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...
ABSTRACT Organizational culture is an idea in the field of Organizational studies and management which describes the psychology, attitudes, experiences, beliefs and values (personal and cultural values) of an organization. It has been defined as ~the specific collection of values and norms that are shared by people and groups in an organization and that control the way they interact with each other and with stakeholders outside the organization. The study is aimed at investigating the relatio...
ABSTRACT Low volume of trade activity at the Uganda Securities Exchange is strongly evidenced by the lack of much attention by the monetary authorities in Uganda. However, this study sought to determine the effect of monetary policy on stock market returns in Uganda using time series data for the period July 2011-December 2017. Data was obtained from the Uganda Securities Exchange, the Bank of Uganda and the Uganda Bureau of Statistics reports. The collected data were analyzed using Excel 201...
ABSTRACT The research was conducted at Kenya Ports Authority Company which is situated along the Kilindini road in Mombasa. The general objective of the study was to establish the relationship of ethical practices and financial management on organizational performance. The other objectives of the research were to find the roles ethical practices play in financial management and also to come up with recommendations for effective ethical practices under the financial management on organizationa...