ACCESSING FINANCE FOR INNOVATIVE EU SMES – KEY DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES by Laura Vasilescu

“… Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in economic development, they offer the most economical use of capital in relation to job creation and provide the strongest channel for development and innovation. …”
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FIRM SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS AND DIVIDEND PAYOUT RATIO: AN INSIGHT OF QUOTED COMPANIES ON THE NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE by Oluwaseyi Ayodele Adedipe, Sunday Azeita Okoughenu

“…Hence, this study recommends that managers of Nigerian quoted firms should lower the amount of cash spent on capital intensity, labour intensity and R&D intensity so that the value of profitability will increase; and the same time, dividend pay-out ratio will equally increase. …”
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Surfing with the tide: Real estate as a hedge against inflation by Malović Marko, Roganović Miloš

“…After a multi-year period of low interest rates and monetary expansions following the so-called great moderation, the issue of how to protect capital from value erosion became highly relevant once again. …”
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Eucalyptus-based livelihoods: enhancing household food security and resilience in Northwest Ethiopia by Fasika Belay, Fasika Belay, Messay Mulugeta, Teferee Makonnen

“…However, households that own eucalyptus plantations demonstrate a lower index for human capital than those without eucalyptus plantations. …”
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Effect of Small and Medium Enterprises on Growth of Business in Kabale Municipality: A Case Study of Kabale Central Market. by Atukunzire, Pross

“…The study highlighted that the primary source of startup capital for many of these businesses was personal savings. …”
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The Linguistic Landscape of Ulaanbaatar: what Signs and People tell about by Erzhen V. Khilkhanova

“…The paper analyzes the linguistic landscape of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar in an interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological context: at the junction of social semiotics, ethnography, and linguistic landscape studies as a subdiscipline of sociolinguistics. …”
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ADMINISTRATIVE PREREQUISITES FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING OF SMALL BUSINESSES AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL by Natalia Koval, Oksana Kubai, Natalia Germaniuk

“…The differences concern: shares in authorised capital; average number of employees; amount of turnover. …”
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Application of EVA concept in business "SBB" limited liability company Belgrade by Bešlić-Obradović Dragana, Bešlić-Rupić Ivana

“…EVA is taxable profit less the total cost of capital (borrowed and owned). The contribution of the EVA concept is reflected by looking at economic rather than accounting profits. …”
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Does the Expected Teaching and Learning Take Place in Preprimary Grades in Zambezi Region, Namibia? by Кенет Нзвала

“…This understanding is crucial as a lack thereof may have negative effects on the country’s future possibly as a result of a weak human capital generated by the foundational phase of the country’s education system.  …”
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Factors Influencing Recentralization of Local Government Functions in Uganda. by Biryomumeisho, Stephen, Ocan, Johnson, Adyanga, Francis Akena

“…However, since 2003, the Central Government started reversing the policy in terms of decentralization of the appointment of Chief Administrative Officers and Municipal Town Clerks and of recent City Town Clerks (for new cities in Uganda) from the District Service Commissions (DSCs) to the Public Service Commission, recentralization of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) under the management of the Executive Director, Procurement of drugs from the district health office to the National Medical Stores (NMS), recentralization of the payroll and the recent recentralization of local revenue collection from LGs. …”
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Analysis of the Financial Reporting Techniques in Measuring Performance of Small-Scale Businesses: A Case Study of Central Division in Kabale Municipality. by Manige, Victor

“…The study findings on the levels of performance of small-scale businesses, return on investment of the business was efficient since this is the benefit to investment resulting from an investment of some resources and capital employed in the business was efficient to determine the level of performance of small scale businesses since the more capital one has determines the level of purchasing power and sales volume of the business. …”
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Influences of a Quasi-stationary Front on Particulate Matter in the Low-latitude Plateau Region in China by Wenxuan Fan, Jian Wu, Xiaopeng Li, Fangyuan Yang, Bing Chen, Jun Guo

“…When the KMQSF moved westward from the center of the LoLaP, the easterly wind transported PM to the western part of the region, which led to an increase in the mean daily PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations in Kunming, a capital city in that area; simultaneously, however, the PM10 and PM2.5 levels remained high in Guiyang, a capital city in the eastern part of the LoLaP. …”
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Mentoring student teachers within Ireland’s further education and training sector by Deirdre Tinnelly

“…This interpretivist phenomenological analysis (IPA) study is based on semi-structured interviews with four mentors, and was underpinned by Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, field, and capital. The findings suggest mentors perform wide ranging functions to support their student teacher, but not all mentors report actually benefit from performing the role.…”
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Designing a Policy Making Model in Iran' Sport with the Approach of Sport for All Development by Behdad Sadeghi, Rahmatollah Gholipour, Mojtaba Amiri, Marjan Saffari

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ABC model and the management of costs by Pravdić Predrag, Kučinar Rada

“…Linking the markets, capital and resources so as to thus ensure the highest yield is, In fact, the search for competitive advantage as a basic condition for survival in a market economy. …”
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Impact of High Interest Rates on the Performance of Small & Medium Size Enterprises: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality. by Niwenyesiga, Anita

“…However, this vital sector has been greatly affected by the high interest rates being charged by financial institutions on borrowed capital in Uganda. The main objective of the study is to assess the impact of high interest rates on growth and financial performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Kabale Municipality. …”
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Role of Financial Institution on the Success of Small-Scale Enterprises in Uganda: A Case Study of Lyamujungu SACCO in Kabale District. by Kyarimpa, Glorius

“…., employment and Economic Development, capital for Growth and Expansion. The study findings showed role of unsecured loans on the performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Lyamujungu Sacco and these are ease of Access to Finance, supporting Cash Flow and Working Capital Needs, encouraging Entrepreneurship and Innovation, fostering Business Growth and Expansion, enhancing Financial Flexibility, reducing Financial Constraints Beck, mitigating the Impact of Credit Rationing, encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation. …”
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PREEMPTIVE AND NON-PREEMPTIVE GOAL PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION OF THE CENTRAL STERILE SUPPLY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, IBADAN, NIGERIA by MOJISOLA BOLARINWA, KHALID BELLO, PAUL ADEOSUN

“…Data on six raw materials and four finished products were collected, in addition to their costs, demand rates, shelf lives, and available capital. The developed objective function of the non-preemptive model combined four goals: inventory cost optimization (highest priority), inventory turnover, service level, and delivery lead time. …”
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Impact of Youth Livelihood Fund on Economic Development of Youth in Uganda: A Case Study of Kamatojo ICT Project In Kabale Municipality. by Asiimwe, Bright

“…The government of Uganda has put in place strategies to enable its success whereby the government has redesigned the program and considered giving small working capital loans to prepared individual youth, presenting budget proposals for the projects chosen, and presenting group constitution as a requirement. …”
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NEODUALISMO VERSUS HETEROGEIDAD: el caso de la pequena producción agraria em la Argentina by Pedro Tsakoumagkos

“…Así pues, uma imagen alternativa del sector agropecuário argentino es caracterizada por tres rasgos: a) La pequena producción agraria em la Argentina – entendida como unidades familiares conacesso limitado al capital y estimado mediante la categoria censal de pequena explotación agropecuária – tiene uma presencia significatica em el agro del país. b) Las escalas económicas de las unidades familiares em la Argentina tienen uma pluri-insertabilidad em la producción agropecuária porque tienen tres tipos de inserción: unidades familiares capaces de autosostener um proceso de capitalización y modernizarse, unidades familiares com acceso limitado al capital aunque estén em el mercado o se capitalicen y se modernicen em forma parcial; y unidades familiares que aunque estén em el mercado se limitan a repoducir la família y la unidade u aún están em la pobreza. …”
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