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Finance for Development and Developing Countries: The Preconditions Revisited
Get PDFIncreasing the rate of inputs- private foreign direct investments to accelerate development in LDCs or developing countries has not been attained over the years. The reason is that more poverty stares the faces of the people in these countries. This is the problem. The literature has said that accelerating development through the rate of inputs has preconditions of friendly environment, sound macroeconomic policies, absorptive capacity, competitiveness of the market, capital accumulation, technology assistance, etc, for private investment to strive. But the situation has not changed much. Do we not need to revisit the preconditions? Consider the non-economic, i.e., personality traits, culture and governance, as well as the economic, i.e.. privatization, globalization, debt overhang, multinationals/SMES and foreign exchange rate realignment. Perhaps, these may make the difference for the attainment of the development goal. After the introduction, literature review and the method employed—analytical, the findings, conclusion and recommendations were made that the personality trait culture and implementation of some macro-economic policies may push the hesitant capital to the LDCs
Factors Affecting Voting Behavior and Voting Patterns in Zimbabwe\u27s 2008 Harmonized Elections
Get PDFElections in Zimbabwe in 2008 reflected a changing behavior and pattern that has existed since her attainment of independence in 1980. History has it that the ruling ZANU PF has always had a sweet and easy victory over the opposition. The 2008 elections reflected a different picture. The 2008 elections were unique not only in as far as results are concerned but also in as far as the indirect and direct players\u27 contributions. The uniqueness was manifested in behavior of the voters and the parties themselves. There were many political contesters and many offices up for grabs at once. These were the first elections that failed to produce an outright winner for the office of president and led for the first time to a runoff since independence. A number of questions have arisen as to the changes in voting patterns. The paper therefore seeks to analyze the factors beneath the manifestation of the trend changes
Reinventing E-Governance Policy in Local Governments in Southern Nigeria
Get PDFThis paper examines the extent to which electronic governance policy has contributed to more efficient service delivery in local governments in southern Nigeria. It also explores how e-governance practices has improved the relationship between citizens and local governments in southern Nigeria. It argues that despite the appropriation of funds for the purchase of computers and other electronic equipment in many local governments in the past three decades, the delivery of services in almost all the local governments under study has not improved. The paper uses data derived from questionnaire survey administered to local government staff in southern Nigeria. Two thousand and eight hundred (2,800) questionnaires were administered and a total of 1,876 (67percent) questionnaires were completed and returned by the respondents. Three hundred (300) local government staff and stakeholders were also interviewed. The secondary data consisted of the review of related government reports, academic and professional journals. Data were analyzed to determine the positive impact of e-governance in local governments in southern Nigeria. The conceptual framework is based on stakeholders’ theory, and an integrated model that combines the theory of planned behavior and technology-organization-environment model for sustainable solution. The findings suggest that there is a negative correlation between the e-governance initiatives and local government service delivery in local governments in southern Nigeria. Some challenges preventing the adoption of proactive e-governance practices were identified and appropriate recommendations offered
Big Data as Potential Tool for Success in Developing Countries
Get PDFBig data and the computer technology to analyze it are said to be one of the top 10 revolutions in the coming decade. While the developed world is making strides in the use of big data for decision making purposes, the Low-income countries (LIC) or poor countries and some medium-income countries (MIC) or developing countries are lacking behind in their collection and use of digital data to aid decision making. This is especially the case with many businesses and government agencies that have the potential to benefit in their policy designs and implementations from big data. The purpose of this article is to present the importance of big data and how governmental agencies and companies in developing nations may benefit from its use. The study reviews the obstacles to technology development in developing countries and presents two success stories in third-world context; KickStart International and the Dangote Group that use data analytics tools to solve challenging problems in their communities. The study concludes that citizen-centric policy making could rely on data collected from different sectors such as healthcare, finance, education, security, and others, analyze those details faster with advanced big data analytics tools and leverage the results to deliver more beneficial policies for the society. Governments in third world need to invest and enable programs that promote the use of data for decision making
Urban Fail: The Need for a Capital-Focused Narrative in Federal Urban Economic Policy
Get PDFThis article contains a foreword by Susan Elliott about the presentation of the Susan Newhart Elliott Award for Excellence in Legal Scholarship to author Michael R. Turner and editor Jessica K. Turner
Laboratory and Data Preview Animations
No full textContains video animations for each ARSSS laboratory experiment previews for each polarimetric data file in animated GIF format for the Model Desert Terrain Monochromatic DoT dataset
Central Mall and Chaminade Statue
No full textView of the Central Mall and a statue by Joseph Aspell of Father William Joseph Chaminade, a founder of the Society of Mary. View is from the plaza outside the south entrance to Kennedy union. Marycrest Hall is in the background.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/mktg_images/1076/thumbnail.jp
Baujan Field Grandstands, St. Joseph Hall, and Humanities Building
No full textAerial view is of the southern edge of Baujan Field, UD\u27s soccer stadium, and its team benches and spectator seats at midfield. St. Mary\u27s Hall (left), St. Joseph Hall (center) and the Jesse Philips Humanities Center (right) appear in the background.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/mktg_images/1077/thumbnail.jp