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Insecurity and Economic Development in Nigeria
Get PDFThe continuous rise in Insecurity and deterioration in the economic development in Nigeria call for a concern among researchers and policy makers over the years. However, these two hydra-headed problems still remain the greatest challenges facing nations all over the world. This study therefore, examines the implication of insecurity on economic development in Nigeria. With the use of trend analysis, descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation of failed state index, human development index and Legatum’s prosperity index, the study reveal an inverse relationship between insecurity and economic development in the country. to ensure economic development in Nigeria therefore, the study recommends various measures of curbing insecurity including preventive community policing, human development centered growth perspective, equitable distribution of resources as well as channeling of resources to frontline sectors of the economy among others. Keywords: Insecurity, economic development, failed state index, prosperity inde
LENDING RATE AND MANUFACTURING SECTOR GROWTH IN NIGERIA
Get PDFThis study examined the impact of lending rate on the growth of manufacturing sector in Nigeria from 1986 to 2020. The Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimation technique was employed for achieving the objectives of the study. The OLS analysis showed that there exists a positive and insignificant impact of lending rate on the growth of the manufacturing sector in Nigeria, indicating that lending rate does not impede the activities and the performances of the Nigerian manufacturing sector. It also revealed that there exists a negative and insignificant impact of inflation rate on the growth of the manufacturing sector in Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommended that Central Bank of Nigeria through its monetary policy should ensure that interest rate deregulation is frequently monitored and primarily tailored towards ensuring that the prevailing market lending rate provides opportunity for improved performance of the manufacturing sector, government should provide the essential and effective infrastructure facilities especially electricity supply, as the high cost of these infrastructural expenditure incurred by banks is passed on to borrowers and manufacturers through interest rate, among others were proffered
Relative Impact of Bank Credit on Manufacturing Sector in Nigeria
No full textThe study examined the relative impact of bank credit on manufacturing sector in Nigeria from 1981 to 2018. The techniques adopted in the study include; ordinary least square (OLS) method, Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) unit root test, Johansen cointegration test and error correction mechanism (ECM) technique. The data used for the analysis is secondary source of data and the model adopted in the work is a linear regression model. The findings showed that lending rate, credit to private sectors, and loans and advances to manufacturing sector contributed positively to the manufacturing sector output with the exception of inflation rate. Therefore, the study recommends that government should, through the Central Bank of Nigeria, pursue policies that lower interest rate (cost of capital) and reduce inflation on one hand and increase money supply as well as loans and advances to the investors in order to increase the output of the manufacturing sector which is capable of stimulating economic growth.  
THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY ON CASSAVA PRODUCTIVITY IN KOGI STATE OF NIGERIA
Get PDFThis paper assessed the economic impact of improved agricultural technologies on cassava productivity in Kogi State, Nigeria. The results are drawn from a household survey covering the agricultural season of 2009/2010. The data obtained from interview schedule was subjected to descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. Descriptive statistics for this study include frequency, percentages and means. The hypothesis was tested using chi- square. The result shows that 79.33% of the respondents adopt the use of improved variety within the period under study. The analysis done on the revenue of the respondents before and after the adoption of the improved agricultural technology shows that revenue of farmers after the adoption of innovations are better off than revenue generated before adoption by N27,750 on the average per farmer. This result shows that the impact of improved agricultural technologies on cassava productivity is positive. Additionally, the results attest to the importance of increasing agricultural productivity in tandem with improvements on the adoption and use of improved agricultural technologies and its availability to the reach of farmers with the farmers’ ability to store food. This findings is consistence with Idachaba and Ayoola, (1995) who observed that improved agricultural helped in increasing agricultural productivity
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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