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Dragon Meets Camel: An Exploration of China’s Engagement with Eritrea 龙遇见骆驼:中国与厄立特里亚交往的探索

Journal of Social and Development Sciences Pub Date : 2022-02-22 DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v12i4(s).3267

Fikresus Amahazion

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An Investigation into the Nexus between Fiscal Policy, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Nigeria 尼日利亚财政政策、外国直接投资与经济增长关系研究

Journal of Social and Development Sciences Pub Date : 2022-02-22 DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v12i4(s).3259

Patrick Ologbenla

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Exchange Rate and Stock Price Nexus: Evidence from Ghana 汇率和股票价格关系:来自加纳的证据

Journal of Social and Development Sciences Pub Date : 2022-02-22 DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v12i4(s).3260

Peter Arhenful, R. Fosu, Mathew Owusu-Mensah

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Posters and Development: A Case Study of Cell Phone Posters in the Rural Congo 海报与发展:以刚果农村手机海报为例

Journal of Social and Development Sciences Pub Date : 2022-02-22 DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v12i4(s).3241

Sylvain K. Cibangu

{"title":"Posters and Development: A Case Study of Cell Phone Posters in the Rural Congo","authors":"Sylvain K. Cibangu","doi":"10.22610/jsds.v12i4(s).3241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22610/jsds.v12i4(s).3241","url":null,"abstract":"One of the benchmarks of the information age often forgotten is the proliferation of posters or billboards in and around workplaces, neighborhoods, airports, shopping centers, restaurants, theaters, libraries, schools, etc. More interestingly, through cell phones, posters are rapidly entering rural areas in developing countries. Although these posters come with specific messages and graphics – continually upgraded and tailored to people’s attention -- they hardly undergo scientific inquiry in circles concerned with information and communication technologies [ICTs]. The lack of attention raises questions on the role of information systems and related wireless devices being deployed in developing countries. The present paper aimed to canvass cell phone posters and unbundle the underlying practices and routines. As well as positioning posters at the center stage of ICT research, the present paper applied critical discourse analysis to inquire into ways in which development was represented or effected among populations in the rural Congo. \u0000The paper determined that posters were not centered on local populations and their day-to-day struggles/needs, and that the information conveyed on posters was not geared toward the development of the world’s poorest. The paper crafted some paths for future work in ICT fields and cell phone bodies of work.","PeriodicalId":297443,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social and Development Sciences","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114526633","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}

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Media Ecology: The Competition of Local Private Television on Seizing Audiences for Broadcasting Sustainability in South Kalimantan, Indonesia 媒体生态:印尼南加里曼丹地方私营电视台为争取可持续性广播观众的竞争

Journal of Social and Development Sciences Pub Date : 2021-10-29 DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3183

Atika Rusli, Achmad Bayu Chandrabuwono, Muhammad Febri Rahmat Akbari

{"title":"Media Ecology: The Competition of Local Private Television on Seizing Audiences for Broadcasting Sustainability in South Kalimantan, Indonesia","authors":"Atika Rusli, Achmad Bayu Chandrabuwono, Muhammad Febri Rahmat Akbari","doi":"10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3183","url":null,"abstract":"Media ecology examined the interrelationships between the media and their supporting environment. This research article aimed to determine the category of life-support sources (niche breadth) and to measure the level of competition (niche overlap) of local private television in South Kalimantan in seizing for viewers. This research used a quantitative approach. Target audience data, as the main data, was obtained by data collection techniques in the form of a log book survey results or management estimates from each television. The collected data was processed using the niche breadth formula to determine the category of each television media, and the niche overlap formula to determine the level of television competition in seizing for its viewers. The findings showed that Duta TV was in the generalist category and Prima TV was in the specialist category. The niche overlap scores differed between a number of target audience types, where the level of competition in seizing for viewers between the two televisions was quite high in the gender category compared to the other four types of target audiences, namely age group, socioeconomic status, recent education, and occupation.","PeriodicalId":297443,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social and Development Sciences","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125283112","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}

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Top-Down Naturalization: Turkish Government Propensity and Syrian Refugee Attitudes 自上而下的归化:土耳其政府倾向和叙利亚难民态度

Journal of Social and Development Sciences Pub Date : 2021-10-29 DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3217

Musallam Abedtalas, Wissam Aldien Aloklah, Abdulhamid Alawak, Abdulnaser Aljasem, Rohat Sheikh ESMAEEL ZADA

{"title":"Top-Down Naturalization: Turkish Government Propensity and Syrian Refugee Attitudes","authors":"Musallam Abedtalas, Wissam Aldien Aloklah, Abdulhamid Alawak, Abdulnaser Aljasem, Rohat Sheikh ESMAEEL ZADA","doi":"10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3217","url":null,"abstract":"Naturalization takes place at the intersection between a host government's propensity to give citizenship and refugees' attitudes towards it. However, the naturalization of Syrian refugees, with its top-down approach, shows the possibility of a divergence between a government’s propensity and refugees’ attitudes, and that divergence may spoil the expected benefits. This study questions the factors that determine government propensity and refugees' attitude, besides the convergence and divergence between them. The regressions have been estimated using data collected from a sample of 296 Syrian students at Mardin University, Turkey. The findings of this study revealed a contradiction between attitude and propensity, although they share factors of education and the hosting context. While the indications of social and cultural integration have a positive effect on attitudes, they do not affect propensity. Besides the contextual factors of hosting province shape attitude and propensity. Moreover, the most important factor in deciding attitude is the perception of the costs and benefits of naturalization.","PeriodicalId":297443,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social and Development Sciences","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133530525","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}

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Migrants during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Discursive Class Formation of Returnee Expatriates COVID-19大流行期间的移民:归国侨民的话语阶级形成

Journal of Social and Development Sciences Pub Date : 2021-10-29 DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3190

K. Haque, Arafatur Rahaman

{"title":"Migrants during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Discursive Class Formation of Returnee Expatriates","authors":"K. Haque, Arafatur Rahaman","doi":"10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3190","url":null,"abstract":"Amidst the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, migrants are the most affected parts after the Health and economy. More than half a million migrants have returned from February to May 2020 to Bangladesh. The state and society have stigmatized returnee expatriates as suspected disease carriers. Some of them are being physically assaulted and humiliated by their neighbor and society. Researchers revealed a new dimension of \"Othering\" discourse; where consent of hate crime formed being solely blamed for bring coronavirus and ignoring mandatory quarantine period. The government officially stigmatized them by putting quarantined seals at their hands and hoisting red flags at their homes. Interestingly, we have found the distinction of stigmatization between returnee expatriates, where returnee workers were being humiliated rather than high-skilled returnee professionals from a so-called developed country. Returnee expatriates experienced a transformation of identity. Researchers argued about the discursive formation of a class of returnee expatriates who were once highly respected and spoiled of their identity as a probable source of virus carrier. Once labeled as a remittance fighter of the economy have to transients their so-called positions, and has to prove their worthiness as a citizen of the state, after starting the pandemic, governments and their developing partners were not humane, concerned about the returnee expatriates' social discrimination, risk of unemployment, uncertainty, economic crisis, and instability. Returnee expatriates' abandonment as a suspected carrier of the COVID-19 virus by the state and society should be worked out more comprehensively to protect them from social and economic exploitation.","PeriodicalId":297443,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social and Development Sciences","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126533000","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}

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Performance Measurement in Local Government: Institutional Factors 地方政府绩效评估:制度因素

Journal of Social and Development Sciences Pub Date : 2021-10-29 DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3208

Rabina Laila, Ermawati

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Competencies and Development Needs of Physician Managers in Nigeria: A Case Study of selected hospitals in Ibadan City, Oyo State 尼日利亚医师管理人员的能力和发展需求:对奥约州伊巴丹市选定医院的案例研究

Journal of Social and Development Sciences Pub Date : 2021-10-29 DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3088

G. A. Daramola, O. D. Awolusi

{"title":"Competencies and Development Needs of Physician Managers in Nigeria: A Case Study of selected hospitals in Ibadan City, Oyo State","authors":"G. A. Daramola, O. D. Awolusi","doi":"10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22610/jsds.v12i2(s).3088","url":null,"abstract":"The physician is traditionally the head of the medical team. To be an effective and efficient team leader is not innate but requires acquiring some competencies. The medical school curriculum was deficient in this regard hence the need for acquisition of these skills through training. Consequently, the present study aims to assess the influence of leadership competencies and Development Needs on the job performance of Physician Mangers. A cross-sectional survey was distributed among Physician Managers in various hospital types that were purposefully selected. Ten Physician Managers were also interviewed for in-depth information of skills they require to perform well. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to summarize the items of the questionnaire at 5% level of significance and to determine if a significant difference existed between groups of Physician managers. Results show that possessing the competencies; communication and relationship management, leadership and business skills and knowledge do influence the job performance of Physician Mangers. There was a significant difference between physicians that had formal training in management and those that had none in the communication and professionalism domains. Seven Physician Managers from different types of hospitals were interviewed, two of them females. They had been in managerial positions from 6months to 34 years. They all emphasised communication and leadership skills as important competencies for every physician manager. They all also suggested that management training must be introduced either during undergraduate or postgraduate training and that physician as head of the medical team require regular management update training.","PeriodicalId":297443,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social and Development Sciences","volume":"07 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129743524","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}

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Effect of Interest Rate on Stock Prices in Ghana 利率对加纳股票价格的影响

Journal of Social and Development Sciences Pub Date : 2021-06-22 DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v12i1(s).3187

Peter Arhenful, A. Yeboah, Kofi Sarfo Adjei

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