This paper deals with agritourism in Italy and it is based on several recent studies, unpublished papers and statistics. Italy has a long and diversified experience in the agritourism sector, which since 1985 has been formally recognized with a national legislation, accompanied b...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3558
Aims: The purpose of this study is to report confirmatory factor analysis on existing previously validated scales, by means of validating a television viewing scale. Study Design: Survey. Place and Duration of Study: A survey was conducted in the Klang Valley in Malaysia for a p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3751
No doubt that the revolutions of the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria affect macroeconomic variables and stock markets in the national economy. The revolution in Egypt began by a series of popular movements on Tuesday, January 25, 2011. This paper investigate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3768
Sales promotion is a collection of incentive tools designed to stimulate sales of particular products or services in the short-term. The objectives of the study were to identify the Se m’anhyia duck bar soap sales promotion mechanisms adopted and to determine how the sales promot...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3098
The paper is using a two period model of consumption and current account balance and tries to determine the dynamics of the exchange rates by taking into consideration the increases in oil prices, national debts, budget and trade deficits, the global uncertainty, and the enormous...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3232
The magnitude of this study is to explore association between fiscal decentralization and life expectancy in Pakistan. Panel data approach was used to detect the empirically friendship between life expectancy and fiscal decentralization over the period of 1990-2010 in Pakistan. L...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/2462
The study analyzed the physical capacity utilization rates in the sugar industry in the period 1970 to 2010 in Nigeria. Secondary data were obtained from the sugar firms, Central Bank of Nigeria, National Bureau of Statistics and Federal Ministry of Finance. Stochastic Cobb-Dougl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/2940
Aims: The aim of this article is twofold; analyze a performance management system (PMS) in a holistic manner, and evaluate the goodness of this PMS based in its ability to create the ex ante conditions to achieve organizational objectives. Study Design: Case study research. Place...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/2829
Aims: This paper examined the role of export in the economic growth process in Nigeria. Study Design: Case Study. Place and Duration of Study: Nigeria. Time series data ranging from 1970 to 2009. Methodology: The study employs unit root testing, co-integration analysis and VAR G...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/2386
Aim: The aim of the study is to investigate whether or not inflation in South Africa is a structural or monetary phenomenon. Study Design: Case Study. Place and Duration of Study: South Africa. Time series data ranging from 1965 to 2006. Methodology: The study employs unit root t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/2553
Commercialization of subsistence agriculture in developing countries has led to different levels of production and consumption changes for men and women. This study therefore investigated the gender impacts of farm household resource allocation on agricultural commercialization i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/1910
Aims: The objective of this paper is to assess if Nigeria has achieved the path of economic development that will eventually lead to convergence and how long it will take her and at what rate she will be growing to reach her envisioned per capita income of $4,000 in the year 2020...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/1868
Female entrepreneurs are important for economic progress and have an important contribution to employment creation and GDP. They also have value through increasing entrepreneurial diversity. In addition to the growing number of female entrepreneurs across the globe in the last fe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/2470
The paper is a perception survey of the impact of behaviour-based safety (BBS) on accident prevention in the Bonny NLNG construction project. It defines BBS as an accident preventive progamme designed to change employees behaviours from “at risk” to “safe” behaviours using both p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/2391
The study analyzes factors influencing agricultural credit allocation and constraint condition of maize farmers in the Upper-Manya Krobo District in the Eastern region of Ghana. The study uses primary data solicited from 130 maize farmers through the administration of a structure...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/2270