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{"title":"Research on the Remedy System in China’s Government Procurement Contract Awarding Phase","authors":"F. Cao, Jiang Huang","doi":"10.11648/j.jim.20180702.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jim.20180702.13","url":null,"abstract":"Government procurement regulations require efficient implementation and remedy systems to achieve the goals of public procurement and protect the suppliers’ business opportunities. In the phase of awarding public procurement contracts, the establishment of a more independent and professional organization will increase the authority, credibility, and efficiency of dispute resolution in complaint processing. In order to protect the rights and interests of the participants, the public procurement suspension procedures should be further improved; the application of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system such as mediation, arbitration, etc, should be encouraged. When a supplier claims damages for losses due to illegal activities, it should use a more diversified dispute resolution mechanism. The remedy system in the awarding phase of public procurement contracts can enable China’s public procurement system to better meet the needs of the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) and enable Chinese companies to participate in international competition fairly and effectively. China should establish professional and independent complaints resolving institutions. Improve the suspension procedures for the dispute settlement in the Public Procurement contract awarding phase.","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48865348","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":"Employees’ Satisfaction of Government and Non-Government Banks in Tangail City, Bangladesh","authors":"Sayed Mohibul Hossen, Ridwana Chowdhury","doi":"10.11648/j.jim.20180702.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jim.20180702.12","url":null,"abstract":"Employees' satisfaction is directly related to their dedication and performance, and customers' satisfaction. Satisfied employees’ put their best effort into building and maintaining successful relationship between the bank and its customers. The present study attempts to identify the key facets contributing to employees' satisfaction in banks and to make a comparative analysis of employees' satisfaction in different ownership structures such as government banks and non-government banks of a small town in Bangladesh. Primary data was used in the study and the sample size of the study was 102 employees from these two sectors of banks situated in Tangail city. Factors including salary of employees, performance appraisal system, promotional strategies, employee’s relationship with management and other co- employees, training and development program, influence of higher authority and working hours are found important for improving job satisfaction of bank employees in Tangail. By the analysis we have found that association between employees’ job satisfaction and their Opportunity to take part in training, courses & workshops, involvement in decision making, company’s behavior as well as company’s well treatment and opinion on Career appointments are significant. Increase in level of these factors improves overall satisfaction of employees which is identified by using statistical techniques.","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41317162","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":"Improving the Health Workforce Distribution in Remote and Rural Areas of Ethiopia: An Evidence-Based Policy Brief","authors":"Serebe Abay, A. Dibaba, Y. Gebreyohannes, Desalegn Ararso, F. Mengistu, M. Hadis","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20180702.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20180702.11","url":null,"abstract":"Human Resources for Health (HRH) constitute the most vital component of health systems. However, the HRH picture of Ethiopia has remained critically low and characterized by geographic mal-distribution. This brief aimed to show the major causes for poor health workforce distribution and to suggest possible policy options. We reviewed relevant evidence describing the problem and feasible options to address the problem, the barriers to implement those options, and implementation strategies to address these barriers. We searched electronic databases of systematic reviews and supplemented with local evidences. In our review, we found different options that help to improve health workforce distribution in the remote and rural areas of the country. Systematic reviews on impact of task shifting, clinical rotations in rural areas during studies and financial incentives have shown favourable results that may lead to increase the number of health workforce working in rural and underserved areas. But none of the studies assessed the costs and cost effectiveness of the suggested options. Therefore, given the limitations of the currently available evidence, there is a need for rigorous evaluative research on the cost effectiveness of each option prior to widespread implementation.","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43346037","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":"Economic Analysis of Broiler Production in Lagos State Poultry Estate, Nigeria","authors":"O. J. Olorunwa","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20180701.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20180701.15","url":null,"abstract":"The study on the economic analysis of broiler production was carried out in Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative’ Poultry Estates, Nigeria. A two-stage sampling technique was employed for the selection of 100 out of 193 broiler farmers. The research findings revealed a male dominance (73%) in broiler production and an average age of 45 years within the range of 40 and 49. Also, majority of the broiler farmers (90%) were fully involved in broiler production, married (80%) and literate (90%), with an average farming experience of less than 9 years (81%), average household size of 4 persons (78%) and an average flock size of about 400 birds. It was found that over 80% of the cost of production was on the variable inputs while feeds constituted the highest percentage of the variable costs. This accounted for 54.86% of variable costs and 44.8% of the total costs. The result of the findings showed that a single broiler bird nurtured to maturity had a total cost of ₦1509.8 made up of ₦274.2 as fixed cost and ₦1235.6 as variable cost. The gross revenue per bird was ₦2169.99. The Net profit of ₦660.11 per bird was estimated and this gives a net margin-to-cost ratio of 0.44 which implies that a ₦1 investment in broiler production, all things being equal, would yield 44kobo in return. This indicates that the broiler in poultry estate were profitable. The maximum likelihood estimate of the stochastic frontier production function reveals that quantity of feeds and flock size were highly significant at 5% and 1% risk level respectively. Educational level of farmers and years of experience were the factors positively influencing the technical efficiency of broiler production in the study area. The estimated technical efficiency of the broiler farmers ranged from 57% to 96% with a mean technical efficiency of 74%. Disease outbreak, inadequate finance and high cost of feed were the serious problems faced by the farmers. It was therefore recommended that broiler farmers should increase their flock size, develop the skills of record keeping and feed formulation to reduce feed cost.","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44215131","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 Investment in Healthcare One Economic Development in Kenya","authors":"Jane Njoki Murango, B. Wabuyabo-Okonga","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20180701.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20180701.14","url":null,"abstract":"Economic development can generally refer to an ikncrease in a country's ability to produce goods and services identified by factors such as production, income and spending. Investment in health in this way becomes a significant variable for economic growth or development since investments in different components of health can lead to improved human capital. Kenya has low investment in the health sector which may adversely affect economic development. The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of investment in health on the economic development in Kenya. The specific objectives were to investigate the effect of public investment in health, private investment and investment in health by international non-governmental organizations on the development of the economy of Kenya. A descriptive research design was used in this study. Secondary time series data for 32 years (1985-2016) was collected from Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), Institute of Economic Affairs (EIA), World Bank, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Devolution and Planning. Data analysis was conducted using Stata statistical software. VECM time series model was fitted to the data. Augmented Dickey Fuller unit root test and Johansen test of cointegration were conducted to ensure stationarity of the data. The study results suggested that both public investment in health (β = 0.1149; p 0.05). The study makes the following recommendations. First, the government should channel more funding to the health sector as the current funding of 3.4% of GDP falls below the 7% set by the Abuja Declaration in 2001. Secondly, private entities should be encouraged to increase their investment in the health sector in the country. Lastly, the ministry of health and other government stakeholders should partner with private health service providers and come up with a framework to ensure that private health sector increases its funding to fill up financial deficit health sector. This is because the research concluded that the private health has significant contribution to the overall performance of the health sector.","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42895041","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":"Sustainable Approach for Poverty Reduction in Rwanda","authors":"K. Innocent","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20180701.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20180701.13","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of smart solution is globally perceived as the process of enduring values in terms of its characteristics and meanings that are economically viable, environmentally friendly, socially acceptable, and humanly beneficial. The social, economic, environmental, and human sustainability is the best integrated approach in the poverty reduction. Though poverty remains global challenge, there is a need for sustainable approach reflected in the requisite capabilities, partnership features, and indispensible capitals for its reduction. In Rwanda, several challenges still retard all initiatives to fight poverty. These include shortage of household capabilities and indispensable as well as more private sector centered partnership for poverty reduction. But an integrated approach which treats environmental, economic, social, and technical aspects as one component is crucial for shared responsibilities of different parties in poverty reduction.","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44612037","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":"Goods and Service Tax in India: Basic Concepts and Features","authors":"Hajera Fatima Khan","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20180701.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20180701.12","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an analysis of the impact of GST (Goods and Services Tax) on Indian Tax Scenario. The Good and services tax (GST) is the biggest and substantial indirect tax reform since the year 1947. The main idea of GST is to take over existing taxes like value-added tax, excise duty, service tax and sales tax. GST will be levied on manufacturing of sales and consumption of goods and services and is expected to address the tumble effect of the existing tax structure and result in uniting the country economically. Its main objective is to maintain a plebeian between the basic structure and design of the CGST, SGST and SGST between states. GST is a new story of VAT which gives a widespread setoff for input tax credit and contains many indirect taxes from state and national level. The main aim of GST is to create a single, unified market which will benefit in the development of country’s economy. India is a democratic country and therefore the GST will be implemented parallel by the central and state governments respectively. In this article, I have discussed GST and highlighted on the objectives of it. Consequently, I also put a light on the possible challenges, threats, and opportunities that GST brings to strengthen the free market economy. Finally, the paper examines and draws out a conclusion.","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42394711","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":"Successes and Challenges in Industrial Clusters: Some Empirical Evidence from Wood Industrial Cluster in Kumasi, Ghana","authors":"M. Amoah, G. Enoch, P. Dadzie, Joseph Asomani","doi":"10.11648/j.jim.20180701.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jim.20180701.11","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined some successes and challenges of a wood cluster in Kumasi, Ghana. A concurrent mixed method comprising survey, regression analysis, and correlation analysis were adopted to probe into how the effects of interconnections among firms in the cluster, the successes chalked and the challenges firms face in the cluster. Results showed significant (p < 0.001) interconnections among actors contributed to significant increase in productivity, sales and profit margins of the firms. Majority (93.4%) of respondents affirmed appreciable increases in sales and profit margins demonstrating that the cluster has been a major driver of economic growth. Permanent site for the artisans and other actors was the major benefit, provided by the cluster. However, lack of access to bank loans, timber, and waste management facility, promoting and marketing of products are some challenges associated with the cluster. Interventions from government and other agencies are required to create the enabling environment to attract investors that can help in addressing the challenges so as to stimulate growth of the wood and furniture enterprises in the cluster as they have greater potential for Ghana’s economic development.","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42888959","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":"A Study on HR Analytics Transforming Human Resource Management","authors":"Asim Kumar Rajbhar, T. Khan, Sudhakar Puskar","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20170604.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20170604.12","url":null,"abstract":"Human resources have continually been the important asset of the organization. To have an aggressive aspect, employees ought to be handled as sources and accordingly with the aid of aligning human resource feature to the central business dreams, corporations can achieve achievement within the competitive marketplace. Human sources are always at the very center of the employer's fulfillment. HR analytic's performs a totally vital function in aligning the HR analytic’s with the general business strategy. HR analytics aids the HR managers to formulate the strategies which enable the corporation to benefit a top hand over its competitors. The papers analyze whether HR analytics is Transmuting the Human resource department and the HR managers. The study examines how HR Analytics facilitates the improvement of a group of workers overall performance in a corporation consequently growing the productiveness of the employees in turn growing revenue technology. The paper also consists of the case have a look at a technique which depicts HR analytics because of the slicing edge device for human useful resource management and not a mere hype.","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2017-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44480491","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":"Decentralization Education System and Its Effects on Teachers Performance","authors":"Sadia Shabbir, I. Ahmed, Muhammad Imran","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20170603.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20170603.11","url":null,"abstract":"In this world, just those countries have survived and contended with challenges which have a quality and sound training framework. The nature of training relies upon use of labor and inspiration level of organization and educators. The education system throughout the world has been changed by the passage of time. Unfortunately, Pakistan government not gives proper attention to the education sector. After the creation of fifty-four years of Pakistan the decentralization education system introduced by the military government and some power has been devolved to at local level. This study conducted in district Lodhran (Punjab). The qualitative study method and convenient sampling technique was used to get the data. The present study main aim to know how decentralization education system affects the teacher and school performance and what role of the politician is negative or positive. Finally, in conclusion putting some suggestions that how to make the performance of teachers fruitful for education system and how local representatives play their positive role to provide the standard education to people.","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2017-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42817147","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}