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The Politics of Private Sector Investment in Local Economic Development: Local Governance and Regulatory Frameworks in Gurage Zone, Ethiopia
Wassihun Gebreegiziaber Woldesenbet,
Tilahun Tadesse Worku,
Bekalu Wachiso Gichamo
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2020
Pages:
1-11
Received:
15 July 2019
Accepted:
7 August 2019
Published:
9 January 2020
Abstract: Private investment is one of the prominent approaches to local economic development. The focus of this study is the exploration of the political elements of private investment in local economic development activities in the backgrounds of local governance. A combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods challenged the idea that private investment, considered economically, contributes to local economic development, an assumption that isolates private investment from the surrounding environments. Therefore, the study found out that private investment in Gurage Zone has been showing an inconsistent trend in terms of its contribution to land development, employment creation, and capital generation. This inconsistency is reflective of the nature of private investment which is a depoliticized, delocalized, and de-bureaucratized program highly isolated from the local realities. This again is related to the detrimental effect of local governance structure which is fragmented, asymmetrical, poorly structured, and de-contextualized, thereby creating weak-bureaucratic services, inefficient partnership, and poorly structured governance platforms. Thus, the study concludes that private investment in Gurage zone is being restrained because of its isolation from the local realities, political imperatives, bureaucratic networks, and resource contexts, supposed to be controlled by the local governments.
Abstract: Private investment is one of the prominent approaches to local economic development. The focus of this study is the exploration of the political elements of private investment in local economic development activities in the backgrounds of local governance. A combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods challenged the idea that priva...
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Privatization Modalities and Business Valuation: An Ethiopian Focus
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2020
Pages:
12-26
Received:
24 July 2019
Accepted:
7 January 2020
Published:
4 February 2020
Abstract: This paper has been ignited as a result of the current privatization movement by the Ethiopian government straight away as soon as the new prime minister comes into the position. The main motive of the government, behind the decision to privatize public enterprise to the local and foreign investor, was, inter alia, to limit government’s participation in the manufacturing and service sectors of the economy so as to transfer the scarce resources from owned by inefficient public sector enterprises to efficient private entrepreneurs and to re-deploy such resources in higher prioritize and efficient private enterprises and to meet poverty reduction programs in a given economy, and thereby increase foreign exchange and alleviate the problem of good governance. In line with this agenda, various privatization modalities, theoretical debates, and arguments on such a privatization, and the various business valuation approaches have been critically reviewed via considering the current political and economic conditions of the country, and finally, contextual privatization strategies and business valuation methods have been implied at least to fairly redistribute wealth, institutionalize stock market and mitigate the common mistakes in the process of privatization of such public companies.
Abstract: This paper has been ignited as a result of the current privatization movement by the Ethiopian government straight away as soon as the new prime minister comes into the position. The main motive of the government, behind the decision to privatize public enterprise to the local and foreign investor, was, inter alia, to limit government’s participati...
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Profit Maximization in a Product Mix Bakery Using Linear Programming Technique
Kayode Olakunle Oluwaseyi,
Atsegameh Elizabeth,
Omole Ezekiel Olaoluwa
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2020
Pages:
27-30
Received:
10 May 2019
Accepted:
13 January 2020
Published:
6 March 2020
Abstract: Linear Programming is one of the optimization techniques in finding solutions to managerial decisions making. Linear Programming is a widely used mathematical modelling technique designed to help managers in planning and decisions making relative to resource allocation. This study applied linear programming technique to decision making problem in university of Benin Bakery, Benin city, Edo state, Nigeria, and intended to determine the quantity of Bread that the firm should produce in a day to maximize profit, subject to constraints in the production process. Data on quantity of major raw material used in production of large, medium and small size bread per day were collected from the extract of the financial record of the bakery. The problem was formulated in mathematical term and solved using computer software known as Linear Programming Solver (LIPS). The solution obtained from a single iteration showed that 667 units of extra- large bread should be produced daily for the firm to achieve a maximum daily profit of #100,000. It is therefore recommended that the firm should concentrate more on production of extra- large bread to obtain maximum profit of #100,000 per day.
Abstract: Linear Programming is one of the optimization techniques in finding solutions to managerial decisions making. Linear Programming is a widely used mathematical modelling technique designed to help managers in planning and decisions making relative to resource allocation. This study applied linear programming technique to decision making problem in u...
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Influence of Factor Mobility on Chinese Multinationals’ ODI Mode Choice: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2020
Pages:
31-39
Received:
16 February 2020
Accepted:
26 February 2020
Published:
6 March 2020
Abstract: ODI by Chinese multinationals’ has grown rapidly in recent decades, and the ratio of M&A investment to aggregate ODI flow has demonstrated a “W” shape history, while the global ratio has demonstrated an “M” shape history. The recent theoretical progress in new century supplied a new perspective focused on firm heterogeneity such as the firm’s factor mobility to explain the diversity of international organization of production choices including the mode choice of ODI. Respectively, we supposed three hypothesizes based on theoretical discussion with combining the new-classical international direct investment theory and the frontier theoretical progress of international organization of production. We use micro level data for more than 2200 large scale ODI transactions by Chinese multinationals to study the relationship between cross-border factor mobility and ODI mode choice with a panel logit estimation. Our results testified all three hypothesizes supposed. Firstly, the results provide evidence that cross-border factor mobility affects the choice between Greenfield and M&A ODI. Secondly, the results also support the view that ODI mode choices are influenced by characteristics of host economies. The ease of registering property has a positive effect on the probability of choosing Greenfield ODI, while the ease of obtaining credit, enforcing contracts and trading across borders has a positive effect on the probability of choosing M&A. Finally, we find that the probability of choosing M&A increases when a multinational belongs to an industry that relies on obtaining natural resources or investment takes place in an economy with high labor costs. In general, our research shows that ODI mode choices by Chinese multinationals varies across host countries and industries due to the internal trade-off impact from the firm heterogeneity such as factor mobility. Moreover, at the end we discussed two short boards of our empirical process due to the data shortage problem and take a positive prospect for the following research.
Abstract: ODI by Chinese multinationals’ has grown rapidly in recent decades, and the ratio of M&A investment to aggregate ODI flow has demonstrated a “W” shape history, while the global ratio has demonstrated an “M” shape history. The recent theoretical progress in new century supplied a new perspective focused on firm heterogeneity such as the firm’s facto...
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