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Abstract : Does Stock Market Development Enhance Private Investment in Ghana?
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Abstract: The paper investigates the extent to which stock market development enhances private investment in Ghana. Quarterly times series data for the period 1991(Q1) to 2011(Q4) are used. Stock market development is proxy by market capitalization. The paper adopts the Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS) method of estimation. The results for deposit interest rates, GDP per capita, and public investment confirm complementarity hypothesis, accelerator principle, as well as “crowding-in” effect for Ghana in the long-run in their respective cases. Market capitalization also increases private investment in the long-run. However, inflation reduces private investment. In the short-run, one quarter lag and two quarters lag values of private investment and public investment respectively increases private investment, while one quarter lag value of market capitalization reduces current levels of private investment. The paper recommends further development of the stock market since doing so will attract more investors and ultimately enhance private investment. Keywords: Market capitalisation, private investment, DOLS, Africa, Ghana. |
Abstract : Tergiversation of Human Rights, Deciphering the Core of Kirchnerismo
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Abstract: After the atrocities perpetrated by Nazism over civilian targets during Would War II philosophy contemplated a neologism to express in words, the barbarian-world imagined by Nazi’s Germany. Human rights were formulated to protect the vulnerabilities of ethnic minorities. However, one of the paradoxes of genocides seems to be related to the fact that the same nation-state which should grant the protection of citizenship violated the human rights of peoples. This was what happened in Latin American dictatorships during 76/82 in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. The National Process of Reorganization which took the power in 1976, exerted a considerable degree of violence over worker unions and political dissidents. Kirchnerismo today continues the discussion of human right violation of that time, but manipulating its nature in favor of the own interests. The dilemma of “desaparecidos” paves the ways for the creation of two contrasting worlds, which is filled by conspiracy theories produced by Kirchnerismo to keep the hegemony. Keywords: Human Right violations, Genocides, Violence, Democracy, Dictatorship. |
Abstract : A Review Study of Error Analysis Theory
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Abstract: Up until the late sixties, the prominent theory in the field of second language acquisition or learning was almost behaviouristic, which claimed that the learning was a result of acquiring a set of new language patterns. Hence, second language errors were considered as only the result of learners' mother tongue habits in the target language. Errors which were not explained based on this assumption will definitely be underestimated. Therefore, there was a need for another approach in order to clearly describe second language learners' errors. Given this, the current study aims at reviewing and discussing the Error Analysis theory in terms of theoretical foundations, theoretical assumptions, limitations and significance of this theory. This review reveals that despite the criticism that this theory has received, it still plays a fundamental role in investigating, identifying and describing second language learners' errors and their causes. Most importantly, Error Analysis can enable second language teachers to find out different sources of second language errors and take some pedagogical precautions towards them. Moreover, Error Analysis can provide a good methodology for investigating second language learners' errors. Once the causes or sources of errors are discovered, it is probable to conclude and decide on the remedy.. Keywords: First language, second language, errors, acquisition. |
Abstract : Integrating the Qur’ān Verses into Secondary School Science Curriculum of Yemen: An Islamic Perspective
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Abstract: This study attempted to answer the following questions: "(1) What are the Qur’ān Verses (QVs) that are suitable to be integrated into Secondary School Science Curriculum of of Yemen (YSSSC)? And (2) "In what neutral sciences disciplines (NSDs) of YSSSC these verses can be integrated? To this end, Delphi technique-two rounds (i.e. DTRI and DTRII) as well as interview were used to collect data from ten panelists. Panelists were selected based on two criteria: specialization and level of education. Each of panelists was either professor or assistant professor at Yemeni universities. Panelists were asked to give their own perspectives on the suitability of the QVs for integrating in YSSSC and to give their perspectives in which NSDs these verses could be integrated. A constructed questionnaire consisted of 200 QVs was used to carry out DTRI and DTRII, too. Result of DTRI was 161 of 200 QVs, while all 210 QVs of the DTRII' questionnaire were accepted as a suitable QVs to be integrated in YSSSC. In addition, the suggested QVs were decreasingly distributed (i.e. the highest first, then the lowest) among the NSDs of YSSSC as follows: environment, biology, chemistry, astronomy, physics, and earth. Based on the results of this study, it is recommended that Integrated Qur’ān-science approach might be Yemeni school curricula-based (i.e. science curricula). Keywords: Qur’ān, science, Natural Sciences, Science Education. |
