The study was carried out to establish the perception of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) by short-term insurance companies in Zimbabwe’s second capital city, Bulawayo. The Zimbabwean insurance companies have not adopted ERM despite the benefits that this holistic approach to ris...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10242
This paper examines the impact of risk management on economic development in developing countries. Based on data from the World Bank, we use a sample of seventy-eight developing economies and find that selected risk indicators do have an effect on economic development in these co...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10378
This study compares export performance for seven agricultural commodities prior to, during and after initiation of the Agricultural Diversification project (1991-1999) in Ghana. This is to help identify the impact of the initiative on Ghana’s agricultural exports and to ascertain...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10715
Annual GDP growth rate in the period of 2000 – 2006 averaged to 7.5% and the inflation was approximately 5%. In the period of 2007-2012, Vietnam’s macroeconomic policy shifted to the aggregated demand management policy. This research used the Keynes – Leontief relation to estimat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10160
This study analysed peasant farmers’ access to agricultural credit in Benue State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 130 randomly sampled peasant farmers in Benue State using a structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyse data c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/3883
Aims: Knowledge and skills needed to be possessed and used by marketing practitioners in order to improve marketing management and firm performance are identified in this paper. Study Design: The data from a survey, where marketing managers, academics and senior students in Slove...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10300
Aims: The purpose of the study is to make a case for the development of middle-range models for use in developing markets by modifying the Elton and Gruber (1976) model to come up with semi-optimized index-tracking models with desirable tracking and excess return features. Study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/8687
Till this day, knowledge surpasses strength in a way we handle different situation. Action may speak louder than words but by doing the wrong action it may bring us unpredictable misfortunes. The society of today is therefore in a dire need of essential knowledge through the use...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/8493
The key to maintaining confidence of clients and the public is a professional and ethical conduct that make accountant act with integrity, objectivity, and independently, even to the sacrifice of personal benefit. The current study aims to examine the impact of accounting ethics...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/9682
Aims: This study examined the different types of humorous advertising on attitude toward advertising and brand in order to analyze the effect on brand recognition and brand recall. Study Design: This study focused on three types of humorous advertisings: cognitive, affective, and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/9947