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CURRENCY DEVALUATION, STOCK MARKET RETURNS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA COUNTRIES
Get PDFAchieving sustainable growth in the world economies is one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and also one of the macroeconomic goals targeting Sub-Saharan Africa. As the region aimed to attain growth and development, policy toward currency devaluation and stock market returns became crucial. Hence, this study examined the relationship between currency devaluation, stock market returns and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries from 2003 to 2023 within the framework of the Mundell-Fleming model. Using panel error components general least squares (PEGLS) and the Dumitrescu-Hurlin panel Granger causality test econometric techniques, findings indicated that currency devaluation and stock market returns are positive and statistically significant to promote the economies of SSA countries. Findings further showed that there is unidirectional causality between balance of payment and currency devaluation, running from balance of payment and not vice versa. The research recommends policies that gear towards improved stock market performances. Also, there is a need for strategic policy that promotes currency devaluation in the SSA region
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
INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF MIGRANT REMITTANCES AND GROSS FIXED CAPITAL FORMATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA
Get PDFThe previous studies in the relationship between inflows of migrant remittances, gross fixed capital formation, and economic growth in the literature have increased the mixed empirical outcomes in the field of economics. However, very little attention has been given to the interactive effect of migrant remittances and gross fixed capital formation on economic growth, especially in the case of Nigeria. As such, this study mainly examined the long-run interactive effect of migrant remittances and gross fixed capital formation on the economic growth in Nigeria over the period of 1990 to 2023 in a multivariate framework. To avoid spurious results, the study tested the stationarity properties of the variables with the Autoregressive Dickey Fuller (ADF) and Phillips Perron (PP) methods that allow for more complex models in the regression equation. Next, the Autoregressive Distributed Lags Model (ARDL) bounds co-integration test was used to examine the extent of the long-run relationship among the variables used in the study. Also, the econometric technique of Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) was used to investigate the coefficients of the explanatory variables on economic growth. Findings show that both migrant remittances and gross fixed capital formation promote the economic growth of Nigeria. JEL: O40, O49, F30 Article visualizations
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
Impact of Economic Globalization on Human Capital: Evidence from Nigerian Economy
Get PDFInvestment in human capital in relation to global world is to achieve an optimum return in terms of a gainful employment, productivity and high standard of living. This paper uses autoregressive distributed lag model to determine the cointegration, long run and short run elasticities among human capital, economic growth, economic globalization and foreign direct investment (FDI), for the period 1980-2011. The empirical results reveal that there is a long run relationship among the variables tested in this study. Also, economic growth and FDI show a positive impact on human capital and economic globalization indicates a negative impact on human capital in Nigeria
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