ビジネス＆財務ジャーナル

Ethiopia is believed to have the largest Livestock population in Africa. Dairy has been identified as a priority area for the Ethiopian government, which aims to increase Ethiopian milk production at an average annual growth rate of 15.5% during the GTP II period (2015-2020), from 5,304 million litters to 9,418 million litters. This study was carried out to assess Determinants of dairy product market participation of the rural households in the case of Adaberga district in West Shewa zone of Oromia national regional state, Ethiopia. The study took a random sample of 120 dairy producer households by using multi-stage sampling procedure and employing a probability proportional to sample size sampling technique. For the individual producer, the decision to participate or not to participate in dairy production was formulated as binary choice probit model to identify factors that determine dairy product market participation. Probit estimation showed that dairy product market participation decision was significantly and positively affected by age, education level, land ownership, adopting dairy technology and access to market information of households. The implication is that there was a requirement of the above mentioned elements which in turn increases level of dairy production highly. Therefore, local government should introduce integrated dairy sector into the area as well as enhances quality and standard control market information. Overall, the study area is agro ecologically suitable for livestock raring, specially milking cows.

The research aims to show the role of financial markets in providing the necessary funds for the development of the national economy by attracting foreign investment. Financial markets have played a major role in the global economy. The importance of these markets in the role played by the financing of the local economy by working on the convergence between groups that suffer from the financial deficit, and those who have the financial surplus and seeks to employ this money.

The economic scene has witnessed many changes, including economic globalization, which has become a major challenge to the global economies, and the most important manifestations, the liberalization of financial markets and the increase of capital flows, so took many countries, including developing countries interested in attracting foreign investment and benefit from the movement of international capital, To the role of foreign capital in activating financial markets and their reflection in economic development.

The research was conducted in the Iraqi Stock Exchange for the period 2010-2017. The research reached a number of conclusions, the most prominent of which was that the decline in oil prices in 2014 affected the movement of foreign and domestic funds in the financial market. The research also reached a number of recommendations, the most important of which is to develop the legal environment that allows registered and new companies in the stock market to increase their capital in order to attract domestic and foreign investments.