Despite the strategies implemented by governments and donors over the past fifty years, the obstacles to the promotion of a strong and sustainable economic growth in the WAEMU remain considerable. The objective of this paper is to describe the factors explaining the slow economic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10637
Green Finance directs funds to transfer to the green industries by providing environmental friendly financial services, to support technical development and creations, which plays an important role in improving ecological environment and promoting sustainable economic development...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/12321
Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 1993 to replace Sales Tax. The aim was to increase the revenue base of government and make funds available for developmental purposes that will accelerate economic growth. The paper empirically examined...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/11013
Customs clearance is a force step on international trade. The evolution and grow of international trade has made more important and complex the task assigned to customs services. Now day’s customs administration is a relevant regulatory operator in international trade and goods m...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/12156
Aims: This paper examines the causal links among Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), exports and economic growth in Burundi. Methodology: The paper applies bootstrap causality tests to account for non-normality in error terms and the presence of ARCH effects in which case the Wald s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/12454
Aims: This study explores the prime motives and barriers that drive or inhibit the Portuguese exporting Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to exhibit at an international trade fair. Study design: Survey, based on a questionnaire sent by email. Place and Duration of Study: 68 Po...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/11450
A developed and efficient credit market encourages savings, allocative efficiency of investible funds and promotion of capital accumulation. Countries with deeper credit market face less severe business cycle, output contraction and lower chances of an economic downturn. This wil...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/12024
The present study aims to investigate the relationship role conflict, job control, social support and job performance among administration staff in University Utara Malaysia (UUM), Kedah. The research was designed by using quantitative approach and survey was conducted between 6t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/12098
Limited access to credit is one of the key factors inhibiting the growth of micro-small-medium scale enterprises (MSME’s) in developing countries like Ghana. Hence, this study sought to identify determinants of access to credit and the factors influencing the volume of credit dis...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/11351
Nigeria export earnings especially from oil, makes up over 25% of its GDP and over 90% of its annual budget. This makes the economy an attractive case study in the field of trade. This study investigated the short-run shock transmission and long-run multiplier analyses between ex...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/9510
Empirical research documents that overconfidence has a strong impact on investment decision. In this experimental study using a within-subject design and entrepreneurial process, we detail this relationship by introducing a stage of identification (initial knowledge about the ent...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10927
Cities play a key role in the modern global economy. They became full-fledged (together with states, multinational corporations and international economic organizations) subjects of international economy relationships; concentrated financial and commodity markets, enormous produc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/11698
Knowledge, and its application, is perceived as one of the key sources of competitiveness and growth in the global economy. In actuality, all kinds of intangible resources available to a country or region can offer a relative advantage and, in combination with others, yield futur...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/8543
The major purpose of this study is to critically examine decision theory with a view to identifying and evaluating its relevance to real estate development decisions. The theoretical research approach was adopted for this study. The study revealed that real estate development inv...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/5574
This paper assessed the comparative advantage of walnut production in Iran and determined that how far the current set of policies is consistent with the comparative advantage. The domestic resource cost (DRC) has been applied. DRC method relies on production cost data to compare...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/9896