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In the emerging market economies the influencing power of different strands of ownership structure and ownership concentration on the risk-adjusted returns on assets and equity, dividend yield, earnings, and cost-to income ratio of listed deposit money banks has not been thoroughly investigated. The diminutive research and equivocal findings of previous studies on this subject create grounds for further investigation. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the extent to which these three constructs relate in listed deposit money banks an emerging market economy, Nigeria. Panel data multiple regressions were applied to data extracted from the annual reports from 2009 to 2020 to test the six hypotheses. The results indicate that the disaggregated ownership structure and concentrated ownership relate positively and significantly to the bank performance indices, thereby supporting convergence of owners and managers interests which reduces the agency problems and increases the financial performance of firms. The novelty of this study is the introduction of new indices for measuring performance, ownership structure and concentration which are total departure from the usual method in both emerging and developed market economies. Further research can be extended in other economies using the same computational methods.

Using panel data set for 3 selected textile industries in Kano State for the period 1985 – 2005 this study utilized Fixed Effects Regression Model (FEM) and Random Effects Regression Model (REM) to investigate on globalization and textile output in Kano. Results from this research reveal that electricity consumption has significant positive influence on textile output. Another finding of the research is that globalization and exchange rate of naira against United State dollar have negative but significant influence on textile output. The study therefore recommends that Nigerian government should take a second look at her membership of the World Trade Organisation (W.T.O) and selectively engage those policies that will promote her national interest, most especially the imperative need to protect the textile firms. As for the exchange rate, adjustment should be made in the level of the domestic currency based on the interactions of market forces that will facilitate appropriate pricing of the foreign exchange and enhance domestic products which enhance their competitiveness in the export market. Moreover, stable and reliable power supply is necessary to generate optimum production at lower cost so as to enhance utilization of idle resources, expand factor incomes, improve competitiveness and expand overall textile output.

AbstractRecent evidence suggests that women in high‐income countries desired to delay or forgo childbearing due to COVID‐19, yet there remains insufficient evidence of COVID‐19's impact on fertility desires in low‐ and middle‐income countries, particularly in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). We examined how quantum and tempo of fertility intentions changed in the first year of COVID‐19 and assessed the impact of economic insecurity and sociodemographic characteristics on these changes in SSA. We used longitudinal data collected among 14,053 women from Kenya, Burkina Faso, two provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa and Kongo Central), and two states in Nigeria (Kano and Lagos). Descriptive analyses and logistic regression examined overall changes and economic and sociodemographic factors associated with quantum and tempo shifts. At the population‐level, most women remained stable in their fertility intentions throughout the first year of COVID‐19. Despite widespread income loss, few women reported that COVID‐19 influenced their near‐term childbearing intentions. However, among women who changed their intentions in Burkina Faso and Kenya, income loss was associated with transitions toward wanting to delay or limit childbearing, particularly among the poorest women. These findings underscore the importance of accounting for context when anticipating the consequences of public health emergencies on fertility.

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