ABSTRACT This study assessed the capacity of CSOs in addressing the problems of Most Vulnerable Children in Arusha municipality. Four research objectives guided the study and these included; the determination the functions of CSOs dealing with MVC in Arusha municipality, assessment of the capacity of CSOs in managing and taking care of the MVC in Arusha municipality, examination of the efficiency of the methods used by CSOs in identifying MVC in Arusha municipality, and examination of the re...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the contribution of pyrethrum production in improving the livelihoods of small scale farmers in Mufindi district. A crosssectional design was employed in this study and it adopted a mixed approach to collect both qualitative and quantitative data. Survey, interviews and documentary review methods were employed to collect information related to this study. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to obtain a sample of 80 resp...
ABSTRACT The aim of this research work is to examine 1he relationship between interest rate and stock market pe1formance in Nigeria from 1980- 2013 using market capitalization (MC) as the dep1111denvt ariable', ond others as explanatory variables which are all secondary data sourced from CB.' statistical bulletin and Nigerian Stock Exchange bulletin respectively. The study employed some econometric techniques for simplicity. The descriptive statistics was used to examine the trend of i...
ABSTRACT This study analyses the impact of education expenditure on unemployment growth in Nigeria from 1970 to 2016. Using Ordinary Least Square (OLS), unit root, cointegration and Granger causality test procedures, the descriptive statistics result indicates that all the variable have positive mean values. The standard deviation result indicates that the highest standard deviation is recorded by the TDEBT while the least standard deviation is recorded by UNEMPR. The regression result of th...
ABSTRACT Environmental challenges such as climate change continue to threaten human existence globally. This has necessitated renewed focus on some existing policies that by design or otherwise may counter global efforts at addressing these challenges. Various engineering solutions have been championed while economic and social development tools have focused on using various policy instruments to reduce the concentration of emissions in the atmosphere. One of such policies is the fuel subsidy...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the impact of external debt on economic growth in Nigeria for the period 1980-2012. Time series data on external debt stock and external debt service was used to capture external debt burden. The study set out to test for both a long run and causal relationship between external debt and economic growth in Nigeria. An empirical investigation was conducted using time series data on Real Gross Domestic Product, External Debt Stock, External Debt Payments and Exch...
ABSTRACT West African countries experience economic growth in terms of financial figures but the issue of non -inclusiveness of this growth in terms of human development is becoming worrisome. This study empirically examines the role of information and communication technology adoption on human development and the direction of causality between them using data for 15 West African countries (2004 – 2014) estimated with the system Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) and Granger causality tes...
ABSTRACT Theoretical and empirical evidences support the prime role of public education expenditure in rapid and persistent economic growth. However, available statistics in Nigeria does not seem to support this view. An average of 5.72 per cent of public expenditure was spent on education between 1970 and 2010. During the same period, economic growth was not only inconsistent, but averaged 0.6 per cent. Public education expenditure, no doubt promotes educational attainment which could be reg...
Abstract Public hospitals are one of the key determinants of a nation’s health system performance. This study, therefore, is focussed on the question of operational efficiency of public health facilities at the secondary healthcare levels of the Nigerian health system and the factors that impinge on their performances efficiency. The study based on survey, administrative and operational data on public hospitals in Lagos and Ogun States utilised management science/operations research method...
ABSTRACT This research work investigated the effects of micro-financing on Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in South-west Nigeria. The study examined how micro-finance and non-financial micro-financing activities and features such as group membership, pre-loan training, cross guaranteeship, loan size, technical and managerial training, among others, impact on the survival, growth, productivity and performance of Micro and Small Enterprises in Southwest Nigeria. The hypotheses formulated we...
ABSTRACT The banking sector is the bedrock of the Nigerian economy, and this industry is known to have contributed in no small measure to the development of the economy. This industry is the enabling hub of national and global payment systems, which facilitates trade transactions within and amongst numerous national, regional and international economic units and by so doing; it enhances commerce, industry and exchange. In performing these various functions in the enabling environment pro...
Abstract As being experienced in many developing countries, Nigeria has been experiencing confirmed capital flight which has been a problem believed to have adversely affected domestic investment. The existence of this problem is further accentuated by the financial globalisation process which has enabled capital to flow more freely than before between countries of the world. This study examined the relationship between capital flight in Nigeria and investment during the period of financial ...
Abstract This thesis examines macroeconomic policy and business cycles in Nigeria over the period 1970 to 2004. The study is set to fill gaps in three important areas: in-depth study of business cycles in Nigeria; application of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model using Bayesian technique of solution, this complements the existing system-of-equations and the computable general equilibrium (CGE) models; and the investigation of the role of productivity, money supply, and ext...
ABSTRACT This paper presents empirical findings on the impact of capital structure (leverage) on performance of quoted firms in Nigeria. The main objective of this study is to determine the overall effect of capital structure on corporate performance of Nigerian quoted firms by establishing the relationship that exists between the capital structure choices of firms in Nigeria and their return on assets, return on equity and tobin’s Q (a market performance measure). The effect of i...