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Budget Deficit, Budget Reform Index and Macroeconomic Performance in Nigeria
Get PDFThis study examines the relationship between budget deficit, budget reform index and macroeconomic performance in Nigeria between 1981 and 2023. The study adopts the Budget Reform Index (BRI) measure as a proxy for budget reform as against previous work that adopts dummy variable as a measure for BRI. The budget reform index is a more rigorous, comprehensive and quantitative measure; giving credence to this work and value addition. Therefore, the novelty of this work is the introduction of Budget Reform Index which previous studies ignored. The study employed the Auto regressive distributed lag model (ARDL) method to analyze the time series data. The reason for adopting the ARDL is to test for both short run and long run parameters of the models. Findings from the ARDL analysis showed that the impacts of budget deficit on output and employment are positive and significant in the short run and long run periods. In the short run budget deficit increases outputs and employments by 0.003 and 0.0001 per cents respectively while in the long run it raises outputs and employment by 0.096 and 0.008 per cents respectively. Similarly, in the short run, budget reform index increases outputs and employments by 0.032 and 0.004 per cents respectively whereas in the long run it increases outputs and employment by 1.096 and 0.097 per cent respectively.
Further findings indicated positive and insignificant impacts of budget deficit on current account balance (balance of payments) in both short run and long run. The short run and long run effects of budget reform index is also consistently positive and statistically insignificant. While budget deficit raises the balance of payment position by about 0.62 per cent in the short run, it increases it by about 1.1 per cent in the long run. On the other hand, the fiscal reform index raises the balance of payment position by about 3.55 per cent in the short run and increases it by about 6.19 per cent in the long run but the effect was insignificant in both the short and long run periods. The study recommends that budget reform policies should contain quantifiable expectations/benchmarks to facilitate proper monitoring and evaluation of budget performance. Furthermore, the study calls for fiscal policy and budget administration that encourages improvement in the country’s balance of payments position, etc
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
Financial Inclusion and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises in Cross River State, Nigeria
Get PDFRecently, financial inclusion has assumed greater level of importance due to its perceived importance as a driver of economic growth. Giving access to hundreds of millions of people especially those in the small and medium scale enterprises sub-sector who are presently excluded from financial services would provide the possibilities for the creation of a large depository of savings, investible funds, income, hence poverty reduction. This study investigates the influence of financial inclusion on growth of small and medium enterprises in Cross River State. The study conducted a cross sectional survey of small and medium scale businesses in Calabar Metropolis using purposive sampling technique. The population of the study was one thousand two hundred and ninety-four (1294) SMEs in the state and a sample size of 306 was obtained for the study. The data obtained were analyzed using the Pearson Correlation technique and the results of the analysis revealed that financial inclusion in terms of bank loans and advances, access to ATM and internet banking have statistically significant correlation with growth of small and medium scale enterprises in Cross River State. Hence, the policy implication of the study is that banks should reduce their lending rate in order to induce many SMEs operators to access bank loans for their businesses. Furthermore, commercial banks and microfinance institutions should ensure that more bank branches are established so as to enhance bank penetration whereby many SMEs operators can have access to ATM machines to transact their businesses
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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