Abstract/Overview Purpose: The study sought to investigate skills competitiveness as a determinant for the demand for technical and vocational training among the youth in Kajiado County. Methodology: The study used a mixed method design of both qualitative and quantitative methods for the purposes of triangulation. Quantitative and qualitative forms of data were linked for three reasons: First, for confirming or corroborating each other via triangulation; second, for elaborating or develo...
Abstract/Overview There is rich evidence that foreign assistance in the development of economies of Africa is widespread. Africa receives a greater share, at 36%, of total global aid to than any other part of the world. Over the past four decades, aid to Africa has quadrupled from around US$11 billion to US$44 billion, with a net increase of almost US$10 billion during the period 2005-2008 alone. However, the debate on how aid can be effective in Africa’s development is, still ongoing w...
Abstract/Overview Agriculture is a leading source of employment for rural populations in Kenya. Through a mixed methods approach, this study sought to investigate youth participation in smallholder livestock production and marketing in Baringo County. The specific focus is on how social norms and micropolitics enable or constrain participation of particular groups of young people. The study established that personal choice, preference for paid over unpaid labour and gender norms in asset ...
Abstract Rural-Urban migration is on daily basis on the increase due to the poor nature of rural communities which tends to push rural dwellers to urban centre. The situation in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State is not an exception as it constitutes a serious issue to the development of the area. The study adopted a purposive research method. A total of 502 respondents were sampled and administered with a questionnaire at Mista-Ali and Gurum villages of Pengana Chiefdom. However, ...
Abstract. The study investigated changes in channel planforms of River Kaduna. Topographic maps were complimented with Mosaic of SPOT 5 satellite and Sentinel-2 images. Results showed that except for sinuosity index and channel length, channel width, braiding and channel migration exhibited considerable changes. These changes were evident in reduced velocity and stream energy, the type of sediment being transported, the silt materials being transported in suspension and the coarse sand and g...
Abstract This research work examines the impact of rapid population growth on urban residential housing demand and supply in Gombe Local Government Area (LGA). Data used in this research include information obtained directly from people using structured questionnaires administered on randomly sampled 100 respondents (household heads). Secondary sources were also consulted. The Reconnaissance survey helped the researcher in identifying various households and observing the housing sizes, l...
ABSTRACT Agriculture plays a significant role in the process of economic growth and development of Nigeria. It contributes greatly to the provision of food and raw industrial materials. Increased food production and distribution has been a significant challenge in most of the developing countries of the world. In Nigeria, several rural communities in most of the states, Northern Nigeria in particular are faced with this problem. The situation in Dukku Local Government Area of Gombe State is n...
This paper focuses on comparing the impact of settlement size/residential sectors (urban and rural) on birth registration coverage in Gombe state. It thus, assesses the levels of spatial accessibility and efficiency of the vital registration centres to the people of Gombe State in different locations in six sampled Local Government Areas (LGAs). Reconnaissance survey of the study area was undertaken and a questionnaire/interview schedule was administered to 1560 respondents. In-depth intervie...
Abstract The approaches adopted by local farmers to put the degraded landscape of the Irangi Hills in central Tanzania to productive agricultural use are analysed. The area has been extensively affected by severe soil erosion, thereby reducing its potential for agriculture. While soil erosion in the upper and middle reaches of the slopes has resulted in extensive gullies, sedimentation in the lower reaches has created extensive sandfans and buried some of the fertile, clayey soils. The chang...
Abstract The government of Ghana has used many strategies including the Capitation Grant, the School Feeding Programme and recently the distribution of free school uniforms to pupils in basic school to improve enrollment and attendance in basic schools in Ghana. The Capitation Grant and the School Feeding Programme were not directed first at improving enrollment and attendances of pupils in basic schools, but it had unintended positive effects on enrollment and in many cases attendance in th...
Abstract This paper contributes to the debate on the educational reforms and the role of the polytechnics in economic development of Ghana. The paper was an outcome of a review of secondary data supported by interviews with, polytechnic Rectors, polytechnic administrators and government officials across seven polytechnics in Ghana. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the key informants and qualitative analysis procedure was used. The study examined the educational development fro...
ABSTRACT This study is an analysis of the direct relationship between capital adequacy ratio and economic growth using gross domestic product as a proxy. Also, capital adequacy ratio and some selected macro-economic variables in Ghana. The study employs secondary data from bank of Ghana database, world development indicators and Ghana statistical service over a seventeen-year period of 2002 to 2018. The relationships calculated in this study were tested using a correlation analysis. The stud...
ABSTRACT Pension funds act as an important stimulus to capital markets in most countries where they exist through financial intermediation. Pension funds complement, and hence stimulate the development of capital markets while acting as substitutes for banks as they generate returns themselves. The returns they realize depend on different factors that vary from country to country and from time to time. The purpose of this study was to establish the determinants of the financial performance o...
ABSTRACT There is an increase in the number of construction projects undergoing delays and this has led to budget and time overruns in Ghana. Using the data set of 230 questionnaires received from respondents, this study examined the causes of delay and time performance on governmentfunded projects. The Mean Score Ranking as well as the Relative Importance Index (RII) was used to make inferences from the data collected. The results pointed out that the most significant causes of delay are in...
ABSTRACT Ghana upon the oil discovery developed the local content policy to guide upstream oil exploration and production in 2011 with the passage of Petroleum Commission (PC) Act, 2011 (Act 821). Subsequently, the government developed a legislative instrument (L.I. 2204) in 2013 to support the regulation to promote local content. This study sought to examine the impact of the local content policy and value creation in the upstream oil and gas sector in Ghana. This objective was achieved usi...