Papers by SAMUEL OWEH ABANG
Global Journal of Social Sciences , 2024
Global Journal of Social Sciences , 2024
West African Journal of Sustainable Development
Background: Lecturers in higher education face significant pressures, often leading to burnout an... more Background: Lecturers in higher education face significant pressures, often leading to burnout and decreased well-being. Mindfulness-based interventions have shown promise in promoting resilience and well-being in various professions. Purpose: This study investigates the effectiveness of economic and mindfulness-based interventions in enhancing lecturer well-being and resilience within higher education institutions. Method: A sample of 360 lecturers purposively selected from different department participated in a randomized controlled trial. The intervention group received a mindfulness-based training program, while the control group received a waitlist intervention. Surveys measuring well-being and resilience was administered before and after the training program (intervention group) and at corresponding points for the control group. Quantitative and qualitative data analysis was conducted using inferential statistics to assess pre-post intervention changes within the intervention group compared to the control group. Qualitative data collected through open-ended surveys or interviews, was analyzed thematically using SPSS 25 to explore participants' experiences with the intervention and its impact. Findings: The findings reveal that lecturers' who participate in the mindfulness-based training program report improvements in well-being and resilience compared to the control group. In addition, it reveals that economic interventions such as Providing financial support for research projects, offering childcare education subsidies, among others help to reduce financial stress and improves the internal well-being practices of lecturers. Additionally, qualitative data reveal deeper insights into how mindfulness practices contribute to these positive changes. This research has the potential to inform the development of evidence-based strategies to support lecturer well-being and create a more sustainable work environment in higher education. Recommendations: The study recommends that institutions should occasionally organize a mental assessment training for lecturers' occasionally, while ensuring that the welfare package of the lecturers' are looked into so as to increase the level of their assertiveness in carrying out their duties.
West African Journal of Sustainable Development , 2024
Background: Lecturers in higher education face significant pressures, often leading to burnout an... more Background: Lecturers in higher education face significant pressures, often leading to burnout and decreased well-being. Mindfulness-based interventions have shown promise in promoting resilience and well-being in various professions. Purpose: This study investigates the effectiveness of economic and mindfulness-based interventions in enhancing lecturer well-being and resilience within higher education institutions. Method: A sample of 360 lecturers purposively selected from different department participated in a randomized controlled trial. The intervention group received a mindfulness-based training program, while the control group received a waitlist intervention. Surveys measuring well-being and resilience was administered before and after the training program (intervention group) and at corresponding points for the control group. Quantitative and qualitative data analysis was conducted using inferential statistics to assess pre-post intervention changes within the intervention group compared to the control group. Qualitative data collected through open-ended surveys or interviews, was analyzed thematically using SPSS 25 to explore participants' experiences with the intervention and its impact. Findings: The findings reveal that lecturers' who participate in the mindfulness-based training program report improvements in well-being and resilience compared to the control group. In addition, it reveals that economic interventions such as Providing financial support for research projects, offering childcare education subsidies, among others help to reduce financial stress and improves the internal well-being practices of lecturers. Additionally, qualitative data reveal deeper insights into how mindfulness practices contribute to these positive changes. This research has the potential to inform the development of evidence-based strategies to support lecturer well-being and create a more sustainable work environment in higher education. Recommendations: The study recommends that institutions should occasionally organize a mental assessment training for lecturers' occasionally, while ensuring that the welfare package of the lecturers' are looked into so as to increase the level of their assertiveness in carrying out their duties.
Asian journal of economics, business and accounting, Oct 19, 2022
Universal Journal of Accounting and Finance
Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting
One of the key objectives of the government’s economic policy is the prosperity and stability of ... more One of the key objectives of the government’s economic policy is the prosperity and stability of the economy. It intends to achieve this by increasing the economy’s competitiveness in the global economic arena. However, besides the macroeconomic policy, another key determinant of an economy’s competitiveness is the extent of its diversification, understood in this context to mean the degree to which the economy moves away from a dominant income-earning sector or product to other ones. In view of this, study examined the impact of monetary policy on economic diversification in Nigeria using data for the period 1991 to 2021 and the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. The study made use of diversification index as the dependent variable, money supply, real exchange rate, gross fix capital formation, labour force ,as independent variables. Secondary time series data were collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin, National Bureau of Statis...
Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting, 2022
One of the key objectives of the government's economic policy is the prosperity and stability of ... more One of the key objectives of the government's economic policy is the prosperity and stability of the economy. It intends to achieve this by increasing the economy's competitiveness in the global economic arena. However, besides the macroeconomic policy, another key determinant of an economy's competitiveness is the extent of its diversification, understood in this context to mean the degree to which the economy moves away from a dominant income-earning sector or product to other ones. In view of this, study examined the impact of monetary policy on economic diversification in Nigeria using data for the period 1991 to 2021 and the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. The study made use of diversification index as the dependent variable, money supply, real exchange rate, gross fix capital formation, labour force ,as independent variables. Secondary time series data were collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin, National Bureau of Statistics (various years/issues). Descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis based on the ARDL technique. Based on the results obtained, the study shows that money supply, gross fix capita formation and labour force affects economic diversification positively while real effective exchange rate affects economic diversification negatively. The study therefore recommends that monetary authorities should be encouraged to increase money supply as this has similar benefit of increasing private consumption. Furthermore, maintaining a favourable external reserves should be pursued by the monetary authorities.
International journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies , 2022
The process and objective of attracting new customers to the financial markets and replacing exis... more The process and objective of attracting new customers to the financial markets and replacing existing financial products with new and more relevant financial products usually affects the economic development in Nigeria. In view of this, this study examined the impact of financial innovation on economic development in Nigeria using quarterly data for the period 2009 to 2020 and the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. The study made use of Gross National Income per capita (GNIPC) as the dependent variable, gross fix capita formation (GFCF), Government Expenditure (GEXP), Inflation (INF), Domestic Credit to Private Sector (DCPS), value of payment channels transaction of Automated Teller Machine (ATM), Point of Sale (POS), mobile banking (MOB), and internet banking (WEB) as measures of financial innovation as the independent variables. The results indicated that economic development as a result of financial innovation is stable. It also shows that the coefficient of the intercept is positively signed and statistically significant and a unit increase in financial innovation variables would lead to an increase in economic development. Furthermore, all the variables are also statistically significant except WEB, with ATM and MOB having a positive relationship with economic development, while POS and WEB have negative relationship with economic development. Based on the results obtained, the study recommended that financial innovation should be sustained while measures and policies that will cause the improvement in the technological advancement of financial innovation should be encouraged and improved. In conclusion, from the result of the analysis keen on the relationship between financial innovation and economic development, implies that financial innovation has a positive effect on economic development. Thus as the use of financial innovation increases, it will cause an increase in economic development.
Keywords: Financial innovation, economic development, ARDL, Granger causality
International and Intra-national inequality in income distribution has continued to be a topic of... more International and Intra-national inequality in income distribution has continued to be a topic of interest to development economists and policy makers over the past three decades. This paper presents data for national income per capita of twenty selected African countries compiled by the World Bank group over a period of twenty years. The purpose of this paper is to study critically the factors that hindered African countries at the tail of the elephant chart from growing using recalculated growth rates and time series data from the World Bank. We employed both descriptive and quantitative analysis in examining the validity of the claim by the proponents of the elephant chart, who claimed that African countries did not benefit from globalization. The selected countries were divided into four income groups low income, lower middle income, upper middle income and high income groups as classified by the World Bank. Our findings show’s that contrary to the claim by the elephant chart au...
International journal of research and scientific innovation , 2020
International and Intra-national inequality in income distribution has continued to be a topic of... more International and Intra-national inequality in income distribution has continued to be a topic of interest to development economists and policy makers over the past three decades. This paper presents data for national income per capita of twenty selected African countries compiled by the World Bank group over a period of twenty years. The purpose of this paper is to study critically the factors that hindered African countries at the tail of the elephant chart from growing using recalculated growth rates and time series data from the World Bank. We employed both descriptive and quantitative analysis in examining the validity of the claim by the proponents of the elephant chart, who claimed that African countries did not benefit from globalization. The selected countries were divided into four income groups-low income, lower middle income, upper middle income and high income groups as classified by the World Bank. Our findings show's that contrary to the claim by the elephant chart authors that countries at the tail (including African countries) did not benefit from globalization. On the contrary, African countries recorded significant growth brought about by globalization.
Drafts by SAMUEL OWEH ABANG
West Africa Journal of Sustainable Development, 2024
Background: Lecturers in higher education face significant pressures, often leading to burnout an... more Background: Lecturers in higher education face significant pressures, often leading to burnout and decreased well-being. Mindfulness-based interventions have shown promise in promoting resilience and well-being in various professions. Purpose: This study investigates the effectiveness of economic and mindfulness-based interventions in enhancing lecturer well-being and resilience within higher education institutions. Method: A sample of 360 lecturers purposively selected from different department participated in a randomized controlled trial. The intervention group received a mindfulness-based training program, while the control group received a waitlist intervention. Surveys measuring well-being and resilience was administered before and after the training program (intervention group) and at corresponding points for the control group. Quantitative and qualitative data analysis was conducted using inferential statistics to assess pre-post intervention changes within the intervention group compared to the control group. Qualitative data collected through open-ended surveys or interviews, was analyzed thematically using SPSS 25 to explore participants' experiences with the intervention and its impact. Findings: The findings reveal that lecturers' who participate in the mindfulness-based training program report improvements in well-being and resilience compared to the control group. In addition, it reveals that economic interventions such as Providing financial support for research projects, offering childcare education subsidies, among others help to reduce financial stress and improves the internal well-being practices of lecturers. Additionally, qualitative data reveal deeper insights into how mindfulness practices contribute to these positive changes. This research has the potential to inform the development of evidence-based strategies to support lecturer well-being and create a more sustainable work environment in higher education. Recommendations: The study recommends that institutions should occasionally organize a mental assessment training for lecturers' occasionally, while ensuring that the welfare package of the lecturers' are looked into so as to increase the level of their assertiveness in carrying out their duties.
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Papers by SAMUEL OWEH ABANG
Keywords: Financial innovation, economic development, ARDL, Granger causality
Drafts by SAMUEL OWEH ABANG
Keywords: Financial innovation, economic development, ARDL, Granger causality