ABSTRACT In this paper, an empirical analysis is used to compare the effects of oil price shock and exchange rate volatility on the economic growth of Nigeria and Kenya. Firstly, a LA-VAR model is applied to investigate whether the oil price shock and exchange rate volatility have the Granger Causality to economic growth of both Nigeria and Kenya. Secondly, we apply a VAR model with co-integration technique to examine how GDP Growth of Nigeria and Kenya are affected by changes in oil prices...
ABSTRACT Out-of-pocket expenditure at point of seeking healthcare services is the major means of financing healthcare in Nigeria, among other financing mechanisms. This is because most households (over 95%) are excluded from the financial risk protection of health insurance. The decision to utilize health services by households implies the decision to pay for them. This has resulted into a situation where households have to sale assets, borrow money or sometimes, forgo the consumption of oth...
ABSTRACT The study examines the effect of globalization on the Nigerian financial sector. It is also aimed at ascertaining the impact of globalization on the Nigerian commercial banks and the stock exchange. Assets of the Nigerian financial sector and commercial banks were used as performance indicators of the Nigerian financial sector and the commercial banks. Market capitalization was used as performance indicator of the Nigerian stock exchange. The data used are Nigerian yearly data from ...
ABSTRACT This study stems the depletion of Nigeria’s Reserves in recent times and the possible implications of this fluctuation of the Foreign Exchange Reserves on the macroeconomic stability of Nigeria in tandem with factors like holding of Reserves in excess and the desirability or otherwise of holding Reserves as embedded in the nation’s Reserve Management Strategy. The study used quarterly data ranging from the first quarter of 1981 to the first quarter of 2015. A Reserve demand...
ABSTRACT It is an undeniable fact that trade has been facilitating growth and development of countries across the world. This underscores the recent upsurge in establishing multilateral trade relationship between Nigeria and other countries especially, the G8 member countries. While these realities are still contestable in terms of the potential benefits of the trade linkage that Nigeria stands to gain, the trajectory of the influx of export to Nigeria from the latter countries calls fo...
ABSTRACT Recent research emphasizes adopting business models that not only improve market linkages but also enable inclusion of smallholder farmers in high value markets along the value chains. While evidence points to positive impact of business models choice, studies seldom exploit the extent of their impact on smallholder gross income. Besides, socioeconomic and institutional factors associated with such choice of the models are discussed incoherently, hence less understood. The objectives...
ABSTRACT The dairy industry in Kenya has faced and continues to face challenges in the inefficiency of linkages among supply chain actors. Despite this, the industry still plays an important nutrition and economic role in the lives of many people ranging from farmers to milk hawkers, consumers and processors. Since liberalization of the sector in 1992, a vast array of dairy marketing channels has sprung up, presenting smallholder farmers with multiple marketing channel options. Any choice of ...
ABSTRACT Ethiopia’s agricultural sector accounts to 40 percent of national Gross Domestic Product. This shows that the sector is important in improving the livelihoods of the bulk of the population. Despite its importance, the agricultural sector in Ethiopia is characterized by low productivity. To improve this and overall economic growth, the Ethiopian government has focused on promotion of organic fertilizer use. However, adoption of organic fertilizer remains low in most parts of Ethiopi...
ABSTRACT Malaria incidence threatens human existence and reduces economic prospects in countries with high prevalence. Physical challenges caused by malaria can be a limitation to employment probability in the labour market. The co-existence of malaria with high rate of poverty in Nigeria has implications on income loss. While the direct (treatment) and indirect (productivity loss) cost burden of malaria in relation to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been examined in Nigeria, its effects ...
Introduction This study explores the effect of oil price shocks on Ugandan economy. In studying the effect of oil price shocks on Ugandan economy, the movement of Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Inflation, Unemployment and Net Official Development Assistance for Uganda as a result of world oil price shocks will be investigated. It will further analyse the determinants of oil imports in Uganda. The proposal is arranged into three chapters as follows: Chapter one is the introduction with te...
An overview of the study This PhD thesis explores the topic of employability of new graduates. Specifically, it examines the influence of entrepreneurship education and engagement in Employability Skills Development Programme (ESDP) activities and their role in enhancing the employability skills and competencies of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) graduates. Using triangulation, the thesis addresses the following questions: a) Do HEIs and particularly schools of education facilitate the ...
ABSTRACT Oil Resource Abundance (ORA) has dominated the Nigerian revenue since the 1970s, contributing over 70.0%. Empirical literature have focused on the effects of ORA on aggregate macroeconomic variables (annual average growth in export to import price ratio, agricultural output growth rate, manufacturing output growth rate, public consumption, exchange rate and trade openness), while little attention has been devoted to the multi-sectoral dimension of the effects. This study, therefore,...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to analyse the commercial egg value chain in Ilala Municipal Council. Specific objectives were (a) To identify the marketing and distribution channels for commercial eggs and relationship among marketing agents (b) To determine the profit margin accrued by different actors in the commercial egg value chain (c) To identify factors that influence profitability for producers in the chain; and (d) To determine the marketing efficiency for commercial egg value cha...
ABSTRACT Beans production and consumption is common and form an important historical food and nutrition security in many parts of the world. In Tanzania, the availability of beans ensures food security because it mitigates or reduces hidden hunger since some families consider it as a dependable and complete meal during periods of food shortage. Due to its importance, the inquiry into production and consumption patterns is paramount. This paper contributes some insights in the consumption sid...
ABSTRACT The effects of the customs union are ambiguous and depend on different factors. The theoretical ambiguities raise a need for empirical studies to generate information for a particular case. This study looks on the effect of EAC-CET for selected agro-food sensitive products of Burundi’s trade, welfare and tariff revenue using the partial equilibrium model; specifically, the SMART model at HS-6 level. The analysis makes use of trade data of 2010-2016 from WITS database, and the EAC-C...