Tea production, a leading export crop in Kenya and produced largely by smallholders was analyzed to determine how the input and output prices adjust to both inflation and exchange rates. It was hypothesized that prices received and prices paid by farmers are not cointegrated and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12398
Present study examined macroeconomic determinants of external debt in Pakistan using annual time series data from 1976 to 2010.Cointegration technique has been used to find long run equilibrium relationship while short run dynamics have been analyzed using ECM. By applying ARDL m...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/8837
A market economy functions through competitive model where pricing is the control and indirect agent of economic development. Imperfect markets however result from various influences that are dominant enough to creating information asymmetry thereby causing unsystematic disequili...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13851
This paper is an attempt to investigate the impact of services trade on economic development of Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries. Our analysis is based on a panel data framework over the period 1990 to 2010 covering thirty-three countries. The paper employs the endogenous growt...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13474
The research investigated the technical efficiency of farmers in Kebbi State Nigeria, with the aim of generating reliable information on the determinants of efficiency. In order to achieve the objective of the study, Data Envelopment Analysis, Double Bootstrapping procedure withi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14155
Aims: This paper aims to provide insights into the measurement of decision making efficiency and decision making behaviour by establishing a “holistic“ theoretical approach, which extensively considers quantitative, qualitative and situational cause-effect relations in decision...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13486
The study was aimed at assessing the relationship that exist between some demographic factors and the job satisfaction level of Senior University Staff. A modified version of the Job Diagnostic Survey developed by Hackman and Oldham (1980) was distributed to 1535 Senior Universit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13525
The purpose of this study is: (1) To determine and analyze the effect of individual characteristics on employee’s motivation to transfer: (2) To determine and analyze the effect of individual characteristics on learning transfer; (3) To determine and analyze the effect of superv...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13132
This study examines the impact of the volatility of oil price on economic growth in 20 sub-Saharan African countries from the period of 1986-2012. These countries were divided into group A and group B. Group A consists of 10 oil exporting countries, while group B consists of non...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12921
This paper contributes to the debate on the relevance of institutions to economic development in Nigeria. Based on the taxonomy of institutions into informal and formal elements and the seeming overemphasis on the latter, the paper extends the argument further by stressing that N...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12243