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Factors Influencing Income Inequality in Namibia

M. Y. Teweldemedhin · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

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...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19249

Specification of Training Costs in Higher Education

Szilvia Vincze & Zoltán Bács · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

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...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/20287

The Impact of Capital Flight on Economic Development: Nigeria in Focus

Paul C. Obidike, Kalu Ebi Uma, Joseph Chukwudi Odionye & Hycenth O. R. Ogwuru · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

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...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/20122

Role of Total Quality Management (TQM) as a Tool for Performance Measurement in Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME’S) in Ghana

Michael Kwamega, Dongmei Li & Evans Brako Ntiamoah · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

In the phase of globalization and internationalization, businesses and organizations around the globe have launched Total Quality Management (TQM) programs in an endeavor to gain or remain competitive in this dynamic business environment. Herein, this paper focuses on the role of...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/20806

Decentralization and Local Government Autonomy: Quest for Quality Service Delivery in Nigeria

J. O. Fatile & G. L. Ejalonibu · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

Decentralization implies the existence of local government units with bodies that are democratically elected and structured, having broad autonomy and authority as well as indispensable legal, administrative and financial tools for fulfilling their mission. This paper starts by o...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19478

Business Image Improvement and Quality of Products of Meatballs Household Business and Catering

Wirawan ., Wahyu Mushollaeni & Hendrik Suhendri · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

Meatballs household business by Cak Sam and Flamboyant Catering are business groups of society which have been economically productive household-scale enterprises in the area of ​​Malang, East Java. Both of them have been running for nearly three years. However, they still need g...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19479

Reasonable or Unreasonable? The Evolution Analysis of the Chinese Administrative Examination & Approval System—Based on Statistical Analysis of Network News Keywords about Nine Typical Samples

Huixia Cheng, Haoxian Wang & Jia Kang · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

A frequency analysis of network-news reports about nine samples of the Chinese Administrative Examination & Approval System reform, including Beijing, Tianjin, Gansu, Shanxi, Chengdu, Ningbo, Shanghai Pudong district, Chengdu Wuhou district and Guangdong Shunde district, was...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19486

The Relationships between Knowledge Transfer, Knowledge Dissemination Capability and Inter-Organizational Dynamics in Public and Private Sectors Organizations

Lesly Lam, Anthony Wong & Canon Tong · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

This research empirically investigated the relationships between knowledge transfer, knowledge dissemination capability and inter-organizational dynamics in public and private sectors organizations. The research employed a quantitative methodology to investigate the effects of as...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19168

The Product Life Cycle of Durable Goods

Joachim Kaldasch · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

A dynamic model of the product lifecycle of (nearly) homogeneous durables in polypoly markets is established. It describes the concurrent evolution of the unit sales and price of durable goods. The theory is based on the idea that the sales dynamics is determined by a meeting pro...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/20395

Bank Credit and Agricultural Output in Nigeria (1970 – 2013): An Error Correction Model (ECM) Approach

P. N. Nnamocha & Charles N. Eke · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

This work investigated the effect of Bank Credit on Agricultural Output in Nigeria using the Error Correction Mode (ECM). A yearly data (1970- 2013) obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria was used for the analysis. The analysis showed that all the variables were integrated of...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19884