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Education and SMME business growth: a gender perspective from South Africa
(Clute Institute, 2013)
Entrepreneurship is becoming an increasingly important source of employment for women in many countries. Policymakers and other stakeholders typically fail to differentiate between the needs of different SMME sectors when ...
A framework for combating insider trading on developing stock exchanges: Evidence from the Zimbabwean stock exchange
(Academic Journals, 2013)
Stock exchanges play a vital role in any capitalist economy as they provide a secondary market where
investors can buy and sell shares under orderly conditions at fair and competitive prices. This role
requires stock ...
Entrepreneurial knowledge and aspirations of dentistry students in South Africa: The influences of gender and race
(SAGE Publications, 2013)
An investigation of the intentions and knowledge of entrepreneurship of final-year university dentistry students is reported, with particular regard to the factors of gender and race. A questionnaire survey was used with ...
Challenges of microfinance access in Nigeria: implications for entrepreneurship development
(MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome, 2013)
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly being accepted as valuable platforms to create jobs and improve livelihoods. The Nigerian government has enacted favorable laws and regulations on contracts, leasing, ...
Unlocking the secrets of fundamental indexes: size effect or value effect? Evidence from emerging stock markets
(Business Perspectives, 2013)
Despite the abundant successful evidence of fundamental indexation in recent international literature, it is argued that
the performance of fundamental indexes is primarily attributed to their inherent value bias or ...
A Review of Value Added in Nigeria's Pre and Post-SAP Agricultural Sector: Background and Issues
(International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD), 2013)
In spite of the growing importance of oil, Nigeria has remained essentially an agrarian economy, with agriculture still significantly contributing to its Gross Domestic Product. However, the potentials of the agricultural ...
Beneficial ownership provisions in tax treaties between developed and developing countries: the Canada/South Africa example
(Clute Institute, 2013)
In the years since the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) adopted
its first draft tax treaty in 1963, the world has experienced an astonishing surge in international
trade and investment. The ...
Entrepreneurial knowledge and aspirations of dentistry students in South Africa
(IP Publishing Ltd, 2013)
An investigation of the intentions and knowledge of
entrepreneurship of final-year university dentistry students is reported,
with particular regard to the factors of gender and race. A questionnaire
survey was used ...
Nonlinearities in stock return prediction: A Blended Approach
(The Clute Institute, 2013)
Our prior research indicates that there are periods within which nonlinear stock selection models outperform their linear counterparts in the South African equity market. In order to explore the nonlinearities in stock ...
Potential gains from sector timing in Taiwan
(IFRD, 2013)
The dominance of the electronic sector in the Taiwanese stock market and the relatively low historical correlation between the Taiwanese electronic and financial sector indexes call for the exploration of sector diversity ...