Research Vol. 5‚ No. 3; March 2012 The Effect of Investment Promotion on Foreign Direct Investment Inflow into Ghana Justice G. Djokoto Department of Agribusiness‚ Central Business School‚ Central University College P. O. Box DS 2310‚ Dansoman‚ Accra‚ Ghana Tel: 233-28-503-7399 Received: January 10‚ 2012 doi:10.5539/ibr.v5n3p46 Abstract The paper investigated the effect of investment promotion (IP) on foreign direct investment flow (FDI) into Ghana. Cointegration among the variables was established
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specific task: distractions‚ psychological effects‚ and even noisy environments. Clients‚ including: families and individuals‚ in the Social Work professions have difficult times staying focus on a problem. In Brooks and Cole Empowerment Series: Direct Social Work Practice‚ 9th Edition book‚ specifies that the task-centered model with minors include improving school performance‚ changing or modifying behavior in residential facilities‚ and reducing sibling conflict. A task-centered model for group
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EVA Comparison with Direct Employee Stock Ownership and Option Plans An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is a type of defined contribution benefit plan that buys and holds company stock. Employees do not actually buy shares in an ESOP. Instead‚ the company contributes its own shares to the plan‚ contributes cash to buy its own stock or has the plan borrow money to buy stock‚ with the company repaying the loan. All of these uses have significant tax benefits for the company‚ the employees
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Foreign Direct Investment in Services and Manufacturing Productivity: Evidence for Chile Ana M. Fernandes a The World Bank Caroline Paunov b OECD March 2011 Journal of Development Economics forthcoming Abstract This paper examines the impact of substantial foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in producer service sectors on the total factor productivity (TFP) of Chilean manufacturing firms. Positive effects are obtained in firm fixed effects instrumental variables regressions and show
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In the years 1928-1941 Stain started a series of Five year plans for industry‚ how far were these successful? Once in power‚ Stalin was determined to modernise the USSR as quickly as possible‚ he wanted to compete with other foreign countries‚ but also he was afraid of a German invasion hence forth he set about achieving modernisation through a series of five year plans. These plans were set up by the GOSPLAN‚ the state planning organisation which Lenin had set up in 1921. The GOSPLAN set ambitious
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Industrialization has not only changed the way the world do business but also changed the world itself. Fortunately‚ Nigeria is one of the countries that did not escape its impact. Industrialization is the process of social and economic change that transforms a human group from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one. It is a part of a wider modernization process‚ where social change and economic development are closely related with
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An extension of the approach used to teach classical Ls to the teaching of modern L Grammar translation approach *Characteristics * Instruction is given in the native L of the students. * There is little use of the target L for communication. * Focus is on grammatical parsing; the form and inflection of words. * There is early reading of difficult texts. * A typical exercise is to translate sentences from the target L into the mother tongue ‚VS * The result of this approach
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Should direct democracy be more widely used in the UK? (25 marks) I think direct democracy should be more widely used in the UK however there are also disadvantages of direct democracy and critiquing of the advantages and disadvantages. Direct democracy should be used more widely in the UK because it avoids decisions made by representatives in their own interest. This is because the people are making the decisions. This will be beneficial because people’s voices will be heard and represented as
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INTRODUCTION: 3 PART I: COMPANY ANALYSIS 5 1- Introduction of the company 5 1.1 History: 5 1.2. The industry: 5 1.3. Sports Direct today: 6 2. Analysis on the financing structure of the company 6 2.1. Sports Direct financial statements: 7 2.2. JJB Sports financial statements: 9 2.3. Ratios of Sports Direct and JJB Sports 12 3. The weighted average cost of capital 15 3.1. Cost of equity: 15 3.2. Cost of debt: 15 3.3. WACC: 16 PART II: PROJECT INVESTMENT ANALYSIS
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INVESTMENT ANALYSIS OF JD SPORTS AND SPORTS DIRECT Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 5 1. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF JD SPORTS AND SPORTS DIRECT 5 1.1 Liquidity Ratios 5 1.2 Profitability Ratios 6 1.3 Debt Ratios 7 1.4 Operating Ratios 8 1.5 Investment Valuation Ratios 8 2. ASSESSMENT OF FIRMS VERSUS THE INDUSTRY 16 3. INVESTMENT RECOMMENDATION 17 The recommendation for Dave Jones is rationale for several reasons: 18 REFERENCES 20 INTRODUCTION As the member of World Wealth Management
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