Aims: This study examines the interrelationship among major antecedents of employee turnover such as HRM practices, organisational culture, attitudes of boss on employees’ intention to quit in Pakistani banking and IT sectors. Study Design: The study employs exploratory research...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1326
Aim: The aim of the study is to test the validity of Schumpeter’s prediction that finance promotes growth using annual time series data from South Africa. Study Design: Case Study Place and Duration of Study: South Africa. Time series data ranging from 1965 to 2010. Methodology:...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1865
Aims: The study examines the relationship between private and public investment in Zimbabwe utilizing yearly time series data for the period 1967 to 2004. Study Design: Time Series Study. Place and Duration of Study: Zimbabwe, May 2011 to July 2011. Methodology: Emphasis is place...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1213
The main purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that the relationship between per-capita sales and per-capita GDP is given by an inverted U. The paper considers that lottery sales increase together with increases in GDP up to a point where a country has reached a level a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1411
This paper adopted the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) test and the error correction model (ECM) techniques to establish the long-run and short -run relationship between worker remittances and economic growth in Pakistan during the period 1976-2010. The results demonstrate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1426
Aim: This study focuses on the construction of a multi-dimensional dynamic indicator of the persistence of poverty over time between different generations from the quantitative and qualitative survey Vulnerabilities and Chronic Poverty in Senegal carried out in 2008/2009. Place a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1239
The paper focuses on the effects of risk assessment (Hirarc) on organisational performance in selected construction companies in Nigeria. Risk assessment (Hirarc) is a structured approach for identifying, evaluating and controlling hazards in the workplace with a view to achievin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1317
Aims: To determine the value of constructed wetlands for water reuse projects. Study Design: Replacement/Avoided cost modeling and benefit transfer. Place and Duration of Study: George W. Shannon Wetlands, Texas. Methodology: Two approaches are compared, replacement costs and wil...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1397
Aims: To find out suitable tourism forecasting models of each border checkpoints under the concern of seasonal adjustment. Study Design: Time series study. Place and Duration of Study: We used secondary time series data from immigration Bureau office 2004-2010.Three GMS countries...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1126
Aims: To ascertain the risk status of farming households and whether the risk status is accentuated by some factors. The specific objective is to determine the relationship between their risk status and socio-economic characteristics and food security status in the study area. St...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1284
Aim: This study aims to evaluate the presence of weak form efficiency in the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) using a number of methods that specifically assess the Random Walk Model. Study Design: Multi-model econometric study. Place and Duration of Study: Botswana, Gaborone, betwe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1071
Aim: To estimate the first demographic dividend in Senegal and discuss the conditions to enjoy it. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Dakar. Methodology: We implemented the national transfers account (NTA) system that allow estimating what each indi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/922
Managing huge amounts of assets in large banks require regular and constant control, as the slightest weakness in one of such bank’s various fields of activity can affect its assets in the long term. On the other hand, the increasing and expanding private banks and competitions b...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1011
The goal we are pursuing in this work is to make understand and explain the performances of Cameroonian SMEs in foreign markets though considered by the literature as outmoded and traditionalist. To conduct our work, we have used the hypothetico-deductive method. Thus, from the e...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/696
This study examines strategies for enhancing rice innovation system in Southeast Nigeria. Four hundred and ninety six (496) purposively selected actors in rice innovation system were used. Information was collected using questionnaire and interview schedule for illiterate farmers...