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Trade-led Growth and Growth-led Trade Hypotheses in Bangladesh: An ARDL Bounds Test Approach

Md. Abu Hasan, Md. Sanaullah, Mir Khaled Iqbal Chowdhury & Anita Zaman · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

This study investigates the relationship between foreign trade and economic growth using annual data of real GDP (proxied for economic growth), real exports and imports for the period of 1979 to 2014 in Bangladesh. The study operates the bounds testing cointegration procedure and...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/26758

Cognitive Analysis and Modeling of Innovation Potential

Svitlana Labunska, Iegor Iermachenko & Olena Prokopishyna · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

Aim: The main aim of the research is to develop cognitive model for innovation potential evaluation. Study Design: Empirical research of financial, statistic and management reports of enterprises dated 2012 and 2015, analysis of expert findings for the same periods. Place and Dur...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/35127

Manpower Development and Employees’ Performance: Qualitative Assessment of Small and Medium Scale Business in Abuja Nigeria

Obi-Anike ., Happiness Ozioma, Ofobruku Sylvester Abomeh & Okafor Chikodili Nkiruka · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

Manpower development is receiving broader consideration with the emergent of current globalization and unstable job market due to the present economic recession in Nigeria. Developed and developing countries in the world have placed emphases on manpower development as instrument...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/33438

Risk and Risk Management Practices of Rice Millers in Selected Local Government Areas in Cross River State, Nigeria

Ohen Susana Ben & Terence Samuel Elemi · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

The study is on risk and risk management practices of rice millers in selected Local Government Areas in Cross River State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study analyzed the perception of rice millers on sources of risk in rice milling in the study area, identified the various risk m...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/33258

Cost Control Measures and Funds Management in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria: An Impact Analysis

I. E. Asogwa, E. O. Etim & N. I. Etukafia · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

  Efficient funds management is critical to the success of tertiary institutions especially in low income countries such as Nigeria where funding of education is abysmal. While available studies investigated cost elasticity on private demand for education in Nigeria, educational...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/34441

The Relationships between Corporate Social Responsibility and Customer Satisfaction in Taiwan Farmer Association

Canon Tong, Anthony Tik-tsuen Wong & Libby Chien Lu Lin Hsiang · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

Service is dictated by its inseparability, variability, intangibility and perishability characteristics, inherent characteristics that make it more difficult for an organization to market and sustain its marketability. Studies have revealed relationships between Corporate Social...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/34279

Feasibility Study to Evaluate the Potential Entry of a New F-MVNO into the Spanish Mobile Market

Joaquin Tomas & J. L. Melús Moreno · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

The mobile market until a decade ago had been composed mainly of Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). To promote greater competition in this market the European Commission (EC) has promoted various actions in the regulatory and policy environment in Europe. This has significantly fac...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/34309

Impact of Off-farm Sector Involvement on Welfare of Rural Households in Nigeria: A Propensity Score Matching Approach

M. K. Ibrahim, S. O. Adejoh & U. M. Shaibu · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

This study investigated the impact of off-farm employment on the welfare of households in rural Nigeria employing household data obtained from the RIGA database. A sample of 14,512 rural households was used for the study. Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method was employed to eva...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/34092

Cash Management and Performance of Listed Firms in Nigeria

Nwarogu Innocent Augustine & Iormbagah Aondohemba Jacob · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

This study is set to examine cash management and performance of listed firms in Nigeria. The study used ex post factor research design, the secondary data gathered were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation matrix, and Pool Ordinary Least Square Regression. In the re...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/33719

Prepotency of Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission Code of Corporate Governance among Public Companies

G. O. Demaki · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

This study empirically examined the prepotency (i.e. superiority at the level of importance) of the regulatory provisions of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Code of Corporate Governance (CCG) for public companies in Nigeria. A stratified random sampling technique w...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/31522

Demographic Determinants of Savings in ECOWAS

Dayo Benedict Olanipekun & Kemi Funlayo Akeju · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

Countries in ECOWAS had recorded low savings rate in the last three decades. Savings rate as a percentage of GDP in Mali and Sierra Leone were negative in the period considered in this study. Previous studies mainly focused on the determinants of savings in ECOWAS with little att...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/33840

Channels of Foreign Remittances and their Relative Efficiency in Sylhet Region of Bangladesh

Md. Rashid Ahmed, Jiban Krishna Saha, Md. Shah Alamgir & M. Sayeedul Haque · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

The study examines the different channels of receiving foreign remittances and measures their relative efficiency in selected areas of Sylhet region in Bangladesh. The study was carried out based on the primary data collected from eight villages of Sylhet and Moulvibazar district...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/33163

Currency Devaluation and Importation of Rice in Nigeria

O. O. Ehinmowo, O. O. Simon–Oke, A. I. Fatuase & A. P. Akinbolasere · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

Preference for consumption of imported rice by many Nigerians in the face of unstable exchange rate and currency devaluation, informed the determination of the trend of rice importation and the long run equilibrium relationship between naira devaluation and rice importation in Ni...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JEMT/2017/30392

Traditional Handloom of Kargil District, Ladakh

Nazir Ahmed, Maria Abbas, Asif Malik, Afzal H. Akhand, Bilal Ahmad Lone, Lyaqat Ali, Sandeep Kumar & M. I. Bhat · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2017

Handloom weaving is one of the main activity of nomadic people of Kargil district of Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. Weaving becomes their chief occupational priority especially during harsh winter season when they have no agricultural related work to do. The weavers, especia...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2017/33908