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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Growth prospects"”.
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Investigating the growth prospects of SMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic in Polokwane Local Municipality
… perceived as the drivers of innovation, economic growth, and employment, especially in emerging economies such as South Africa. The challenges and growth prospects SMEs face are well documented, but in recent years, they had to contend with the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) impacting most …
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Three Essays on Equity Financing in the UK
… this puzzle by investigating the misvaluation, growth prospects, underpricing and use of proceeds of PP firms. Results show that firms engaging inPPs are undervalued, belong to undervalued sectors and have higher growth prospects than firms making public offers. These aspects and deep discounts …
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Sector growth and related index returns – an integration analysis of the group of seven
… run and long-term relationships between output growth and related index returns of the industrial and financial sectors of the G-7 economies. This study examines this relationship using quarterly data for a maximum time period of 22 years ranging from 1994(Q4) to 2017(Q4). The relationship …
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Derivatives and Economic Growth in South Africa: Lessons for Kenya
… Its aim is to enhance Kenya’s medium-term growth prospects as outlined in the capital markets master plan 2014- 2023. This study interrogates the effect of derivatives on economic growth and growth volatility, learning from the South African experience. The study also identifies some of the …
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A atuação nordestina na Rede Mercocidades
… the Mercosur region, which seeks to promote the growth of municipalities and generate the dissemination of experiences and best practices for its members. This research, then, aims to understand how the northeastern Mercocities were inserted in this network, its activities and what are the growth …
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An assessment of the relationship between Global Competitiveness Index scores and national GDP per capita growth rates
… competitiveness, how this translates to economic growth prospects is not well understood, and a universally accepted economic growth model continues to elude macroeconomists. The research seeks to understand whether a more detailed assessment of the Global Competitiveness Index‟s twelve …
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The Determinants and Economic Effects of Defence Spending: The Case of Rwanda, 1973-2020
… that a country's defence burden has on its growth prospects. However, the results remain inconclusive. Fewer studies consider the determinants of a government's defence spending decision, and many of these studies restrict their analysis to groups of countries, thus, failing to capture …
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Micro wholesaling businesses involved in the sector of confectionary products - strategies of survival and growth
… identify and implement suitable survival and growth strategies in order to cope with increasing competition in a market characterized by a large expansion of supermarkets and chain stores?". The factors that triggered research are related to the researcher's avocation with the sector of …
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Investigating the factors that constrain growth of funded SMMEs in KwaZulu Natal Province: a case study of Ithala Development Finance Corporation
… of funding struggled to attain sustainable growth and many of them failed, something which is puzzling to authorities and academics alike. This study sought to investigate possible causes of such failures through investigating a sample of 300 SMMEs that had received agency funding and …
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Consumption and saving pattern of micro small and medium enterprises operators: A case of Ubungo bus terminal in Dar es Salaam
… Tanzania as they lack capacity to sustain their growth prospects. Some of these measures include creation and nurturing of MSMEs entrepreneurship trainin.g, improvement of financial systems, establishing well functioning marketing systems for MSMEs to utilize both local and international …
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SMME access to finance in South Africa
… vehicles and how this impacted on their growth prospects. The results from case studies show pervasive lack of access to finance by the SMMEs and that business start-ups and cash flows are financed mainly from savings and, to a lesser extent, from simple instruments, such as bank …
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Determinants of life insurance consumption: Evidence from Zambia
… of financial sector development. Life insurance growth prospects in the country remain optimistic on the back of a growing population and increasing urbanisation. This study examined the impact of selected macroeconomic variables, namely income, inflation and financial development on life …
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The intersection of geopolitics and technological innovations: implications for the Central-European region
… of geopolitics and innovation, such as China’s growth prospects in the Fourth Industrial Revolution; the phenomenon of disinformation warfare aided by novel technologies in the Central European region; and the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions disrupting industries, and …
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The Finance-Growth Nexus in South Africa
The finance-growth nexus remains a divisive topic within macroeconomic discourse. Despite the plethora of studies devoted to understanding the causal relationships, there is still vast disagreement. This study comprehensively examines the relationship between economic growth, financial development …
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Strategic Analysis Identifying Opportunities for Exporting Montana's Wood Products to China
… import market opportunities to highlight strong growth prospects for the Montana wood products industry. It was found that the Montana’s log supply strengths primarily exist in the Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and lodgepole pine species, with the majority of the volume existing in small size …
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Strategic Analysis Identifying Opportunities for Exporting Montana's Wood Products to China
… import market opportunities to highlight strong growth prospects for the Montana wood products industry. It was found that the Montana’s log supply strengths primarily exist in the Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and lodgepole pine species, with the majority of the volume existing in small size …
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Hand in hand:privatising five star hotels in Egypt through the stock market will enhance the latter's role as well as set an example of the benefits that could be gained from privatisation
… which they operate i.e. tourism sector, has high growth prospects and is of an international nature. Therefore it is anticipated that privatisation of five star hotels can attract a lot of investors because of the relatively high returns. This in turn will help activate and popularize the capital …
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Essays on financial development and economic performance
… methods. Also, it extends the previous finance-growth literature by examining the role of democracy in the process. Three inter-related studies form the work undertaken. Chapter 2: In the first of these the impact of financial development on growth is investigated for the case of China using a …
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COVID-19 and post COVID-19 financing of MSMEs: a case of Johannesburg
… are widely accepted as the backbone of economic growth and contribute towards job creation and poverty alleviation. The role that MSMEs can play is amplified in South Africa, given the poor performance of the economy, high levels of inequality and unemployment. The government has instituted …
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Evaluation der Lehre
… the aspect of the total result and thus its growth prospects concerning further projects in this direction, may be however the topic of a resuming work.
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