IOSR-JEF   Volume-11 ~ Issue-3 ~ May – June 2020

Abstract: This paper discusses the relevance of efficient management of on-line education portal of student's records in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria. The objective to develop a portal that would incorporate online registration, profile creation, student's clearance and payment among others. It highlighted the types of records created, method of distribution, storage retrieval, access and their problems. A descriptive research design was adopted in the study. Research questions were posed to guide the study. It is expected to reduce the paper works and automate the record generation process in the tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Data collected were analyzed using ANOVA. The result aims to provide solution to inefficiency and at the same time maintain information accuracy and ease of access to students, lecturers, parents, Bursary units and management on-line records in tertiary institutions.

Key Words: Portal, Electronic Registration, Efficiency, Productivity

Abstract: The study investigated the effect of foreign earnings on economic growth in Nigeria from 1981 to 2018, by adopting ex-post facto research design. It utilized multiple regression analyses in which the Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag model was the main method of analysis. The variables analyzed in the investigation include real non-oil exports, real oil exports, real foreign remittances, real FDI, real money supply, real private domestic investment, and real GDP. The results indicated that real oil exports had a positive and significant contribution to real GDP in the short-run, and a positive and insignificant influence on real GDP in the long-run. It also showed that real non-oil.......

Keywords: Capital Market, Economic Growth, Cointegration Test, Vector Error Correction Model

Abstract: This paper had as main research objective toexamine the implications of healthcare utilisation for catastrophic health expenditure in Cameroon. Specifically, it (1) evaluated the incidence and intensity of catastrophic health payments in Cameroon; (2) examined whether users of particular healthcare facility are more prone to catastrophic health spending than others; and (3) assessed other factors, excepting the choice of healthcare utilization, that have important bearings on catastrophic health expenditure in Cameroon. Employing data from the most recent Cameroon Household Consumption Survey (CHCS IV), the paper estimated the catastrophic head count, overshoot, and mean positive overshoot to qualify the incidence and intensity of catastrophic health.......

Abstract: The World Bank (WB) environmental and social safeguard policies are the foundation stone of the Banks' support to sustainable infrastructure development and poverty reduction in Indian perspectives. The safeguards intend at avoiding and mitigating undue community damage and their environment in all the development process. They provide guiding principles for the bank and borrowers in the identification, preparation, and execution of programs and projects. Compliance with the safeguards by the bank and the borrower is one of the challenges of their effective implementation.......

Keywords: Environmental and Social Safeguard Policy, World Bank, Madhya Pradesh, Water supply, Sewerage network.

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of political factors on financial development using the dynamic panel data of 60 countries during 2008- 2016. The empirical results show that development in financial system positively responds to the variation of political variables. In fact, the political factors alongside their positive and direct effect on financial activities could affect financial system through the other determinants. All the political variables such as political competition, democracy, durability, Political stability, freedom and political rights proved that have effect on financial development alone and through the other determinants of financial development like economic institution, trade openness and financial openness. Since the response of financial system to the variation of political variables differed, financial system in countries with different political structure had a different reaction to the policies that were implemented in order to promote financial system. This could be a possible reason that why financial system in different countries has different reactions to the implemented policies

Keywords: Financial Development, Political Factors, Economic Growth, System GMM

Abstract: In the economic literature, the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth remains a debatable phenomenon among policy makers. Undeniably, foreign direct investment havebeen regarded as an engine of economic growth in an increasingly globalised world economy, but it contributions to growth may strongly depend on the circumstances surrounding the recipient country including its development status. In a developing nation like the Nigerian economy, foreign direct investment is expected to play a vital role in propelling aggregate national output towards sustainable growth. In lieu of that, this study examines the impact of foreign direct investment and total export on economic growth in Nigeria using annual time series data covering a sample period.......

Keywords: Foreign direct investment, Export, Economic growth, Ordinary least square, Cointegration, Granger causality.