Abstract: Economic development is an important issue in the 21st Century. The attention has therefore being focused on microfinance institutions and their contributions towards economic development. The main objective of this paper is to sample the opinion of professional accountants on the contribution of Microfinance Institutions credit towards economic development in Nigeria. The study proposes some credit strategies to be adopted by MFIs for them to be able to contribute meaning to the de...
This study examines the performance of the Nigerian money deposit banks for the period 2008 to 2012. Past studies attempted to measure the performance and efficiency of the banking industry using different kinds of performance indicators such as outputs, costs, financial measures, economic measures to include Total Factor Productivity (TPF) among others. But in this study, the researchers focused on another aspect by adopting the Performance Indexing Model developed by Suat, Dilek & Oya (2011...
An enduring outcome of observation processes is the enduring visibility of the need for the generation and expansion of employment. The current situations in Nigeria are underemployment, unemployment as well as insecurity. Among the broad causes of unemployment are absence of industrialization, poor agricultural system, high cost of qualitative education, rapid population growth, rural-urban migration in search for white collar job, mismatch between required and acquired skill and poor data b...
ABSTRACT Considering the invaluable roles and contributions of education to the economic development of a nation, funding of education to enhance meaningful, social and national development should be a national concern. This paper attempts to examine the managerial efforts and efficiency performance of revenue generation efforts of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) by highlighting some of the problems facing funding education in Nigeria’s Higher Institutions. To achie...
