Climate Change: Space Technology and Climate-Resilient Development in Nigeria

Okon, Emmanuel Okokondem

doi:10.33094/7.2017.11.6.19

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“…For this purpose, he incorporated a cross-sectional data of 84 non-Communist developing economies and reported that no significant relationship is found among ECNG and GSP on human capital, in addition, limited impact is observed for GSP on the actual health and education level. Similar findings were obtained by another study (Okon, 2017;Nishiyama, 2019), who employed Granger causality test for determining the nature of causality between real per capita GDP growth rate and GSP in GDP, and used time series analysis for the statistical estimation. The results of Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model indicated that GSP has no significant impact on the per capita real output growth.…”

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The Impact of Government Expenditures, Gross Capital Formation, Trade, and Portfolio Investment on the Economic Growth of Asean Economies

Jermsittiparsert¹,

Saengchai²,

Boonrattanakittibhumi³

et al. 2019

JSSI

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This paper examines the impact of public spending on ASEAN-5 countries economic development. The purpose of this study is to provide evidence, reference and contribute to the knowledge about government spending and economic growth. This study involves ASEAN-5 countries. The countries are Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia. The countries are chosen because there is a lack of study of government expenditure for ASEAN-5 countries using panel data. The data covers from year 1990 to 2014. The data is retrieved from the World Development Indicators (World Bank). The dependent variable is gross domestic product (GDP). GDP is used to measure economic growth. The main independent variable is government expenditure. The other independent variables are gross capital formation, portfolio investment, labor, trade, total reserve and gross savings. A clear understanding about inter-linkages between government spending and economic growth will help the government in making better decision for the country. As ASEAN countries have responsibility for ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint 2025 to meet its objectives, ASEAN governments are expected to effectively monitor the public spending as fiscal instrument in stimulating economic growth. Government expenditure may become unproductive if misallocating and using it in excess. From this study, there is evidence that government expenditure has impact on economic growth. Future research is expected to expand the investigation to other composition of government spending such as education, defense and infrastructure expenditures instead of using general government final consumption expenditures.

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The Impact of Government Expenditures, Gross Capital Formation, Trade, and Portfolio Investment on the Economic Growth of Asean Economies

Jermsittiparsert¹,

Saengchai²,

Boonrattanakittibhumi³

et al. 2019

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“…Their discussion on guarantee focused on general matters without further elaboration on the guarantee in financial matters. However, this can help to conceptualise guarantee and its role in Islamic law, (Abd al-'Aziz al- Khayat and Ahmad, 2004;Okon, 2017) highlight legality of guarantee and the different points of view of scholars. They highlight guarantee in debt and multiple guarantors to debt.…”

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Revisiting the Concept of Legal Guarantee in Islamic Law for Structuring Islamic Financial Products

Issoufou

Abdullah

2019

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Purpose of Study: In the modern Islamic financial products and services, legal guarantee is becoming increasing important in the structuring of products, particularly those used in the investments. As a result of the increasing importance of the concept of guarantee, this paper specifically revisits the conceptual analyses of legal guarantee in Islamic law with a view to providing the basis for the use of this concept in structuring relevant Shari‘ah-compliant products. Methodology: The study adopts a comparative legal analysis of the views of classical Muslim jurists. The researchers examine the principles relating to guarantee, such as the meaning of guarantee, its authority, its pillars and conditions. Other principles include modes of guarantee and its objective. The paper also examines the principles and terms of guarantee necessitates an assessment of the effect of the guarantee contract on the contracting parties, particularly whether the guarantor has the right of recourse to the guaranteed person for a refund. The researchers adopt qualitative research methodology to analyse and examine the data. Results: It was found that although guarantee is permissible in Islamic law, it is not absolute. In fact, to make it more Islamically acceptable or Shari’ah compliant there are other terms and conditions that the contract has to fulfil especially by the guarantor, guaranteed person as well as guaranteed asset. Results: Legal Guarantee is permissible in Islamic law to prevent harm that may happen to the traders and investors, and protect the public interest. Classical and contemporary Muslim scholars’ views are that guarantee is not limited to guarantee for debt, but extended to the guarantee for other commercial transactions like guarantee of future liability and physical punishment. Guarantee has its own pillars and conditions, which should be met in order for a guarantee contract to be a valid one. The researchers suggest to conduct empirical research in order to have a clear picture on the concept of legal guarantee for structuring Islamic financial products.

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“…Through, for example, remote sensing and Global Positioning System (GPS) data, the space industry helps to manage and sustain the natural environment, increases the mobility of people and products, and deals with health, safety and security (SANSA, 2011). It offers instant communications, enablesaccurateobservationandlocationofanyspot-onearthandempowerstimeous identification and addressing of economic and human catastrophes (Okon, 2017;Nagaietal.,2017).…”

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“…Thespaceindustryassistsinthemanagementandsustainingofthenaturalenvironment andresources.Itincreasesthemobilityofpeopleandproductsandsupportshealth, safetyandsecurity (SANSA,2011).Italsoenablesinstantcommunicationsandearth observation,thusenablingeconomicandhumancatastrophestobedealtwith (Okon, 2017). Society is reliant on space systems for many social benefits and economic endeavors-spacetechnologyispartofdailylife (Agbaje,2017).Industrializednations identifythespaceindustryasafundamentalandvitalinstrumenttoachievesocial, economicandforeignpolicygoals.…”

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Awareness of the Space Industry as a Career Opportunity in South Africa

Zuma

Mason

Maharaj

2019

International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development

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The South African space industry is not seen by young learners as a potential career. The objectives of this study were to identify: high school students' awareness of the industry, their perceptions of employment opportunities, and their knowledge of the industry's educational requirements. A quantitative, descriptive survey with structured questionnaires was administered to 171 respondents. Purposive and quota sampling selected grade 10-11 students in rural, urban and suburban schools. Most respondents had some awareness of the industry, but had limited knowledge about career opportunities, especially in rural schools. Respondents were unclear about how and where to apply for space-related education. The space industry inadequately markets itself to students, so more outreach programs, sponsoring of science and technological projects, more scholarships, and encouragement of the Department of Higher Education to provide information about, and improve career guidance officers' knowledge of, the space industry are recommended.

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Climate Change: Space Technology and Climate-Resilient Development in Nigeria

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

The Impact of Government Expenditures, Gross Capital Formation, Trade, and Portfolio Investment on the Economic Growth of Asean Economies

The Impact of Government Expenditures, Gross Capital Formation, Trade, and Portfolio Investment on the Economic Growth of Asean Economies

Revisiting the Concept of Legal Guarantee in Islamic Law for Structuring Islamic Financial Products

Awareness of the Space Industry as a Career Opportunity in South Africa

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