{"title":"Factors Affecting Home Gardening as a Source of Enhancing Household Food Security: A Case Study in Mirigama Ds Division","authors":"S. Dissanayake, L. Manawadu","doi":"10.4038/cjmr.v4i1.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/cjmr.v4i1.36","url":null,"abstract":"Home gardens can make a significant contribution in meeting daily household needs for better nutrition and health. The study was based on primary data consisting of hundred and fifteen households in Mirigama DSD selected through stratified random sampling. A questionnaire survey and a site observation was conducted to collect information and to evaluate home gardens respectively. Evaluation and grading was done based on a predefined criterion. Chi-Square test was applied to examine the relationship between the severity of the factors based on the interviews, and the grades obtained. Results obtained implied that frequency of involvement in home gardening activities, proportion of land used for food crop production, pest and diseases, crop damage due to wild animals, basic knowledge in agricultural practices, knowledge on methods of obtaining quality seeds and planting materials, basic knowledge in animal husbandry, influence by the government assistance and women participation had a significant relationship with the level of home gardening. (","PeriodicalId":269351,"journal":{"name":"Colombo Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132140132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Emotional Intelligence and Success of Women Entrepreneurs in the Beauty Salon Industry in Sri Lanka: A study of Colombo District","authors":"R. Senathiraja, Sarath Buddhadasa, A. Gunasekera","doi":"10.4038/cjmr.v4i1.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/cjmr.v4i1.40","url":null,"abstract":"It was observed that a higher percentage of women lead enterprises in hair and beauty salon industry in Sri Lanka. Though this industry is growing at a remarkable rate within the last few years, very few studies focused on the link of Emotional Intelligent (EI) to the success of women enterprises. The purpose of the study is to understand the level EI and its relationship to the Enterprise success of women in the hair and beauty salon industry. It also evaluates how managerial skill, sociocultural context, education age and location play on the success of women enterprises in the industry. The deductive method was adopted, and a sample of 100 women entrepreneurs surveyed by using a structured questionnaire. The findings confirm that there is a higher level of EI in women entrepreneurs lead to the success of their business. At the same time, age and business location and socio-cultural context have a significant impact on their achievements. The study suggested using much of self-management, social awareness and relationship management to develop women into next pedestal of entrepreneurship and also it insists government authorities work toward the country’s economic development through focusing in introducing educational programs to improve emotional intelligence in women, during the general education as well as in professional learning.","PeriodicalId":269351,"journal":{"name":"Colombo Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129215612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Financial Liberalization on Savings and Investment in Nigeria","authors":"Danjuma Ahmad, S. P. Premaratna","doi":"10.4038/cjmr.v4i1.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/cjmr.v4i1.38","url":null,"abstract":"In Nigeria, measures were taking by government between the period 1986 to 2005 to liberalise the financial sector as part of the overall structural adjustment programme (SAP) with the aim to promote economic growth and alleviate poverty. The financial reform assumes that deregulating the financial market will eliminate the distortion and fragmentation of the financial market. It will also improve the mobilisation of savings as well as efficiency in allocation of funds to viable investment projects in the economy. This in turn will help in accelerating economic growth. Literature in the area posits that liberalising interest rate and deepening of the financial market is growth enhancing. This hypothesis is tested by identifying two basics channel through which financial liberalisation is operational – savings and investment, and allocative efficiency. The analysis was carried out using macro data from Nigeria by employing Two-Stage-Least Square (2SLS) instrumental variable technique to analyse the data. Major findings pointed out that interest rate as determinant of savings is not statistically significant, and rising interest rate negatively affect investment growth. Secondly, investment follows the standard accelerator theory. Furthermore, growth in the stock of money is positively related with investment but statistically insignificant. Lastly, there is a considerable deepening in the banking sector, however, the capital market does not","PeriodicalId":269351,"journal":{"name":"Colombo Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Research","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126186150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}