Dr. Murat AKYUZ

 Tatars and Arabs in Adam Smith's the Wealth of Nations Assoc. Prof. Bilal ÇELİK Assoc. Prof. Murat AKYÜZ Prof. Alpaslan TOKER  Abstract In his book, The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith socio-economically made references to social, political, administrative, judicial, cultural, military, religious, and historical activities and situations of some civilizations and nations that existed from the first age until the time he wrote this work. He similarly spoke of Arabs and Tatars as simple, frugal, and warrior nations that remained stranded in the shepherd era, which was one of the sociological stages of society. He discussed Arabs and Tatars, who have played a very important role in history, in several places, mostly and generally in connection with the above issues and in some places independently. Therefore, in this study, we discussed Smith's views on Arabs and Tatars and his thoughts about them together. In this book of his, although he called Arabs and Tatars barbarians, Smith...

  Effect of Power Supply on the Performance of Abuja Electricity Company of Nigeria AKYUZ, Murat, Ph.D., ZACKARIAH, Ismael, OPUSUNJU, Michael Isaac,Ph.D.   Abstract: The study assessed the effect of power supply on the performance of Abuja Electricity Company of Nigeria (Kogi, Niger, Nassarwa and Abuja). The study adopted a survey research design. The population of the study consists of 6012 SMEs in Kogi, Niger, Nassarwa and Abuja. The study used Taro Yamane's formula to determine the sample size of 375 owners of SMEs in Kogi, Niger, Nassarwa and Abuja. The method of data collection used in this study was a questionnaire that was administered to the respondents. The statistical tools used is regression. The findings revealed that power supply as a negative and significant effect on the performance (growth) of SMEs in Kogi State, Niger State, Nasarawa State and FCT. Also, access to power supply has a negative and significant effect on the performance (growth) of SMEs in Kogi St...

     The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Rural Farmers’ Productivity in Abuja  Gylych Jelilov1*, Emaniya Sike2, Bilal Celik2, Murat Akyuz2  1Department of Economics, Nile University of Nigeria, Nigeria  2Department of Business Admin, Nile University of Nigeria, Nigeria   ABSTRACT The effect of the HIV scourge in Nigeria cannot be overemphasized, statistics shows that since the beginning of the epidemic about 2.8% of the population are affected. This seminar set out to investigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on the Agricultural sector using the rural farmers in Abuja as a case study. The paper confirmed that the impact of HIV/AIDS on the farmers and national economy is negative, substantial and, indeed, increasing. Data used in this work was sourced through group discussions, interviews, review of journals and field work. Upon analysis of data, findings showed that HIV/AIDS contributed to low productivity which ultimately culminated into food shortage. The study also ...