Nigerian economy is a multi-sector economy with agricultural and manufacturing sectors as the prime sectors. This study focused on the effect of commercial bank credits on the output of agricultural and manufacturing sectors in Nigeria. It spanned for the period of 31years (1986-2016) and made use of secondary data extracted from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical (CBN) Bulletin for various years. The study adopted ex-post facto research design and employed the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bound test and Ordinary least squares multiple regression analysis considering necessary diagnostic tests such as unit root test, test of normality, heteroskedasticity test, and cointegration test. The findings revealed that commercial bank credits have significant positive effect on the productivity of agricultural and manufacturing sectors in Nigeria. The implication of the findings is that more credits to agriculture and manufacturing sectors in Nigeria will increase output in the respective sectors. Hence, the researcher recommended among others more lending to agricultural and manufacturing sectors so as to boost productivity of these sectors.

The studywas to evaluate the relationshipbetween performance appraisal system and staff retention in Enugu Electricity Distribution Company of Nigeria. The specific objectives include to; examine the relationship between employee’s rate of output produced and employee training. Examine the relationship between employee recognition and achievement of organizational goals. The population consists of 983 staff of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company of Nigeria (EEDC).The study used the survey approach. The primary sources used were the administration of questionnaire to staff. The 274 sample size of the study, the study used the Freund and Williams’s formula. 261 staff returned the questionnaire and accurately filled. The validity of the instrument was tested using content analysis and the result was good. The reliability was tested using the Pearson correlation coefficient (r). It gave a reliability co-efficient of 0.82 which was also good. The hypotheses were analyzed using f-statistics (ANOVA) tool. The findings indicated that there is positive effect relationship between employee’s rates of output produced and employee training F(95,n= 274)= 827.372,P<0.05;This indicates that there is positive effect relationship between employee recognition and achievement of organizational goals F(95,n=274)= 367.439,P<0.05.The study concluded that appropriate training and development programmes would be designed to correct deficiencies through performance appraisal. The study recommended that Performance appraisal should be encouraged in organizations to assists workers and management meets their expected target and Recognition of employees by the management should be a top issue in organization to enable workers gives out their best.

The need to consolidate and complete the development progress driven by the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and ensure that no one is left behind led world leaders to gather at the UN Headquarters in New York in September 2015 to adopt a new program on sustainable development. The SDGs provide a more ambitious international framework for driving progress between 2016 and 2030. A review of the MDGs implementation in Nigeria reveals that the country registered mixed results across the goals, geographic areas and gender groups. Even though, there are some progresses on some indicators, many of the goals and targets were not met. This is in view of the fact that the Nigerian Government did so many things in order to achieve the set goals. The debates surrounding the SDGs have mainly concerned with the setting of goals and indicators while less attention has been paid to discussing the roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders towards achieving these goals, and how to best implement this universal framework at the local level. Given the scope and ambition of the SDGs, it is clear that governments alone cannot achieve the agenda. Therefore, building vibrant and systematic partnerships with other stakeholders is a vital prerequisite for the successful implementation of a transformative agenda to accelerate poverty reduction and sustainable development goals. The objective of this paper is to explore the role of CSOs, VOPEs, private sector and the media towards achieving the SDGs in Nigeria.

This study seeks to examine the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) volatility in Nigeria. Using annual time series data from 1980 to 2016, the study adopted the Exponential GARCH model, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimation technique and the Error Correction Mechanism. The major findings of the study reveal that there is a negative correlation between Nigeria’s past and future REER, which further implies that negative shock has less effects on exchange rate volatility when compared with a positive shock. It also found that exchange rate has a very significant effect on FDI in Nigeria while there also exists a long-run relationship between them. The study therefore advocates for a strong foreign exchange policies by the CBN to attract FDI. It also suggests that CBN should be keen on monitoring the financial news in the economy as it could heighten exchange rate and financial market volatilities; which may not be good for the economy’s overall growth and development in the long-run.

The Kenyan government is currently supporting the start-up as well as the growth of youth enterprises, in line with the Medium Term Plan of Vision 2030, by creating a conducive environment and support programmes in order to develop the sector. Despite these efforts, the performance of youth enterprises in Kenya has been miserable. The breadth to which this huge amount of money has influenced the growth and profit margins of these many youth enterprises remains unexplored. Furthermore, there is a lack of enough literature as far as the effect of youth enterprise development fund on the growth of MSEs. This research, therefore, sought to establish the effect of Youth Enterprise Development Fund services on the growth of MSEs in Nyando Constituency. The objectives that guided this study include: to determine the effect of YEDF lending financing services on growth of youth MSEs in Nyando Constituency; to determine the effect of YEDF linkage services with large enterprises on growth of youth MSEs in Nyando Constituency; to establish the effect of YEDF marketing services on growth of youth MSEs locally and internationally in Nyando Constituency and to determine the extent to which YEDF provides Business Development Services to Youth MSEs in Nyando Constituency. A descriptive survey research design was employed.

Derivatives have been around in the global market for a very long time. The evidence of characteristics of derivative contracts can even be found in the incidents that date back to the ages before Jesus Christ and in India in epic as old as Mahabharata. The first recorded instance of futures trading appears to have been occurred with Yodoya rice market in Osaka, Japan around 1650. Futures are one of the most popular derivative contracts in India as compared to traditional securities market. The stock exchanges in India have been in existence for more than a century now. Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is a stock exchange located in Mumbai, Maharashtra and was established in 1875. Subsequently, the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was set up in November 1992. The road for stock exchange traded derivatives contracts was cleared with the removal of prohibition of options on securities by way of amendment to Securities Laws through Securities Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 1995. A Bill was introduced on October 28, 1999 and was converted into an Act on December 16, 1999 making way for derivatives trading in India. This study focus on the understanding the price movements and behaviours of futures market in India with special reference selected futures. The study also reveals the relationship among various future contracts of different companies.

This study examines the relationship between monetary aggregates and economic growth with evidence from Nigeria. It examines the extent to which narrow and broad money supply relate to Nigerian Real Gross Domestic Product. Data collected were analyzed using multiple regression. The result of the study shows though broad money supply (M2) has a salutary effect on the performance of the economy as shown by the positive relationship it exhibits, the relationship is not such that monetary aggregates can significantly contribute to the performance of the economy. The paper recommends that since monetary aggregates are weak in achieving growth in the Nigerian economy, a combination of monetary and fiscal policy measures , perhaps will achieve the desired objective of growing the economy.

In this paper, based on WuZhiWen's 2002 construction method on comprehensive index of financial fragility, respectively from the fragility of the financial market subsystem, the fragility of the banking subsystem, the fragility of the financial supervision subsystem and the fragility of the macro-economic environment subsystem, to measure the degree of China's financial fragility during the period of 1997 to 2016. Then taking the four subsystem indicators and comprehensive indicators into the Wurgler's 2000 model of capital allocation efficiency. The result shows that, firstly, China's financial fragility generally declined in 1997 to 2016, and the fragility of the financial supervision subsystem was the highest. Secondly, the financial fragility has an inhibitory effect on the capital allocation of China's real economic capital, which the financial supervision subsystem has a particularly obvious suppression on it.

This study aims to examine and analyze the effect of DER, ROA, EPS and MS on stock returns on telecommunications sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. This study uses annual data for the observation period from 2012 to 2016. The type of research is descriptive causality. The data used is panel data which is a combination of annual time series data and cross section processed using panel data regression analysis. The population is telecommunications companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2012 up to 2016 a number of 5 companies. The sampling technique used purposive sampling, found a sample of 4 companies with a 5-year observation to obtain a total observation of 20. Data were obtained from Sahamok. Data analysis in this study is panel data regression. The model used is Fixed Effect Model. The results of the analysis show that the DER variable has a significant positive effect, ROA has a significant positive effect, while EPS and MS have no significant negative effect on stock returns, namus simultaneously to the four variables DER, ROA, EPS and MS together can affect the stock return shown by data processing results that get R2 value of 82.44% of the telecommunications sector stock returns on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2012-2016.