This is our weekly chart feature, please ensure to leave a comment, and share your views on what the graph is showing. Additional Info: Public expenditure on education consists of current and capital public expenditure on education includes government spending on educational institutions (both public and private), education administration as well as subsidies for private…
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Starting a business in Jamaica vs USA, T&T, UK and Brazil
This is our weekly chart feature, please ensure to leave a comment, and share your views on what the graph is showing. Additional Information: Procedures - represents the total number of procedures required to register a firm. A procedure is defined as any interaction of the company founders with external parties (for example, government agencies,…
The Transfer of Governance Technology: Colbeck Water Users’ Association (WUA)
The problem/ Purpose To determine whether social capital as it relates to trust influences the successful transfer of participatory and transparent governance technologies in the Colbeck Water Users Association in Old Harbour, Jamaica. To determine whether greater success in the transfer of governance technology is related to stronger surrounding economy, and greater access to outside…
How Crime affect Investment in Jamaica: Study
Assessing the Problem: Puerto Rico, the Caribbean – Jamaica in particular – and other developing countries, since the 1980’s, have placed great emphasis on a ‘FDI’ led development strategy. This strategy is expected to increase capital formation and bolster production efficiencies through the transfer of new technologies and investment capital. The prevalence of Violent Crimes…
What’s stopping your Financial Success?
Purpose of Article: To highlight some of the main factors preventing achievement of goals To present plausible actions and recommendations to overcome above mentioned problems Discussion of Findings: By reading extensively, as well observing the habits of high achievers and those who fail to achieve, I have been able to identify some of the main…
Natural Disasters & Remittance Inflows: Jamaica’s Experience
Purpose of Study: To Quantify the effects of natural disasters on remittance inflows to Jamaica Data source: The researcher utilized quarterly time series data ranging from 1998 to 2010 2. The data was obtained from the Bank of Jamaica, EM-DAT and The Bureau of Economic Analysis in the United States. Results: The results indicate that…
Stock Market Performance & Economic Growth in Jamaica
Purpose of Study: To determine, if there exist a statistical relationship between the performance of the JSE index and economic growth (GDP) - Jamaica.To determine the the direction of the relationship - test to see if movements in the JSE cause GDP to change or the opposite. Data sources for study: The researcher utilized quarterly…
The Telephone Interview Questionnaire
Be Prepared to Interview Be prepared, Be very prepared. It is one thing to gather the courage to walk up to a perfect stranger, put on your best smile and ask them to fill out a questionnaire. It is a completely different thing to make a phone call to a complete stranger and ask them…
Questions for the Questionnaire
The following represents questions one should ask when creating a questionnaire. What does the question contribute? Each question included in the questionnaire, should contribute significantly to acquiring relevant information for the researcher. The questionnaire should be assessed prior, so as to ensure that all the questions present are relevant and if not, irrelevant questions removed.…
Questionnaire Design most important
Over the years doing data entry, data analysis and interpretation of results for students, lecturers and companies; We have come to concluded that questionnaire design is one of the most critical element of any survey type study (studies where questionnaires are used to collect data). The questionnaire can make or break your data analysis, so…
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