https://j.ideasspread.org/index.php/rfm <p><em>Risk and Financial Management</em>&nbsp; (ISSN 2690-9790 E-ISSN 2690-9804) is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the&nbsp;IDEAS SPREAD&nbsp;in United&nbsp;States.&nbsp;<br> The<em> Risk and Financial Management&nbsp;</em>adheres to rigorous peer-review as well as editorial processes, and publishes leading research on financial management and risk management. The goal of&nbsp;<em>RFM</em>&nbsp;is to enable rapid dissemination of high impact research to the scientific community.</p> en-US <p>Copyright for this article is retained by the author(s), with first publication rights granted to the journal.<br>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).</p> rfm@ideasspread.org (Lan Smith) service@ideasspread.org (Technical Support) Thu, 26 Mar 2020 11:40:46 +0800 OJS 3.1.0.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://j.ideasspread.org/index.php/rfm/article/view/483 <p>Over the years, the rising unfriendly macroeconomic environment is a contributing factor to the infant and under-five mortality rate in Nigeria. The study investigated the role of macroeconomic conditions on infant and under-five mortality rates in Nigeria for the period 1986–2017 using the fully modified OLS technique. The results show that the unfriendly macroeconomic policy environment such as the instability of inflation rate, unemployment and exchange rate enhanced the increased level of infant and under-five mortality rate in Nigeria.&nbsp; The study recommends that the authority should adopt more pro-growth policies that can ensure and maintain sound domestic macroeconomic policies to stem child mortality rate and promote economic growth through investment in food production and related investment in health. Most importantly, macroeconomic policies and institutions are highly needed to be strengthened in order to have a friendly macroeconomic environment which will in turn improve the population health of the country which can enhance sustainable and long term dietary as well as nutritional pattern of young age children and adult.</p> Rahman Olanrewaju Raji ##submission.copyrightStatement## http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://j.ideasspread.org/index.php/rfm/article/view/483 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0800 https://j.ideasspread.org/index.php/rfm/article/view/481 <p>This study provides an overall view of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows for the Arab region during the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008. There a little attention has given to the FDI flows in Arab region as the main focus was on the countries where the GFC started. The objective of this study is to compare and analyses the global FDI inflows with Arab region during the GFC. It attempts to answer the question whether the FDI flow into Arab region was impacted immediately by the GFC? It provides a case analysis of FDI inflows in the Arab countries to test what is the reduction in these inflows? Are FDI inflows hold due to the assumption of that the region is considered as preferable distention to FDI? The study gives better understanding to the share of each individual Arab country over the period. It also introduces a case analysis of FDI inflow for Arab countries then compare it with other global regions.</p> Omar Ghazy Aziz ##submission.copyrightStatement## http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://j.ideasspread.org/index.php/rfm/article/view/481 Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0800