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Scaling conditional tail probability and quantile estimators

Cotter, John - 2009

In terms of risk measurement, probability and quantile risk estimation have developed enormously in the past decade, from value-at-risk measures to coherent measures such as expected shortfall. These measures allow an investor to determine their risk profile accounting for losses (quantiles) at...

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Unlocking sustained business value from IT investments

Peppard, Joe; Ward, John - 2005

Surveys continue to highlight that most senior business executives aredissatisfied with the value they believe their organizations are deriving frominvestments in information technology. What is often forgotten is that IT initself has no inherent value. This value must be unlocked, and only...

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The external debt crisis and its impact on economic gowth and investment in Sub-Saharan Africa. A regional econometric approach of ECOWAS countries.

Suma, Dauda Foday - 2007

Development economists generally argue that poor countries at their early stages of development are often faced with limited domestic resources for development, and can therefore borrow from the developed nations to boost their rate of growth and development. This financing gap problem, which is...

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METHODOLOGICAL PROVISION OF INVESTMENT MECHANISM MANAGEMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Gherman, Ecaterina - 2017

The understanding that investments are one of the key factors in the process of reproduction and are also one of the most unstable components of the aggregate demand stipulates the need for effective management of the investment process on the macro as well as micro levels. Investment process...

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Female Entrepreneurs in Transitional Economies: a comparative study of Businesswomen in Nigeria and China

Kitching, Beverley; Woldie, Atsese - 2004

Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and … difficult(OECD, 1998, 2001). Should China and Nigeria follow a similar pattern to other societies during the development process …

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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria

Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...

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Oil-dependence and civil conflict in Nigeria

Oyefusi, Aderoju - 2007

This paper examines oil-dependence and civil conflict in Nigeria focusing on the economic dynamics of resource … of oil-dependence in Nigeria. …

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Pricing and operational efficiencies in the livestock feed market in Ondo State, Nigeria

Oguntade, Adegboyega E.; Mafimisebi, Taiwo E. - 2010

feed industry in Ondo State, Nigeria. …

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Estimation of Actual and Potential Adoption Rates and Determinants of Improved Rice Variety Among Rice Farmers in Nigeria: The Case of NERICAs

Dontsop Nguezet, Paul Martin; Diagne, Aliou; Okoruwa, … - 2010

rates and their determinants of the NERICA (New Rice for Africa) rice varieties in Nigeria. Empirical evidence shows that …. NERICA awareness was found to be a major constraint to NERICA adoption in Nigeria. Several socioeconomic … occupation, year of experience and vocational training. In particular, we have found that the NERICA adoption rate in Nigeria …

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Private Wage Returns to Schooling in Nigeria: 1996-1999

Aromolaran, Adebayo B. - 2002

In the last two decades, primary and secondary school enrollment rates have declined in Nigeria while enrollment rates … in post-secondary school have increased. This paper estimates from the General Household Survey for Nigeria the private …

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