scholarly journals The Relationship Between Cote D'ivoire's Political Situation And Burkina Faso's Maritime Transit Cargo Throughput That Passed Through Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
Augustine Kwabena Tufuor ◽  
Mumuni Ishawu ◽  
Thomas Akrofi ◽  
Bernice Adu-Bekoe
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
Major Stakeholder ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
World Governance Indicators ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Cargo Throughput ◽  
In Transit

Ghana rose from an insignificant position in 1997/8 to become the topmost maritime transit corridor for landlocked countries in West Africa and particularly for Burkina Faso around 2006. Since then, Ghana's transit corridor has, generally, been recording a declining trend in the yearly percentage throughput of Burkina Faso's maritime transit cargo that is transported along it. Popular opinion in the transit business in West Africa suggests a negative relationship between the level of Ce d'Ivoire's political stability and Burkina Faso's maritime transit cargo throughput that is transported along Ghana's transit corridor. This work, using data drawn from 1998, 2000 and 2002-2014 investigated the empirical veracity of such an opinion. Data were sourced from World Governance Indicators and also through questionnaires that were administered to a sample drawn from five major stakeholder official institutions involved in transit trade in Ghana. The study found a significant negative relationship between Ce d'Ivoire's political stability rank and Burkina Faso's maritime transit cargo throughput that was transported through Ghana's corridor over the specified period. The study, among others, recommends a reduction in the number of transit check points and the associated delays and bribery along Ghana's road corridor so as to make it more efficient and competitive in West Africa. Keywords: Land-locked country; transit; cargo; throughput; corridor; and 'transitor'

scholarly journals Impact of Governance on Financial Development: evidence from West Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Yahaya Ibrahim Abubakar ◽  
Rafiu Ayobanji Mustapha ◽  
Emmanuel Shola Ajiboye
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
Domestic Credit ◽  
World Governance Indicators ◽  
And Control

The study explores the impacts of governance on financial development in West African countries.Data for the study were obtained from the World Bank Database covering the period from 2006-2017. The variables for governance comprises of the six world governance indicators while financial development was represented by ratio of bank deposit to GDP and domestic credit to private sector. The control variables included in the model are interest rate, inflation, GDP per capita and trade openness. The findings from the study revealed that political stability and absence of violence, and regulatory quality have significant effects on both proxies of financial development. Also, voice and accountability, trade openness and interest rate show significances on the ratio bank deposit to GDP while government effectiveness (negative), rule of law, and control of corruption show significances on domestic credit to private sector. Thus, improving the quality of governance through strengthening legal and institutional frameworks, enforcement of standards and empowering of supervisory agencies, introducing an efficient regulatory environment to facilitate financial inclusion will play significant roles in the pace of financial development in the West Africa region. Keywords: Governance, Financial Development and West Africa

Workplace disability and job satisfaction in Britain: A co-worker test?

2021 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2110142
Author(s):  
Getinet Astatike Haile
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Seemingly Unrelated Regression ◽  
Unrelated Regression ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
Using Data

The article examines the link between workplace disability (WD) and workplace job satisfaction (JS) using data from WERS2011. Controlling for a rich set of workplace characteristics including organisational culture, the study finds a significant negative relationship between JS and the share of disabled respondents within workplaces. Notably, Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR)-based analysis distinguishing between disabled and non-disabled respondents reveals that the negative relationship found is specific to non-disabled respondents. Moreover, disability equality policies are found to be significantly positively related with disabled respondents’ JS while they are negatively related with the JS of their non-disabled counterparts. The article ponders if there is a co-worker aspect to the WD–JS link and whether HR policies may need to take heed of co-worker dynamics in this respect.

scholarly journals The relationship between inter-organizational trust and performance

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Fiala ◽  
Martin Prokop ◽  
Iva Živělová
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Organizational Trust ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Fit Indices ◽  
Supplier Performance ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
Model Fit Indices ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

The article deals with an investigation of the relationship between inter-organizational trust and performance. Using data obtained in a questionnaire survey in 373 organizations with more than 20 employees with their seat in the Czech Republic, we found the relationship between inter-organizational trust and supplier performance, mediated by the level of conflict. Also, the statistically significant negative relationship between inter-organizational trust and costs of negotiation and the statistically significant positive relationship between supplier performance and perceived performance were confirmed. The hypothesis on the statistically significant relationship between inter-organizational trust and negotiating costs was not confirmed. The structural equation modelling technique was used in the calculations. The calculated model fit indices (CFI, NFI, NNFI) with values over 0.9 demonstrate a very good quality of the model.

scholarly journals Is Religion a Determinant of Financial Development?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Amissah ◽  
Katarzyna Świerczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Financial Development ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractStudies on the determinants of financial development have been silent on the role of religion. Growing evidence in the literature about how financial development positively affects economic growth and development highlights a greater interest in understanding the determinants of financial development. Despite the growing interest in this direction, less focus has been given to the role of religion in financial development. Using data from the World Values Survey, this study explores the relationship between finance and religion. In this study, finance is modelled through different measures of financial development and religion is represented by the intensity of religiosity. Results showed that on average there is a significant negative relationship. Subsequent analysis showed that as countries become financially developed, this negative relationship becomes insignificant. The quantile regression technique was employed to capture the nature of the relationship at different levels. The analysis showed that as countries become financially developed, the negative relationship becomes insignificant to financial development. These results account for some of the differences in the level of financial development between developed and developing countries where the latter tend to be more religious than the former.

scholarly journals On the Relationship Between the Marriage Squeeze and the Quality of Life of Rural Men in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 702-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueyan Yang ◽  
Shuzhuo Li ◽  
Isabelle Attané ◽  
Marcus W. Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Marriage Market ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Marriage Squeeze ◽  
Female Partners ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

China is facing a male marriage squeeze, as there are more men in the marriage market than potential female partners. As a consequence, some men may fail to ever marry. However, while some studies have suggested that most unmarried men affected by the marriage squeeze in rural China feel a sense of failure, the quality of life of the men who remain unmarried against their will remains largely unexplored. Using data collected in rural Hanbin district of Ankang City (Shaanxi, China), this study analyzes the relationship between the marriage squeeze and the quality of life among rural men. Descriptive analyses indicate that the quality of life of unmarried men aged 28 years and older tends to be worse than for both younger unmarried men and married men. Also, the quality of life of men who perceive the marriage squeeze appears to be worse than that of those who do not. Regression analyses reveal that the perceived marriage squeeze and age independently have a significant negative relationship with the quality of life of rural men.

scholarly journals International reserves and governance: a comparative study for Colombia

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-31
Author(s):  
Jorge Mario Ortega
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Panel Cointegration ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Risk Indicators ◽  
International Reserves ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
Cointegration Tests ◽  
World Governance Indicators ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the relationship between the governance and the demand for international reserves in Emerging Economies (EE). The Database World Governance Indicators Project (Project WGI) available for the period 2002-2013 is employed. The main goal in this research is to examine the possible relationship between risk indicators and political stability, the strength of democratic institutions and legal regime to the accumulation of reserves in the EE in order to discern the matter to the Colombian case. Using panel data for 14 Emerging economies, it became clear how these variables of governance, the traditional determinants of the demand for international reserves and their level interrelate. The panel cointegration tests show the relationship between the behavior of political stability, strengthening of the institutions with the accumulation of international reserves of Colombia and other Emerging economies. The institutional characteristics such as corruption, political stability and violence can affect accumulation of reserves through the perception of uncertainty. The results suggest that in order to reduce the need to accumulate higher levels of reserves, Colombia could continue institutional strengthening so as to demand lower levels of reserves for precautionary reasons.

scholarly journals Does Conditionality on Borrowing Help?

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Prince Eyi-Mensah
Keyword(s):  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Debt Burden ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries ◽  
Dynamic Panel Regression ◽  
World Governance Indicators ◽  
Using Data ◽  
External Development

<p>Borrowers of international financial institutions (IFIs) have both interest and conditionality to deal with. Using data from the World Governance Indicators (WGI), we investigated the influence of conditionality on borrowers. By applying a (RED) dynamic panel regression method, we found compelling evidence, which supports our intuition that conditionality increases the debt burden of borrowing countries. However, this was not the case for all the indebted countries. Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) had some of their external commitments reduced when they agreed to implement some sets of conditionality. In light of these findings, we posit that the advocated structural reforms which is used, as a justification for prescribing conditionality does not materialize as planned. It however, erodes the capacity of borrower countries toward their debt servicing obligations. A direct consequence is their (RED) incessant need for external development assistance. Results of the study also proved robust.</p>

Does Good Governance Matter more for Energy Investment? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. i16-i40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amadou N R Sy ◽  
Mariama Sow
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Energy Investment ◽  
Chinese Investment ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
Resource Rents ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
World Governance Indicators

Abstract This paper examines the relationship between three global priorities: access to energy, good governance, and financing for development. Using the World Governance Indicators (WGI), it finds that while governance matters for raising domestic revenues, its effect on external financing sources is mixed. Good governance, except for political stability, does not appear to matter much for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to oil exporting countries but is positively associated with FDI to oil importing countries. In contrast, official development finance (ODA) is positively associated with good governance. The bigger bang for improving governance is at home in the form of increased tax revenues (excluding resource rents). The paper also uses the newly developed Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) and finds that improved governance is associated with increased private investment and ODA to the energy sector. In contrast, Chinese investment to the sector appears not to be responsive to changes in governance.

First-Year Students' Employment, Engagement, and Academic Achievement: Untangling the Relationship between Work and Grades

NASPA Journal ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary R Pike ◽  
George D. Kuh ◽  
Ryan C Massa-McKinley
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationships among first-year students’ employment, engagement, and academic achievement using data from the 2004 National Survey of Student Engagement. A statistically significant negative relationship was found between working more than 20 hours per week and grades, even after controlling for students’ characteristics and levels of engagement. An examination of the indirect relationships between work and grades revealed that working 20 hours or less on campus was significantly and positively related to grades, acting through student engagement.

scholarly journals Governance Indicators in the OIC Countries: A Descriptive Study for the Period 1996 – 2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 27-86
Author(s):  
Basheer Hazzam Salih Mahdi
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
Regulatory Quality ◽  
Aggregate Index ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
World Governance Indicators ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
And Control

The study aims to describe and analyze the governance indicators in OIC countries during the 1996-2018 period based on the data of World Governance Indicators (WGI). The descriptive-analytical approach had been adopted for using statistical methods to analyze the level and evolution of governance indicators. The researcher relied on aggregated indicators of governance based on the six sub-indicators of WGI indicators and then classified the level of governance in the OIC countries into four levels. The study reaped a number of results, the most important of them are: i) In general, the level of the aggregate index of governance in the OIC is lower than the world average by 0.62 and 0.70 points in 1996 and 2018, respectively; ii) Most Islamic countries fall within the low level of governance, and there is no Islamic country in the first level of governance (very high); iii) the average of governance index in Islamic countries declined by (0.07) points between 1996 and 2018. The study recommended that Islamic countries shall adopt policies aiming at improving public governance and combating corruption, by taking advantage from the sub-indicators of governance. The researchers also recommended to develop indicators of governance that are compatible with the principles of the Islamic Law and that can be used by the OIC. Keywords: Governance indicators, Islamic countries, OIC countries, Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption.

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