Although there have been many prior studies on the determinants of capital structure, thernquestion of what determines the best financing mix that maximizes a firm’s value is still the mostrndebatable issue in corporate finance. Besides, a great deal of previous studies focused mainly...
E-government involves extensive use of ICT to deliver government information and services to citizens. In Ethiopia, online electronic government services have been launched and implemented for nearly a decade now. Yet, it has not reached the point where it is fully adopted and utilized by...
Government expenditure as one of major instrument of fiscal policy is now becomingrnthe growing concern in almost all countries. Countries who follow the world bankrnsponsored structural adjustment program (SAP) need to revise their policy of publicrnspending . Ethiopia,being one of them , is going...
Special and deferential treatment of developing countries by developed nationsrnis at the heart of current development rounds. Devising instruments that providernPreferential market access to big markets for some products from selectedrndeveloping countries was required to implement the SDT of...
This paper is intended to design and select an exchangernrate model that is consistent with the available informationrnin Ethiopia. The models include: the Interest ParityrnCondition(IPC), a version of the Frankel's(1979) long-runrnexchange rate model and a Meese's(1986) model of exchange...
An effort is made to: identify and determine the effect of the economic and demographic rn factors that influence the rapid growthrnof the educational system in Ethiopia. In doing this, the paperrnreviews the theoretical and empirical arguments for the rapidrninvestment on education in the world....
The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of bank-specific, industry specificrnand macroeconomic determinants of Ethiopian commercial banking industryrnProfitability from the period 2000 - 2011. By using OLS estimation method to measure thernEffect of internal and external...
Perceived service quality as measured by five dimensions of servicernquality and price IS the central point of discussion in this study. ThernInquiry was to scrutinize a gap between customers' service qualityrnexpectation s and customers ' service quality perceptions (experience).rnCustomer survey...
This paper analysis the levels of total factor productivity and competitiveness ofrnEthiopian textile and garment industries in sight from medium and large scale firms overrnthe period 2001-2005. In this regard, textile and garment sub-sector plays an importantrnrole in industrialization and...
This study aimed at examining whether Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africarn(COMES!) is effective in promoting trade among its member states. The study uses gravityrnmodel to estimate the trade intensity among its members for the year 198 1 and 1999. The gravityrnmodel is applied to trade...
The economic performance of most of the Sub-Saharan countries is not satisfactory asrncompared to that of East Asian countries. The issue of economic growth has been thernconcern of economists with the intent of answering the question as to why there arerndifferences in the growth rates across...
Currently only 26% of Ethiopian Population get safe drinkingrnwater, which is the lowest access to safe water provision in thernworld. The coverage of the rural areas is even lower at 19%,rnwhile in the urban areas it is 77% .rnThese facts are indicator of the necessity of a major effort...
Using the stochastic frontier analysis and employing the cost, standard profit, alternative profitrnand labor efficiency concepts, this study has analyzed the efficiency situations and identifiedrnthe exogenous factors affecting the inefficiencies of the Ethiopian commercial banks fromrn1994/95 to...
In response to excess demand for foreign exchange in the official market, parallelrnmarkets for foreign exchange develop . The emergence and existence of active parallelrnforeign exchange market creates several complications to policy makers in their attemptrnto regulate the external balance. That...
Background –Previous studies have identified factors affecting Health Service ExtensionrnProgram implementation as well as working conditions of Health Extension Workers inrnEthiopia. Most of the studies conducted were qualitative and none of them raised the question tornwhat extent HEWs are...
Introduction: Knowledge management is the planning, organizing, motivating, and controllingrnof people, processes and systems in an organization to ensure that organizational knowledgerelatedrnrnassets are improved and effectively employed. The study aims, to assess knowledgernmanagement practice,...
Back ground- Study findings on inter-pregnancy interval and birth outcome looks rncontradictory. Some report that it is a risk factor for adverse perinatal outcomes while others say rnit has no association. Still, there is no agreed time period (interval) recommended best for the rngood outcome of...
This paper attempts to assess the impact of Ethiopia's COMESA membership on itsrnexport flows. In this regard the tobit random effects of the gravity model has beenrnspecified to annual export." of Ethiopia to twenty countries over the period f 98 f-rn2006. Accordingly, the results of the...
The purpose of the study is to look into the determinants of microenterprise loanrnrepayment in Addis Ababa particularly to Gulele sUb-city.rnLoan repayment has paramount importance for most developing countries, because lackrnof financial resources is usually regarded as a major obstacle to the...
Addressing the issue of rural poverty in agro-pastoral areas of Nuer should be at the heart ofrnany development strategy for Gambella region. The main objectives are: ( I) to measure thernlevel of poverty, (2) to single out major determinants of poverty in an agro-pastoralists areasrnand (3) to...