Participation of citizen is crucial for development (of) and democracy. It is recognized by world scholar that citizen participation has a positive effect on the quality of democracy. This study examines the relation between participatory budgeting and public accountability for t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/27286
TRIPs agreement on industrial property part provides for intellectual property rights aspects as reflected in terms of patents, trademarks, industrial designs, utility models, service marks, trade names, geographical indication and repression of unfair competition. Rwanda became...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28002
Rwanda as a least developed country is in economic transformation process for which it aimed at moving from agrarian based economy to knowledge and private sector led economy thereby agricultural labor intensive activities get replaced by industry and service dominance. With econ...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28001
The main objectives of the study are to investigate, analyze and evaluate scientific positions of scientists - economists in relation to the economic content of operational control and its importance as a management function; find out its differences from other forms and types of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28050
The role of non-bank financial institution towards financial intermediation process in Nigeria is not fully noticed. It is against this background that we assess the effect of non-bank financial institutions on financial intermediation process as well as the long run relationship...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28359
Aims: The aim of the article is to systematize and improve existing theoretical approaches to the classification of biotechnology as a part of NBIC-technologies for bioeconomy. Study Design: The reviews were carried out in the period 2005–15 on the basis of studying the world cou...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28151
The aim of this study was to analyse factors affecting consumers’ preferences. The study was conducted in Windhoek; multiple stage sampling was employed to collect data. That is first stage was cluster sampling methods (to characterise the population to lower, middle and higher i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/27336
MSEs have become important economic activities particularly in providing employment and other business activities for unemployed and low income households. The objective of this study is to determine the role of financial institutions in growth and productivity of MSEs in Yirgale...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/25814
Green purchasing can reduce negative environmental impacts as well as promote sustainable development. As related literature from the African context is limited, this paper tries to bridge the gap by investigating the green purchasing behaviors of residents in the Tamale Metropol...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/27676
In the current changing world, the question of access to energy sources has become a concern for many countries. This article aims to identify the structural determinants of the level of energy consumption in a country heavily depending on imported energy by taking the example of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/27636
This paper shows the results of an investigation aimed to determine if some organizational and market variables are related to the propensity of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to use renewable energy. The methodology of the study is correlational, and uses statistica...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/27238
Continuous data with substantial proportion of zero values arise often in many disciplines. Modeling such zero-inflated data is always challenging. We use Tweedie model to analyze zero-inflated continuous outcome with a view to evaluate the effect of job training on future earnin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/26043
This paper empirically examines the extent of satisfaction experienced by customers and their switch intention within the Ghanaian banking industry, with special focus on Ghana Commercial bank. The study involved a cross-sectional survey of 200 respondents using structured questi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/26494
There are several factors that affect working capital management on profits of insurance companies in Ghana. The main objective of the study is to determine the factors that significantly influence the profitability of insurance companies in Ghana. Principal Component Analysis (P...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/25732
Satisfying students is an important factor towards quality university education because students are the major customers of universities. This study analysed service quality, price and student satisfaction in Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola. The major objective is to...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/26071