IOSR-JEF   Volume-11 ~ Issue-5 ~ Sep. – Oct. 2020

Abstract: Corporate social responsibility enables mobile telecommunication companies to operate ethically and sustainably regarding their environmental impacts. Environmental consciousness is critical in attracting customers and promoting product uptakes that result in increased earnings and better financial performance for companies. However, research on environmental corporate social responsibility and financial performance remains inadequately explored in Kenya. Therefore, the study examined the effect of environmental corporate social responsibility on mobile telecommunications companies' financial performance in Kenya. The target population comprised employees of Safaricom Plc, Airtel Kenya, and Telkom Kenya, working in the CSR, finance, and marketing departments at the companies' headquarters, all located in Nairobi. The study applied a descriptive design, and data was......

Keywords: Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility, Financial Performance, Mobile Telecommunication Companies

Abstract: The objective of this article is to show that the cultural diversification practiced by farmers organizations producing cocoa and coffee is a price risk management strategy for these products from a portfolio theory perspective. Secondary price data from UNCTAD and FAO have been used to calculate correlations and to identify crop combinations that maximize income and minimize risk. The combinations of cocoa - palm oil - tubers, cereals - bananas - coffee ... are optimal. Farmers organizations can adopt a combination of two or three crops, as the results show, to manage the price risk of cash crops. They can orient their cultivation activities by combining cash crops (with highly fluctuating and uncontrollable prices) with food crops (sometimes with stable and controllable prices). These associations must take into account the negative correlations of prices and yields between crops. The study showed that it is not the combination of many crops that minimizes price risk.....

Keywords: Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility, Financial Performance, Mobile Telecommunication Companies

Abstract: Empirically investigates the effect of international remittances inflows on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1995 to 2015 using panel data of 36 Sub-Sahara African countries. Employs the fixed effect model, random effect model, and the dynamic panel data model (using the generalized method of moments system-GMM SYS) as its econometric methodology. Results show that international remittances have negative effect on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Hence, recommends that emigration policies should be put in place to prevent the inordinate brain drain of the region's finest elites and also remittances inflows should be invested in productive activities and the advancement of local industries instead of increased purchase of imported products..

Keywords: Remittances Inflows, Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Growth, Panel Data, Generalized Method of Moments System. JEL Classification: F24, F21, F43, C55, C40,

Abstract: This study examines the effects of macroeconomic variables on the movement of stock prices in Dhaka Stock Exchange. Here the author has tried to analyze both long-run and short-run dynamic relationship between the stock market index and four macroeconomic variables including deposit interest rate, money supply, consumer price index, and exchange rate based on monthly data from June 2012 to June 2018 using multivariate regression model, Johansen's multivariate co-integration test and vector error correction model (VECM). The research paper proclaims that there is co-integration between macroeconomic variables and stock prices in DSE indicating long-run relationship. Further tests indicate that, in the short-run, inflation and exchange rates matter in a great deal for share price movements in DSE.....

Keywords: DSE Index, Consumer Price Index, Exchange Rate, Interest Rate, , Money Supply, Co-integration, VECM,

Abstract: In order to curtail the spread of the virus and to prevent the health system from collapsing under the pressure of an increase in the number of cases of the virus, the only solution is to prevent any form of human interaction and to maintain laws pertaining to social distancing; therefore, confinement was identified as being the surest method even if it entailed the disruption of the economy and the landscape of learning. This paper analyses the socio-economic impact of Covid-19 on the Mauritian Educational system. The recognition that there should be some form of educational continuity led to the emergence of online courses for students, including the broadcast of lessons on television. Nevertheless, the study shows that the methods employed widens the gap between the haves and haves not and it is.....

Keywords: Socio-economic impacts, Covid-19, Educational system

Abstract: The study examined the nexus between poverty, inequality and economic growth in Nigeria between 1980 to 2018. ARDL method of estimation was used to achieve the objective the study; and the result established that there exist a relationship between poverty, inequality and economic growth in Nigeria. Hence, the result shows that income inequality had positive but insignificant effect on economic growth both in short run and long run, while the short run result for absolute poverty revealed a negative and significant relationship with the economic growth; but the long run result though also negative but it was insignificant. The result further shows a positive and significant relationship between the population growth rate and the economic growth both in short run and long run; and lastly the.....

Keywords: Poverty, Inequality and Economic Growth

Abstract: Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated spices created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. India is predominantly an agricultural economy. Agriculture, and its allied sectors, is unquestionably the largest livelihood provider in India, more so in the vast rural areas. It also contributes a significant figure to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Generation of surplus from agricultural production will ultimately depend on increasing the agriculture production. Various studies have been conducted related to agriculture production......