ABSTRACT This study examined role of microfinance institutions in development of small and microentrepreneurs in Chake Chake, Pemba district in Tanzania. In this manner, the study investigated aspects of debt recovery, loan levels and clients’ business project monitoring procedures as specific objectives of the study. In the literature review, theories were used to support the study and concepts linked and analyzed to bring a conceptual framework. As such, different scholars’ views regard...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between procurement planning and accountability of local government in Bosaso Puntland Somalia. The study was guided by three objectives, determine; extent of procurement planning, extent accountability of local government, and whether there was a significant relationship between procurement planning and accountability of local government in Bosaso Puntland Somalia. The study comprised of a population of 190 respondents who included local governmen...
Abstract This study was undertaken to assess women's perceptions and practices of early marriage in Borama district, Somaliland.The study was guided by the following research objectives; to determine the perceptions of Somaliland women on early marriage in Borama district, Somaliland, to examine maniage practices in Borama district, Somaliland and to establish the cultural inclination of Somali land women on early marriage in Borama dist1ict, Somaliland. This study adopted cross-sectional sur...
Abstract This study examined the impact of monetary policy instruments on inflation targeting in Nigeria over the period of1980-2017. To achieve the objective of the study, annual time series data on inflation target rates (INFTR), monetary policy rate (MPR), commercial banks deposit rate (CBDR), commercial banks deposits with CBN (CBDC) and reserve requirements (RRQT) was collected from the database of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) (2018). The data was analysed using the autoregressive d...
Abstract This study examines the long-run impact of interest rate, exchange rate and inflation on private sector investment to in Nigeria over a period of 1980 – 2018. To achieve the objectives, annual time series data on real interest rate (RINT), exchange rate (EXCR), inflation rate (INFL) and private sector investment (PSIV) were collected from the publications of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and was analysed using the Johansen co-integration model. The co-integration result reveals...
Abstract This study uses monthly data covering the period January, 2007 – September, 2018 to examine the response of monetary policy to inflation persistence in Nigeria. Persistence in three inflation indicators (core inflation, food inflation and headline inflation) were estimated using the univariate structural time series model (STSM) and Bayesian vector autoregressive (BVAR) model and the results were compared. Findings from the results of analysis reveal evidence of high inflation pers...
AbstractThis study uses annual data spanning over 1986 - 2018 to test the existence of random walk hypothesis in the Nigerian stock market. Findings from the study reveal that the three variables of the study are not stationary at level, but are stationary only at first difference. However, ASI and MCP that were stationary at levels when KPSS was employed with intercept and trend included in the estimation. This suggests that the Nigerian stock market follows a random walk and as such, stock ...
Abstract This study examines the impact of money supply on Economic Growth in Nigeria using time series data spanning 1980-2019. Data on currency in circulation (CIC), narrow money supply (M1), broad money supply (M2) and real gross domestic product (RGDP) were collected from the online database of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and were analyzed using the unrestricted Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model. Impulse response function (IRF) and Cholesky variance decomposition (VDC) were also obt...
Limited empirical studies have disaggregated the government spending into infrastructure and consumption expenditures in this thematic area. More so, Kenya has witnessed a tremendous increase in spending on infrastructural projects such as highways, road, ports, fiber optic, standard gauge railway, and massive investment in road management and maintenance. All these efforts are meant to accelerate the realization of the Kenya Vision 2030 as well as the ‘Big Four’ agenda of the Kenyan gove...
ABSTRACT The study looked at the relationship between product quality and sales of financial services, a case study of three selected branches of Amal Bank in Mogadishu City — Somalia. The study was guided by the following objectives: - To determine the perceived quality components of financial product or service To ascertain the nature of the sales experience of financial products, or services To find out the relationship between quality and sales of financial products or services. The req...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at credit management and customers’ willingness to settle bills of National Water and Sewerage Corporation — Kampala Water. The study was guided by the following objectives: To find out the relationship between credit management and customers’ willingness to settle water bills. The research study was carried out to investigate how credit management can be best orientated to enhance and improve the collection margin. The study was carried out from National Water ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated Capital accessibility and Entrepreneurship among youth in Gasabo District, Rwanda, was guided by six research objectives that were set to: (1) to determine the profile of the respondents in terms of; age, gender, level of education, experience, (2) to determine the level of capital accessibility among youths in Gasabo District; (3) to determine the level of entrepreneurship among youths in Gasabo District; (4) to establish whether there is a significant relatio...
ABSTRACT The study sought to establish the relationship between motivation and employee performance in SC Darling ltd Kampala, Uganda. The study was guided by three specific objectives, that included i) determining the extent of motivation in SC Darling Ltd Kampala; ii) the level of employee performance in SC Darling ltd Kampala, Uganda. and (iii) the relationship between the extent of motivation and employee performance in SC Darling ltd Kampala, Uganda. This research employed descriptive co...
ABSTRACT The effort to employ electronic banking technology in providing banking services and the extent to which those service satisfy the customers have become a serious policy issue in the South Sudan banking industry (BOSS Report, 2016).Many banks customers are still ignorant about this technology hence system is still underutilized yet it requires high investment to be implemented and or adopted by commercial institutions. The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship betwee...
ABSTRACT This paper set out to investigate the relationship between Investment and Economic growth in Uganda from 1980 to 2010. The study employed the expost facto research design since it basically examined secondary data; it was also a descriptive-correlation since it was interested in examining the relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variable. The Population of this study were the published reports on the variables of the study from 1980 to 2010. The study targ...