{"title":"Post-Colonial Perspective on the Discourse of andlsquo;Normative power Europeandrsquo; In the African-EU Relations","authors":"Gifawosen Markos","doi":"10.37421/2375-4389.2020.8.355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37421/2375-4389.2020.8.355","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to critically examine the concept of 'Normative Power Europe' and its role in (re)producing the dominant power relation between the EU and the African nations. In order to analyze the normative power thesis and its postcolonial implication to Africa this article introduces the Cotonou Partnership Agreement- the EU cooperation agreement with African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries-which included tight normative clauses and conditionality’s. The article argues that the meta-narrative of NPE and the normative clauses and conditionality’s in the Cotonou Partnership Agreement are reinforcing the unequal power relations that are resulted from the colonial rule in the African- EU relations through the practice of Orientalism. It farther reveals this meta-narrative produces and reproduces the representation of Africans as 'inferior' and 'deficient' which needs to be redeemed by the help of the 'superior' and 'capable' Europeans.","PeriodicalId":73758,"journal":{"name":"Journal of global health economics and policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72971795","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":"Impact of Fuel Price Control Policy in Mozambique from 2015 to 2019","authors":"F. Mahaluça","doi":"10.37421/2375-4389.2020.8.356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37421/2375-4389.2020.8.356","url":null,"abstract":"Mozambique, like any other country in the world that imports fuel, spends a lot of money, both from the state as well as from companies and families. Nevertheless, being subject to the vulnerabilities of the price fluctuations of this precious energy liquid in the international market, there is a whole need to guarantee stable prices in the domestic market.","PeriodicalId":73758,"journal":{"name":"Journal of global health economics and policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76384679","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":"McDonald's Japan: AR and IoT Marketing Strategy with Pokemon GO","authors":"J. Calvo","doi":"10.4172/2375-4389.1000332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4389.1000332","url":null,"abstract":"This business case introduces the marketing campaign launched by McDonald’s Japan in July 2016, using the new smartphone version of the popular game Pokemon GO, whose extraordinary success attracted the attention of social platforms, businesses, and academic audiences. The alliance between McDonald’s Japan and Niantic-Pokemon is a good example of the social impact of modern games based on geolocation and augmented reality, and how this can embody new business models and marketing strategies. For McDonald’s Japan, this alliance attracted a large number of new consumers to its restaurants at a trivial cost. The results for the company were immediate and significant, driven by the community of 3.4 million game subscribers in Japan: it received 1.5 to 2 million daily visits across its 3,000 locations, had an estimated sales increase of 22%, and earned an increase in market capitalization of 9.8%. This marketing strategy connected the underlying culture of the former players of the first Pokemon GO for Nintendo DS with the values of the McDonald’s brand, attracting to the restaurants a new segment of customers aged from their mid-30s to their 40s as well as their children.","PeriodicalId":73758,"journal":{"name":"Journal of global health economics and policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87954597","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":"Analysis of Information System Quality and User Acceptance on Internet Banking Industry","authors":"D. Wardani, Riskayanto","doi":"10.4172/2375-4389.1000331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4389.1000331","url":null,"abstract":"This research is conducted to elaborate and analyze what factors that can drive customer satisfaction and continuance intention in using internet banking. This objective is based upon the research program that discussing the motivation of internet users in visiting commercial content and made online transactions. However, still a little bit of commercial content visitors make payments via internet banking. The populations of this research are customer of Bank BCA, Bank Mandiri, Bank BRI and Bank BNI located in Jakarta and surrounding areas. Sampling was done by purposive sampling method and obtained a sample of 156 respondents. The variables used in this research were system quality, information quality, service quality, perceived usefulness, user satisfaction, subjective norms, and continuance intention. The method of analysis in this research is path analysis. The result showed that the information quality has no significant effect on user satisfaction. While the system quality, service quality, and perceived usefulness have a significant positive effect on user satisfaction. It means, if internet banking that has the high assessment of system quality, service quality, and perceived usefulness, then the customer satisfaction of internet banking is high. In addition, user satisfaction, perceived usefulness, and subjective norms have a significant positive effect on continuance intention. It means if customer's assessment of user satisfaction, perceived usefulness, and subjective norms on internet banking is high, then the intention of customers to continue using internet banking is high.","PeriodicalId":73758,"journal":{"name":"Journal of global health economics and policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82904362","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":"Rationalization Model for Market Economy Improvement in Indonesia","authors":"Yohanes Indrayono","doi":"10.4172/2375-4389.1000322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4389.1000322","url":null,"abstract":"The market economy works on the basis of the price mechanism, the balance point between the demand and the supply curve named equilibrium, any changes of demand and supply sides will automatically be corrected itself. Some of the key issues in economic improvement are: what and how much to produce, how the organization produces and the total output generated. The graph analyses study is made to analyses how to improve market economy in Indonesia. By developing the theory of Zairi, this article proposes effective bureaucracy support model, integrated economic model, and market economy improvement model. With effective bureaucracy support model, to eliminate deadweight loss which is not enjoyed by government, consumers, and producers, this study suggest that government should: 1) imposed tax on the basis of profit or income generated (direct taxes) and not on the commodity of goods traded (indirect taxes); 2) not enacts ceiling prices for goods and services. With integrated economic model, government should support international trading to enlarge economy size and to increase gross national product (GNP). With market economy improvement model, government should improve technology to used natural resources which can use resources efficiently and effectively.","PeriodicalId":73758,"journal":{"name":"Journal of global health economics and policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75359802","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 Future of the Real Estate Industry of Dubai: The Demand for Real Estates (2000-2020)","authors":"Abdulkarim Ali Dahan","doi":"10.4172/2375-4389.1000317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4389.1000317","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of this study is to estimate the demand for real estate (buildings) in Dubai and use this estimate to calculate elasticities and to forecast the demand in the coming years. I have constructed and estimated a simple econometric model. The model was simple due to severe data limitations on useful economic variables. Linear model was found to best fit the data on the demand for buildings in Dubai. All estimated coefficients are well determined at the 5% level of significance with signs expected by economic theory. The analyses showed that population and interest rate have no significant effect on the demand for buildings, while price and income have. The paper concludes that demand for buildings in Dubai grew very rapidly in the past and farther continues growth in the future. The total demand will increase from 8893 building in 2018 to 14328 building in 2020. Elasticities are less than one indicating an inelastic demand for real estates. This will not only require significant investments over the coming years, but will require more efforts by the Dubai government to prepare more affordable building blocks, especially for Expo 2020. Citation: Dahan AA (2018) The Future of the Real Estate Industry of Dubai: The Demand for Real Estates (2000-2020). J Glob Econ 6: 317. doi: 10.4172/2375-4389.1000317","PeriodicalId":73758,"journal":{"name":"Journal of global health economics and policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73029479","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 Growth of ECOWAS Countries and the Validity of Kaldor's First Law","authors":"Y. Keho","doi":"10.4172/2375-4389.1000291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4389.1000291","url":null,"abstract":"Kaldor's first growth law posits that the growth rate of an economy is positively related to the growth rate of its manufacturing sector. This paper tests the validity of this law for ECOWAS by controlling for both heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence. The results suggest that the growth trajectory of ECOWAS countries is consistent with Kaldor's first law.","PeriodicalId":73758,"journal":{"name":"Journal of global health economics and policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83987690","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 Effect of Capital Structure, GCG, CSR, Firm's Size on Market Value through Earnings Per Share in Banking Sector","authors":"K. Fauzan, Adi Kuswanto","doi":"10.4172/2375-4389.1000288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4389.1000288","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this research are to analyst the effect of capital structure, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, firm’s size on earnings per share and to analyst the effect of earnings per share on market value. The subject of this research is the banking sector entities listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the year 2008 and reported self-assessment of good corporate governance from the year 2008 up to 2015 also did not experience any losses resulting in earnings per share negative from the year 2008 up to 2015. The result shows that capital structure, good corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and firm’s size have influence on earnings per share. The relationship between capital structure with earnings per share inversely proportional. The relationship between the good corporate governance with earnings per share is directly proportional. The relationship between corporate social responsibility with earnings per share inversely proportional. The relationship between firm's size with earnings per share is directly proportional. Earnings per share have influence on market value. The relationship between earnings per share and market value is directly proportional. Earnings per share reflects the book value reported by the bank, the real value of the bank is the market value. It can be indicated that the capital market in Indonesia gives higher value to the bank due to the strength of bank income. If the bank has profits consistently will have a market value greater than the book value of the bank.","PeriodicalId":73758,"journal":{"name":"Journal of global health economics and policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72920933","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":"Dark Matter in the Enterprise","authors":"M. Vlček","doi":"10.4172/2375-4389.1000285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4389.1000285","url":null,"abstract":"Dark matter is a euphemistic notation stemming upon analogy with the interstellar dark matter and from its estimated role in functioning of the universe. In a certain exaggeration this is only an estimation of the author what is of course not generally accepted. There is even not any known concrete person accepting it. But it is not possible to exclude it. This dark matter – later on only DM – is a part of control evaluating dynamic of existence of the controlled (holistic) object and in a control of non-dark, normal, visible matter (NM) it proceeds on basis of its experience.","PeriodicalId":73758,"journal":{"name":"Journal of global health economics and policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87694717","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":"Factors Affects Investment Decisions of Enterprises into Vietnam's Economic Zones","authors":"L. Lan, N. Viet","doi":"10.4172/2375-4389.1000280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4389.1000280","url":null,"abstract":"Vietnam has 16 coastal economic zones (EZs) in operation. These economic zones have attracted more than 300 FDI projects with a total investment of over US $ 39 billion and 840 domestic investment projects with a total investment of nearly 566 trillion dong. However, the development of Vietnam's economic zones has not had the breakthrough as set out. Therefore, it is necessary to seek solutions to attract investment for the development of EZs. This paper uses a probit regression model to quantify the factors affecting the investment decision of the enterprise in the economic zone. The results of the study have described the characteristics of \"target customers\" who have a higher probability of investing in EZs than those of other firms. The results also show the factors that influence the initial decision. Private firms in order are (i) Competitive input costs; (Ii) Incentives (iii) local institutions; (Iv) Geographic location. Infrastructure and human resources inside and outside the EZ are not different enough so there is no basis for concluding the impact on the investment decision. Factors that have the opposite effect are communication and habitat. Based on the results of this study, the author proposes measures to attract enterprises to invest in EZ","PeriodicalId":73758,"journal":{"name":"Journal of global health economics and policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79813423","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}