Aim: This study aims to evaluate the presence of weak form efficiency in the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) using a number of methods that specifically assess the Random Walk Model. Study Design: Multi-model econometric study. Place and Duration of Study: Botswana, Gaborone, betwe...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1071
Aim: To estimate the first demographic dividend in Senegal and discuss the conditions to enjoy it. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Dakar. Methodology: We implemented the national transfers account (NTA) system that allow estimating what each indi...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/922
Managing huge amounts of assets in large banks require regular and constant control, as the slightest weakness in one of such bank’s various fields of activity can affect its assets in the long term. On the other hand, the increasing and expanding private banks and competitions b...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1011
The goal we are pursuing in this work is to make understand and explain the performances of Cameroonian SMEs in foreign markets though considered by the literature as outmoded and traditionalist. To conduct our work, we have used the hypothetico-deductive method. Thus, from the e...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/696
This study examines strategies for enhancing rice innovation system in Southeast Nigeria. Four hundred and ninety six (496) purposively selected actors in rice innovation system were used. Information was collected using questionnaire and interview schedule for illiterate farmers...
Aims: Against the backdrop of global and national energy crisis leading to lingering demand and supply gap of cooking energy in Nigeria, this study was designed to identify the consumption pattern of fuelwood products, profitability of fuelwood supply and the major supply determi...
The liability stream of insurance companies often stretches several years into the future. Therefore, there is always the need to determine a portfolio of bonds or other assets whose cash-flows replicate those of the liability stream. Insurance regulatory authorities require that...
Aims: The purpose of this paper is to examine potential antecedents and consequences of work engagement in a sample of male and female managers and professionals employed in various Universities in Nigeria. Study design: The study adopted the ipso facto research design Place and...
A plethora of studies in recent years have focused attention on the determinants and roles of capital flight in the development process. This paper contributed to this body of knowledge by filling a noticeable gap. Principally, the paper examined the extent and magnitude of contr...
In this paper, we build up the literature by introducing host-country degree of rurality as a factor influencing Multinational Enterprises’ (MNEs) location choice measured by foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. Based on 1999-2007 panel data of 172 countries, we show that hos...