scholarly journals Does economic policy in Nigeria enhance sustainable water and sanitation facilities?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divine Ndubuisi Obodoechi ◽  
Paschaline Nkeiruka Ugwu ◽  
Chukwuagoziem Samuel Agu ◽  
Davidmac Olisa Ekeocha
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Logistic Model ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Community Projects ◽  
Binary Logistic Model ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Over the years, economic policy in Nigeria has been a subject of concern for policymakers. The effectiveness of this policy in providing basic necessities for Nigerians has also been in question. There have been several controversies in terms of its implementation and sustainability over the years. In this paper, we investigate the impact of economic policies on providing sustainable water and sanitation facilities in Nigeria. In our analysis, the binary logistic model is adopted to understand how effective these policies are in providing these facilities. The results show that expenditure on social and community service leads to an increase in the use of unsafe sanitation facilities in the country. Furthermore, our study also shows that expenditure in the health services sector helps in reducing the use of such unsafe facilities. From the results, we recommend that policies aimed toward providing sustainable water and sanitation facilities need proper checks, improvement, and effective implementation so as to achieve viable results. These can be done by implementing supervised community projects on sanitation facilities and also by educating local communities through organized symposiums and workshops in rural and certain urban areas in the country.

Economic Policy and Class Structure in Syria: 1958–1980

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Aziz-al Ahsan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Land Reforms ◽  
The Impact

It is indeed an interesting endeavor to investigate the impact of economic policies on social stratification. Doing so enables us to see to what extent economic policies bring changes in class structure in a society. We take the case of Syria to study its economic policies and their accompanying impact on the evolving pattern of the Syrian elite from the late 1950s to the early 1980s and then look at accompanying impact on class structure.The two poles or aspects of this paper are (1) economic policies themselves and (2) their impact on class structure. The question that we are going to raise in the first pole is the following: what is the nature of the economic policies? This refers to land reforms, industrial and commercial reforms, and foreign trade controls.

Urban Land Use Changes by the Integration of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Dynamics Modeling

2013 ◽  
Vol 726-731 ◽  
pp. 4645-4649
Author(s):  
Jia Hua Zhang ◽  
Cui Hao ◽  
Feng Mei Yao
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Logistic Model ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Ratio Test ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Model ◽  
The Impact

We developed an approach to assess urban land use changes that incorporates socio-economic and environmental factors with multinomial logistic model, remote sensing data and GIS, and to quantify the impact of macro variables on land use of urban areas for the years 1990, 2000 and 2010 in Binhai New Area, China. The Markov transition matrix was designed to integrate with multinomial logistic model to illustrate and visualize the predicted land use surface. The multinomial logistic model was evaluated by means of Likelihood ratio test and Pseudo R-Square and showed a relatively good simulation. The prediction map of 2010 showed accurate rates 78.54%, 57.25% and 70.38%, respectively.

Testing the efficacy of the economic policy uncertainty index on tourism demand in USMCA: Theory and evidence

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 1344-1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cem Işık ◽  
Ercan Sirakaya-Turk ◽  
Serdar Ongan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Tourism Demand ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Demand Models ◽  
The Impact

The global economic outlook is more uncertain than ever before and sensitive to uncertainties related to a variety of economic policies decisions of all stakeholders and governments. These perceived uncertainties may be the culprit in shrinking the size of overall economic activity. Under increasing uncertainties, travel and vacation plans of consumers can be canceled or postponed. Therefore, policy-related economic uncertainties are expected to affect tourism demand beyond well-established economic and noneconomic factors. In this study, we explore the efficacy and the impact of the economic policy uncertainty (EPU) index in predicting the tourism demand on international tourist arrivals (a measure of tourism demand) to the United States from Mexico and Canada over the period of January 1996–September 2017. The findings of the study reveal that EPU is a significant predictor as increases in the EPU index lead to decreases in tourism demand to the United States. Canadian tourists seem to be more sensitive to EPUs. Increases in the EPU index cause them to reduce Canadians’ vacations to the United States proportionally more than the Mexicans. To enhance the explanatory power of current models, the uncertainty can be a theoretically significant construct thus needs to be included when calibrating demand models.

scholarly journals Study on the impact of livelihood capital on farmers’ choice of forestland management mode —a case study of Fujian province

2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 02003
Author(s):  
Jing Li ◽  
Qin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Logistic Model ◽  
Management Mode ◽  
Sustainable Livelihood ◽  
Fujian Province ◽  
Binary Logistic Model ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mode A ◽  
Scale Management

Based on the survey data of 300 households in Fujian province, the system of farmers’ choice of forestland management mode was constructed by using the framework of sustainable livelihood analysis, and the impact of livelihood capital on farmers’ choice of forestland management mode was analyzed by using binary logistic model. The research shows that the factors of livelihood capital have different impact on the choice of forestland management mode. On this basis, the author puts forward some countermeasures to encourage farmers to improve their livelihood capital capacity, develop scale management and reduce their dependence on forestland income.

scholarly journals Integration of Rural and Urban Society in China and Implications for Urbanization, Infrastructure, Land and Labor in the New Era

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Haiying Feng ◽  
Victor R. Squires
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
New Era ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Urban Population Growth ◽  
The Impact

In many parts of China, rapid economic growth, socio-economic inequality, and environmental degradation (air, water, soil) are undermining social stability and sustainable urbanization. Rural-urban migration is the main factor contributing to urban population growth. Economic opportunity in urban areas is the main ‘pull factor’ but government policies provide a ‘push factor’. A model of the relationship over time of the rural sector and the urban sectors, mainly relating to the focus on manufacturing and the services sector, is discussed. Each sector provides a market for the other. We use three cameos of different types of urban-rural development taking examples from a Prefecture-level city of about 500,000 population located in Guangxi Autonomous Region in south east China. We analyze the infrastructure plan and land use planning in respect to the impact on labor, investment and urban growth.

An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Policy. Part II: The Necessity of Timely Switching

2006 ◽  
pp. 46-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Polterovich ◽  
V. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Impact

This is the second part (first part: Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2006, No 7) of the work on how economic policy of a developing country should change as it approaches the level of developed economies in terms of welfare (GDP per capita) and the quality of institutions. We focus on the impact of several policies to promote the catch up development: the speed of foreign exchange reserves accumulation ("exchange rate protectionism"); import tariffs; measures to attract foreign direct investment; import of technology versus indigenous R&D; regulation of migration and measures to support large versus small enterprises. The econometric analysis of the data on over 200 countries in 1975-1999 shows that the impact of these policies may be positive or negative depending on a stage of development; in each case we find threshold levels or critical combinations of GDP per capita and/or an institutional quality indicator. Thus, there is additional evidence to support the conclusions made in the first part of the article and based on the analysis of the evolution of economic policies in the Western countries and in the countries of successful catch up development ("economic miracles").

scholarly journals Whether Digital Financial Inclusion Can Improve Capital Misallocation or Not: A Study Based on the Moderating Effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Guohua He ◽  
Lu Shen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

This paper discusses the impact of digital financial inclusion on regional capital’s turn from the fictitious to the substantial economy. The continuous decline of the capital efficiency of the real economy is an important reason for the misallocation of financial capital, such as the financialization of real enterprises. Development of the digital financial inclusion helps to relieve small and micro businesses from financing constraints, encourage civilian consumption, and improve services concerning issues of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. Yet, its financial features also indicate potential systematic risks, manifested as the capital’s departure from its intended purpose of serving the substantial economy, given some beneficiaries’ investment in the fictitious economy. Based on the provincial panel data between 2011 and 2019, this paper constructs an index describing capital’s diversion from the fictitious to the substantial economy. This paper then analyzes the impact of digital financial inclusion on such a diversion of the regional capital, investigating the regulatory effects caused by the uncertainty in economic policies. Empirical study reveals that digital financial inclusion has an evident positive effect on regional capital’s diversion from the fictitious to the substantial economy but without any spatial spillover effect. Among the three subdimensions of digital financial inclusion-scope of coverage, depth of usage, and level of digitalization, the scope of coverage has the strongest positive effect, and digitization level, the weakest. The positive correlation between digital financial inclusion and capital diversion from the fictitious to the substantial economy is under negative regulation due to economic policy uncertainty. In other words, increasing uncertainty in the economic policy would weaken digital financial inclusion’s support of the substantial economy.

scholarly journals Assess the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Propose Solutions for Sustainable Development for Textile Enterprises: An Integrated Data Envelopment Analysis-Binary Logistic Model Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 465
Author(s):  
Han-Khanh Nguyen ◽  
Mai-Nam Vu
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Logistic Model ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Dea Models ◽  
Binary Logistic Model ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Model Approach

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted many socio-economic areas of countries around the world. It has made the production and business situations of enterprises face substantial difficulties. In this study, the authors used data envelopment analysis (DEA) models to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Vietnam’s textile and garment enterprises. The authors have used the binary logistic model to determine the factors affecting employees’ decision to change jobs in the textile industry. The research results showed that the COVID-19 pandemic greatly affected the business performance of the textile and garment enterprises in Vietnam. Moreover, the results helped identify the factors affecting employee turnover and proposed solutions to help businesses stabilize their personnel situation and develop sustainable businesses in the post-COVID-19 era.

scholarly journals Relaciones entre Política Económica,análisis del entorno y la motivación del Recurso Humano en las empresas

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Rodney Ramírez Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Environmental Analysis ◽  
Political System ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Business System ◽  
The Impact

This essay aims to establish how much influence the economic policies do have on staff motivation practices used by business organizations, in the context of their strategic analysis. To achieve this, there will be a tour of theoretical reflections related to the characteristics of the political system and the understanding of economic policies as a product of their interactions. In a didactic way, specific economic policies are visited considering their objectives and implementation instruments. The link between economic policy and environmental analysis is established; also, the relationship between the inner environmental analysis and human resources management. Finally, a set of company practices to motivate their staff are listed. All this sequence of concepts, from the political system, economic policy, analysis of the environment and surroundings, the role of human resources and motivational activities; creates a sufficient frame of reference to be able to conclude on the impact of economic policy on the motivation of individuals affiliated to a business system.

scholarly journals Economics versus politics: pitfalls of policy advice

2013 ◽  
pp. 4-28
Author(s):  
D. Acemoglu ◽  
J. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Main Message ◽  
The Impact

The standard approach to policy making and advice in economics implicitly or explicitly ignores politics and political economy and maintains that if possible, any market failure should be rapidly removed. This essay explains why this conclusion may be incorrect; because it ignores politics, this approach is oblivious to the impact of the removal of market failures on future political equilibria and economic efficiency, which can be deleterious. We first outline a simple framework for the study of the impact of current economic policies on future political equilibria — and indirectly on future economic outcomes. We then illustrate the mechanisms through which such impacts might operate using a series of examples. The main message is that sound economic policy should be based on a careful analysis of political economy and should factor in its influence on future political equilibria.

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