INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM: The effect of information technology on the operation of deposit money banks in Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. New and better information technology entails that banks can add the service ‘differentiator’ to their products in a way. However‚ enabling tools which developed information technology can provide will make a significant effect on the operations of deposit money banks in Nigeria . The key to efficient banking lies in maximizing
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IT COUNTRY STUDIED: NIGERIA INTRODUCTION Nigeria‚ officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria‚ is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory‚ Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west‚ Chad and Cameroon in the east‚ and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. There are over 500 ethnic groups in Nigeria of which the three largest
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ASEAN: The integration effect Author: Tim Burroughs Asian Venture Capital Journal | 12 Jul 2012 | 13:03 Tags: Asian development bank | Axiom asia private capital |Southeast asia The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is gradually bringing the region’s economies closer together. Private equity investors stand to benefit but not all businesses are suited to cross-border expansion The trouble-hit euro zone is hardly a poster child for regional economic integration‚ but it has yet to dent similar
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Unemployment Unemployment occurs when people are without work and actively seeking work. Africa is deeply affected with a high rate of unemployment especially among the youth. Africa is now having the most youthful population in the world with the youth covering close to between 60% and 70% of the continents population. This menace poses great threats to the strength and growth of Africa. Though unemployment is seen manifested all over the world‚ the case of Africa is very dilapidating to say
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Introduction The expansion of International Trade and the accessibility to foreign stock and debt market has given rise to an increase debate on whether or not there is need to be a global set of accounting standards. As companies compete globally for scarce resources‚ investors and creditors as well as multinational companies are required to bear the cost of reconciling financial statements that are prepared using national standards. It was argued that a common set of practices will provide a “level
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Effects of Sugar Revolution - Economic During the seventeenth century the pattern of the Landownership changed from small planters to wealthy individuals and the price of land became extremely high as sugar became more profitable in the Caribbean. Previously tobacco and the other cash crops such as corn were produced by small planters on relatively small plots of land between five and thirty acres. In the year 1645 there were approximately 5000 smallholdings in Barbados that mainly
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THE STUDY Oil price shocks poses a great challenge to policymakers and economist across countries‚ in terms of the increasing spate of fluctuations in oil prices‚ following the two oil price shocks in 1973 and 1979‚ which prompted a decline in the economic activities of major exporting countries. As a result several attentions have been made to study the relationship between oil price shocks‚ stock returns and other macroeconomic variables. Sadorsky (1996) explained that high oil prices reduced output
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The national unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent in October the lowest level of unemployment since May 2001. This is a sign of unexpected strength in the job market. [The unemployment rate is based on a survey of households‚ rather than the survey of employers used to calculate the payroll number. Unemployment does not include full-time students‚ the retired‚ children‚ or those not actively looking for a paying job.] The unemployment level is defined as the labor force minus the number of people
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good news for you: according to the New York Times‚ the unemployment rate in America dropped to 7.7% which is the lowest rate in four years. But is this rate low enough? The answer is no. The labor market is far from recovery. There are around 11 million people who still need jobs. Throughout American history of unemployment‚ The United States has experienced 11 recessions since the end of the postwar period in 1948. The U.S. unemployment rate rose steadily from 5% in January 2008 to a peak of
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Economic effects of diabetes on the elderly Diabetes has been described‚ by doctors‚ as a metabolic disease in which the patient has high blood glucose (blood sugar)‚ either because insulin production is inadequate‚ or because the body ’s cells do not respond properly to insulin. The overall management of diabetes for older adults would be the same as management for younger adults. Nutritional management is essential for older adults primarily to control malnutrition
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