Browsing by Author "Okafor, Godwin"
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Big Brother or Harbinger of Best Practice: Can Lecture Capture Actually Improve Teaching?
Joseph‐Richard, P.; Jessop, T.; Okafor, Godwin; Almpanis, T.; Price, D. (Article)Lecture capture is used increasingly in the UK, and has become a normal feature of higher education. Most studies on the impact of lecture capture have focused on benefits to student learning, the flipped classroom or ... -
Dynamic linkage between Economic growth and human development: time series evidence from Nigeria
Chikalipah, S.; Okafor, Godwin (Article)A consensus among academics and policymakers holds that investing in human development not only improves lives, but also by itself promotes stellar economic growth. We investigate these claims by estimating the two-way ... -
FDI Determinants in Least Recipient Regions: The Case of Sub‐Saharan Africa and MENA.
Okafor, Godwin; Piesse, J.; Webster, A. (Article)This paper explores the determinants of FDI into FDI least recipient regions. Panel data for 20 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and 11 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries are used for the period 2000 – 2012. Findings ... -
The impact of political instability on the economic growth of ECOWAS member countries
Okafor, Godwin (Article)This study contributes to the literature on political instability and economic growth by specifically investigating the impact of political instability on the economic growth of member countries of the Economic Community ... -
Internet Adoption and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Okafor, Godwin (Article)Information and communication technology adoption (ICT), and its penetration and use, in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have steadily grown since the turn of the century. Subsequently, studies have sought to investigate several ... -
The Motives for Inward FDI into Sub-Saharan Africa Countries
Webster, A.; Piesse, J.; Okafor, Godwin (Article)This study contributes to the FDI literature by investigating the impact of all four locational motives of FDI in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries for the period 1996 – 2010. To achieve this aim, panel data techniques ... -
Terrorism and Country-Level Global Business Failure
Tingbani, Ishmael; Okafor, Godwin; Tauringana, V.; Zalata, Alaa (Article)This paper contributes to the literature on business failure by investigating the relationship between terrorism and country-level global business failure by using a sample of 174 countries over the period 2009–2015. To ... -
Terrorism and Global Business Performance
This paper contributes to the literature on business performance by investigating the relationship between terrorism and global business performance at country level. A measure of a country’s distance from the frontier ...