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Household Level Gender Roles and Empowerment in a Coffee Value Chain in Gomma and Limmu Kossa Districts of Jimma Zone, Ethiopia
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2018
Pages:
62-67
Received:
20 September 2018
Accepted:
8 October 2018
Published:
14 November 2018
Abstract: Gender is the socially and culturally constructed differences associated with being a man or a woman. For providing the opportunity of substantial economic and income growth in a country, the growing integration of gender issues in a value chain has part. The objective of this study was to analyse intra-household gender roles and empowerment of men and women with in the household and suggesting strategies for addressing gender based constraints of farmers in a coffee value chain. Two-stage stratified and random sampling procedures were employed; and a total of 120 male headed smallholder farmers (where both men and women are present together) from six kebeles were used for intra-household gender analysis. Data were collected from both secondary and primary sources through semi-structured questionnaire, checklists, and focus group discussion. Descriptive gender analysis by Moser gender framework was used to analyse data. The result of gender analysis revealed that women’s and men’s role for coffee business in a household was divided by task. Women undertaken mostly the processing, seedling rising and unpaid community activities as an extension of their reproductive role and are normally unpaid and carried out in their free time. On the other hand, men tend to be associated more with production and marketing roles than in postharvest handling and processing activities. However, it is examined that unlike women’s overall participation in a value chain was highly acknowledged, they still tend to be confined to a relatively less access to and control over resources and benefits earned from coffee business. Therefore, gender inclusive value chain strategies paying attention on women’s empowerment and ensuring gender equality leaving women no worse off were recommended.
Abstract: Gender is the socially and culturally constructed differences associated with being a man or a woman. For providing the opportunity of substantial economic and income growth in a country, the growing integration of gender issues in a value chain has part. The objective of this study was to analyse intra-household gender roles and empowerment of men...
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Synergy Between the Nigeria Banking Sector and the Nigerian Stock Exchange as Nigeria Economy Development Agents (2007-2016)
Rebecca Folake Bank-Ola,
Comfort Bosede Olopade,
Akinyele Akinwumi Idowu,
Nureni Adekunle Lawal
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2018
Pages:
68-76
Received:
14 September 2018
Accepted:
16 October 2018
Published:
16 November 2018
Abstract: The study is designed to examine the impact of banking and the stock exchange on the economic development of Nigeria and the interplay of relationship between these two major financial institutions as agents of economic development between 2006 and 2016. The independent variables were: Market Capitalization, Total Securities Listed (for the Nigerian Stock Exchange) and Total Bank Deposit and Domestic Credit to Private Sector by (for Banks). Gross Domestic Product, the barometer of economy development, is the dependent variable. These secondary data were sourced from National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria Stock Exchange publications and various issues of Central Bank Nigeria statistical bulletin. Data were analyzed using OLS, regression analysis. From the analysis performed, the development in Nigeria’s stock market has positive significant relationship with economic growth both in short and long run. The result dispelled the adeptness of Nigeria stock market to propel growth. GDP = -3614.57 + 0.288 MC + 4.67 TBC + e. Result of regression of each agent variables to the national GDP showed stock market to be dominant. This is rather surprising because if the financial performance indicators of the banks and stock exchange indices were something to go bye, they ought to be moving in the same direction and relative degree as development catalytic agents. Policy makers must urgently look into this.
Abstract: The study is designed to examine the impact of banking and the stock exchange on the economic development of Nigeria and the interplay of relationship between these two major financial institutions as agents of economic development between 2006 and 2016. The independent variables were: Market Capitalization, Total Securities Listed (for the Nigeria...
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Analysis of Economic Development Impact of Remittances on Recipient (Zimbabwe) and Remitting (South Africa) Countries
George Chirwa,
Abdulla Kader
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2018
Pages:
77-85
Received:
20 August 2018
Accepted:
29 October 2018
Published:
21 November 2018
Abstract: The importance of remittances to recipient economies has been greatly researched and there is a general consensus around their continued significance to these countries. However, their impact on the development of the receiving economies remains a subject of much debate among academics and policy makers. There is even greater dearth of academic research and debate around the impact of remittances on the sending economies. Unlike Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows, whose impact on the economies can be closely correlated to the economies’ outputs, remittances are micro-payments fragmented to multiple recipients, from multiple individual senders with different motives and for a multitude of uses. The researcher modified The Newtonian Gravity model first adapted by a Dutch economist, Timbergen as the first published proponent of the Newtonian gravity model application in analysis of financial flows. The model was applied to remittance flows between the sender and recipient countries, and assess the economic impact on the two economies. The key corridor of the research was between Zimbabwe and South Africa, which represents one of the biggest regional remittances flow corridors in Africa. The investigation revealed that remittances not only had a significant impact on recipient economies, but showed a negative correlation with Zimbabwe’s GDP in particular. Outflows of remittances proved to have very little impact on the sending country, South Africa. On further examination of the other countries studied, distance from the main remitting country had a negative correlation with remittances flows. Economic impairment of receiving countries increased their dependency on the remittances flows, and the funds were not directed at activities that directly contributed to GDP growth of recipient countries.
Abstract: The importance of remittances to recipient economies has been greatly researched and there is a general consensus around their continued significance to these countries. However, their impact on the development of the receiving economies remains a subject of much debate among academics and policy makers. There is even greater dearth of academic res...
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Generic Business Strategy as Driver of Competitiveness in Organizations: A Study of Selected Mobile Telecommunication Companies in Lagos, Nigeria
Onyeaghala Obioma Hyginus,
Odiba Onyejeche Maria
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2018
Pages:
86-96
Received:
8 October 2018
Accepted:
22 October 2018
Published:
27 November 2018
Abstract: The telecommunication industry has witnessed great increase in the level of competition since its privatization in Nigeria. A lot of works has centered on strategies to make business perform, especially those operating in competitive environments.. But not much has been done in the area of generic business strategy and organizational competitiveness. This study was aimed at examining if generic business strategy can serve as a driver of organizational competitiveness. The survey research design was adopted. Primary source of data was used with questionnaire designed in five points likert-scale, ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree. Cost leadership, product differentiation and focus strategy were the indicators measured by this study. Data was analyzed using frequency tables and simple percentage method. Formulated hypotheses were tested using the Karl Pearson Product Moment Correlation techniques. Cost leadership and organizational competitiveness were found to be positively correlated (at 0.718), the study discovered that product differentiation and organizational competitiveness has high positive relationship (at 0.922), the researcher found out that the relationship between focus strategy and organizational competitiveness is (at 0.80.7) probability value. It was recommended that mobile telecommunication services providers should continue to take a lead of cost in an industry to achieve leverage over competitors, since cost leadership influences organizational competitiveness. In addition, product differentiation among other generic business strategies should be adopted because competitive leverage of an organization over other competitors to a great extent depends on it. Lastly, focus strategy can help organizations to achieve competitive leverage over other organization in the same industry.
Abstract: The telecommunication industry has witnessed great increase in the level of competition since its privatization in Nigeria. A lot of works has centered on strategies to make business perform, especially those operating in competitive environments.. But not much has been done in the area of generic business strategy and organizational competitivenes...
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Analysis on the Imitation Effect of Investment Decisions in Internet Lending Market
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2018
Pages:
97-105
Received:
15 October 2018
Accepted:
30 October 2018
Published:
29 November 2018
Abstract: Nowadays, internet lending has become an important model that cannot be ignored in China financial lending market. Based on the individual transaction data of Chinese Paipaidai website, this paper examines the existence, rationality, decline and heterogeneity of the imitation effect of lenders’ investment decisions in China internet lending market. It is found that the potential lenders’ investment decisions imitation effect in the internet lending market is influenced by the previous cumulative bid times and the previous cumulative fundraising amount. With the decrease of information transmitted by the characteristics of imitation effect, the follow-up imitation effect of potential lenders will become more and more rational, and the imitative effect will gradually decrease and eventually disappear after reaching a certain peak value, furthermore, the lenders’ investment decision imitation effect of loan orders with poor information disclosure is more prominent than that of orders with perfect information disclosure. The research shows that the imitation effect of lenders’ investment decisions is mainly related to incomplete information disclosure in the internet loan market, and the paper’s outcome is important for us to exhaustively understand the risk accumulation caused by lenders’ investment decisions imitation effect and how to solve the information disclosure mechanism problem effectively.
Abstract: Nowadays, internet lending has become an important model that cannot be ignored in China financial lending market. Based on the individual transaction data of Chinese Paipaidai website, this paper examines the existence, rationality, decline and heterogeneity of the imitation effect of lenders’ investment decisions in China internet lending market....
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