raised and two hypotheses were formulated in line with the specific objectives and tested at 0.05 le...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/37780
An economy is a dynamic system where new companies are constantly created, divisions and mergers take place and bankruptcies occur. A theoretical question arises if there is some kind of ’optimum’ or ’final’ steady-state distribution of company sizes or is it all based on random...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/36828
Policy makers in Nigeria tend to regard public infrastructure as the key to long-run industrial and economic growth. But unfortunately, public infrastructure in Nigeria is typically in a fairly poor condition. Poor infrastructure reduces the profitability of modern manufacturing...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/37144
The complexities arising from the fluctuations of economic environmental factors have constituted core difficulties encumbering the operations of small and medium scale enterprises in Nigeria. This led to collapse of businesses, loss of jobs and unprecedented decline on their per...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/36349
Stress is often described as a silent killer because the effect of stress is not readily apparent and it is observed that high level of stress is found at workplace. Job is part and parcel of life. Stresses on the job affect the efficacy and efficiency of a person. Hence, if one...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/36123
The study investigates the effects of population age structure, that is, the number of people who could potentially be economically active (15-65 years) on carbon dioxide emissions in Africa at different income levels. The study seeks to determine whether the economically active...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/27663
This study examined accountants’ perception of IPSAS acceptance in Nigerian public sector financial management and reporting. There are conflicting or divergent views as to what will accrue or what Nigeria stand to gain as result of adoption or implementation of IPSAS in Nigerian...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/36662