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
This study analyzed the determinants of poverty among crop farmers in Ogo-Oluwa Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected with the aid of well-structured questionnaires and a total of 80 respondents were chosen through a multistage random sampling techniqu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/2121
Aims: The principal objective of this research is to discern the perceptions of Indian financial institutions towards corporate social responsibility and also attempts to be acquainted with the opinions of employees, customers and general public. Methodology: This paper reviewed...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1977
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of investment in telecommunications infrastructure on economic growth in Nigeria. A multivariate model of simultaneous equations was deployed. The paper also deploys three-stage least squares method to capture the transmission channel...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1886
This paper applied the ARDL and VECM test techniques on economic growth, CO2 emissions, energy consumption and the employment ratio to establish the long run and short run relationships between these variables in Saudi Arabia. The results show that there are long run and short ru...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1673
Aims: This study examines the interrelationship among major antecedents of employee turnover such as HRM practices, organisational culture, attitudes of boss on employees’ intention to quit in Pakistani banking and IT sectors. Study Design: The study employs exploratory research...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1326
Aim: The aim of the study is to test the validity of Schumpeter’s prediction that finance promotes growth using annual time series data from South Africa. Study Design: Case Study Place and Duration of Study: South Africa. Time series data ranging from 1965 to 2010. Methodology:...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1865
Aims: The study examines the relationship between private and public investment in Zimbabwe utilizing yearly time series data for the period 1967 to 2004. Study Design: Time Series Study. Place and Duration of Study: Zimbabwe, May 2011 to July 2011. Methodology: Emphasis is place...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1213
The main purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that the relationship between per-capita sales and per-capita GDP is given by an inverted U. The paper considers that lottery sales increase together with increases in GDP up to a point where a country has reached a level a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1411
This paper adopted the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) test and the error correction model (ECM) techniques to establish the long-run and short -run relationship between worker remittances and economic growth in Pakistan during the period 1976-2010. The results demonstrate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1426
Aim: This study focuses on the construction of a multi-dimensional dynamic indicator of the persistence of poverty over time between different generations from the quantitative and qualitative survey Vulnerabilities and Chronic Poverty in Senegal carried out in 2008/2009. Place a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1239
The paper focuses on the effects of risk assessment (Hirarc) on organisational performance in selected construction companies in Nigeria. Risk assessment (Hirarc) is a structured approach for identifying, evaluating and controlling hazards in the workplace with a view to achievin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1317