This study investigated the role of Microfinance Banks on employment generation in Karu Local Government Area (L.G.A) of Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The aim is to ascertain the extent to which microfinance banks have discharged their responsibilities of transforming the rural areas...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35325
The paper assesses whether energy consumption leads to economic growth in Bangladesh applying the ARDL (autoregressive distributed lag) bounds testing approach of cointegration. We use time series data for the period from 1979 to 2014. Results report that energy use and economic...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/34156
This paper argues that for economies that have structural rigidities and irregularities, the received knowledge of equilibrium in the demand and supply of money should be interrogated. The paper proposes a third variable – equilibrium bias – to test its significance. Using quarte...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35169
Malaysia’s external debt has been on an increase, which has become a national concern. Data used for this study was from 1970 to 2013. The VECM results showed that external debt had no transitory but a permanent relationship with the determinant variables. Exchange rate, recurren...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35031
The study aimed at determining the effect of adopted competitive strategy on the outcomes of SMEs in Nigeria. The sample size of the study comprised of 1231 owner-managers from selected Small and Medium scale Enterprises within four sectors in Nigeria. The instrument used was str...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/34233
This research work focuses on the role played by predictive ratios in effort to check incidence of creative accounting in the financial reporting system of Dangote Cement Nigeria Plc. It examines whether the impact of joint application of the Beneish 8-Predictive Ratios and the A...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35679
Patron Demand Deposit Account (PDDA) is a particularly unique system of raising cheap funds in cooperatives. However, because primary cooperatives lack the skills to manage PDDA and due to absence of necessary regulatory framework to control its operation, there have been calls f...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/28703
The nexus between financial management practices and women entrepreneurship development is crucial to entrepreneurial success. This study examined the relationship between financial management practices and performance of women entrepreneurs in Nigeria. Stratified and simple rand...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35236
This study examined the effect of Working Capital Management (WCM) practices on the performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Oyo State, Nigeria. The relationship between cash management practices and the performance of SMEs was examined and the impacts of inven...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35237
Information is needed in all spheres of life, either to facilitate decision-making or for progress in daily work. People need information about new development. A manager needs information about his business. A businessman as a wholesaler or retailer needs information to set up n...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/34743