Agbor Meg Bags Doctorate In Business Administration With Distinction

By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe

Meg Agbor

The Director of Cameroon based internationally acclaimed, women-led Civil Society Think Tank, Changing Mentalities, Empowering Groups, CHAMEG; Magdalene Agbor has successfully completed her recent studies and bagged a Doctorate Degree In Business Administration.

Her new accolade was awarded by the Board of the Atlantic International University, Honolulu, Hawai, USA after obtaining an outstanding Grade Point Average of 3.85 on a scale of 4.

The elaborate study, it should be noted took the Civil Society giant four years of intensive course work.

Her thesis, “The Impact Of  Globalization Constructs On The Economic Variables Of Cameroon And China From 2013 To 2017” was validated by supervisors of high repute before declaring her successful and worthy of the Doctorate Degree In Business Administration.

Speaking to The Advocate Cameroon ,she said, she dedicated her work to the over 6000 Cameroonian children in the English speaking regions of Cameroon who were deprived of their education due to the Anglophone Crisis that commenced in Cameroon in 2016.

She further dedicated her work to her husband Sesekou, Dr. Jacob Agbor and her children, Alvin, Jacob junior, Edmund and grandson Demar for their financial and moral support.

The Civil Society heavy weight and Community crowd puller is also social entrepreneur with a lot of positive tales from those who have passed through her empowerment center.

She said her work; “The Impact of Globalization Constructs on the Economic Variables of Cameroon and China From 2013 To 2017” is available for exploitation by all and sundry.

Agbor Magdalene’s research studied the relationship between globalization and the economies of Cameroon and The People’s Republic of China (China) from 2013 to 2017.

Factors like Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Exports and Imports were primarily analyzed to define the current economic situation in these countries. 

Secondary source of data for the research were gathered for the time duration of last 5 years.

According to Agbor Magdalene, Globalization is the mantra to bring economic prosperity to all developing countries.

She said today, China has one of the fastest growing economies and has become one of the highest recipients of foreign direct investments (FDI), and one of the highest exporters of FDI to Africa.

Hence the study was intended to play a vital role in compelling the government authorities of Cameroon to focus their attention towards the economic and growth indicators of high importance.

This study examined the relationship or the impact of the globalization constructs of FDI, exports, and imports on the poverty, unemployment, inflation, and the GDP growth rates in Cameroon and China. 

The quantitative ex post facto study utilized five years (2013-2017) of annual secondary data from Cameroon and China to determine the impact of the economic globalization constructs on the economic variables of Cameroon and China. The research approach posed one main research question and 12 sub-research questions which provided structure to the main research question.

The goal of her research was to examine the relationship between the dependent and independent variables, 12 hypotheses were tested for Cameroon and China.

The research findings demonstrated that in China, five out of the 12 models studied showed that there existed a positive relationship between some globalization constructs and economic variables.

The study also revealed that there exist a significant relationship between the GDP growth rate and FDI, the inflation rate and FDI, the unemployment rate and imports, and the GDP growth rate and imports in China and that in Cameroon, there was no significant relationship found between the independent and dependent variables.

The implication of this study for Cameroon according to the Scholar, is that Cameroonians should have an understanding that globalization has become an irreversible phenomenon.

“Cameroon needs to make major improvements in their economic, legal and political institutions so as to become attractive to FDI. 

Cameroonian has for many years depended on taking domestic and foreign bank loans. To benefit from the impact of globalization, the country needs to stop depending on loans, and depend more on FDI by easing its licensing requirements, reduce its high taxes, create a fair and equitable judicial system, adapt the rule of laws, and work on eradicating the insurmountable amount of consumption which is now prevalent in the country.” Agbor Magdalene aka Agbor Meg concluded.