Investment
Dictionary definition gives investment as buying shares or
property with a hope of getting profit. Investment theory depends on two
factors namely return and risk.
Return on investment
The term return refers to income generated by the investment
plus any change in market price of the asset being invested, expressed as a
percentage of the beginning market price of the investment.
Portfolio investment
A portfolio is a combination of two or more assets or
securities.
CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1. Overview
The purpose of this chapter is identifying the appropriate
methodology that was undertaken for this study. This methodology demonstrates
the entire process of this study, as well as an analysis of the various
research methods employed during the conduct of the research. This chapter
highlights the study design, the sources of data, the research design, the
sample selection and size, data collection procedures. This, in different ways
enabled the study to achieve the research objectives and questions that were a
guide to the researcher in the study.
Additionally, the chapter examines the research methodology
suitable for analyzing the SSFR and the socio-economic development under the
dissertation. The methodology demonstrates the entire research process as well
as an analysis of the various research techniques that have been administered.
Besides, the chapter considers the research design and methodology on which the
dissertation is based. The chapter highlights the salient features of the
research methodology, while developing the underlying thesis of the
dissertation.
This section describes the practical procedures for carrying
out the study. It gives the details of the research design that were adopted,
population study, sampling procedures, data collection procedures, and the
final data analysis techniques that were applied. It gives the framework within
which data was collected and analyzed.
3.2
Sources and data collection
Primary and secondary data collection sources are popularly
applied in research, there are two main sources of data, that being; primary
and secondary data. Therefore, the sources of data for this study were of two
kinds; primary and secondary sources.
3.3.1.
Primary sources of data
Primary data is data collected from the
source and is often referred to as original data (Korthari, C.R 2004; p.31).
Therefore in order for the researcher to fulfill the objectives, which involve
analysis, the SSFR toward the socio-economic development of RWANDA and it was
important to undertake interviews. Conversely, Primary sources include
obtaining data at the primary level such as reports. The researcher collected
information afresh from the different stakeholders in SSFR such as experts, the
providers and the clients. In collecting those primary data, the methods of
questioning, observation and interviews were applied.
3.3.2.
Secondary sources of data
The only secondary sources relating to analysis of the SSFR
toward the socio-economic development of RWANDA, official reports from SSFR,
reviewing related literature on the SSFR performance and from libraries,
internet, other institutional annual reports, journals and any other form of
literature on the above study, and news paper articles. However, they gave
quantitative data and explained the crises that had occurred and what might
have gone wrong, but did not provide sufficient information on the causes of
SSFR toward the socio-economic of RWANDA. For this study a qualitative data
approach was thought likely to reveal a greater understanding of the casual
factors and therefore the research concentrated on the collection of primary
data.
Additionally, a literature search was conducted to investigate
the SSFR and the socio-economic development of RWANDA. Remarkably, in this
research, the application of secondary data enables the researcher to mitigate
the costs of time of gathering data; it is also an imperative need to relate
secondary data to what is obtaining in the field. Therefore this was achieved
though the administration of questionnaires and semi-structured interviews.
Other data had been collected from a wide range of written
documents, reports and research papers as shown in the bibliography. This
information helped the researcher to get, on one hand, a sound and wide
understanding about the different principles underlying the social security and
social economic development. They helped, on the other hand, to reach a real
analysis of the different trends that foster the present social security fund
of RWANDA movement to efficiency and sustainability toward the social economic
development of RWANDA.
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