ABSTRACT After about a decade of civil war, Liberia still has a fertility similar to other countries who have not had such similar experiences. The civil war was expected to lead to a decrease in fertility given the expected increased usage of contraceptives and decrease in the desire for children. So, the question about the role of education, contraception and desired fertility was asked. To answer this question, four main questions were asked. First, whose education is more significant in ...
ABSTRACT Considering the level of inequality (GINI) and its importance in economic performance and the attainments of human development (HD), this paper examines the role of inequality in the translation of economic growth (GDPG) to HD. The study was conducted using 39 African countries from the period of 1980 to 2015. A change in non-income HD measure (△HD) comprising life expectancy at birth and education with a five-year difference was computed. An average for every five-year period cor...
ABSTRACT The East African Community (EAC) is actively pursuing the formation of a monetary union by 2023. The EAC is located in the eastern part of Africa and is made up of six neighbouring countries namely; Burundi, South Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The countries have so far made considerable progress towards monetary integration with the establishment of a customs union in 2005 and a common market in 2010. The EAC Monetary Union (EAMU) protocol lays the groundwork for the mo...
ABSTRACT Research into expenditure patterns of households using external remittances for consumption or investment purpose has gained prominent attention in academic and policy circles recently. This study joins the debate to analyze the relationship between external migrant remittances and household expenditure patterns in Ghana. The study looks at key consumption and investment variables namely food, utilities, education, health, agriculture and housing to assess the expenditure behavior o...
ABSTRACT The wave of technological advancement has made electricity an indispensable input in an economy. It reigns at the center of households’ basic activities and productivity of industrial and service firms. Its supply in Ghana, like many other African countries has however, not been consistent over the years. This lays demand on policymakersfrom households and firms to increase the quantity supplied. In response to this, several thermal plants have been installed to augment the limite...
ABSTRACT The number of global working poor far exceeds the number of unemployed people. Thus, employment creation is not sufficient for poverty alleviation. For this reason, the concept of ‘decent work’, which seeks to measure the quality and quantity of work was proposed by the ILO in 1999 as a necessary and sufficient condition for poverty eradication. Achieving universal decent work is now one of the first eight SDG’s to be achieved by all countries in 2030. Previous studies on dece...
ABSTRACT In Nigeria, health insurance is not a commonly purchased financial instrument. Recently debates have revolved around extending health insurance coverage to a wider range of the population, via compulsory insurance scheme. However, the debate rarely considers the competing demands placed on the family budget. In this work, we examined the factors that will increase the benefits of those that have health insurance cover in the formal sector and the factors that will influence th...
Abstract The study, "The Effects of Multiple Taxation on Small-Scale Enterprises in Ebonyi State" focused on finding the changes in the operations of Small-Scale Enterprises prompted by imposition of multiple taxation. It also looked at the impact of multiple taxation on investment decision of SSEs operators. Descriptive statistics was used go study the data collected for this work through a well-structured questionnaire. The Godman's and Kruskal's Gamma, a non-parametric measures of associat...
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 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with over 12.3% of the world’s population contributed as little as 1.41% of world’s total output in 2008. In terms of international trade, SSA region has performed below expectations. Its total, service and manufactured exports shares in world market on the average were at low values of 0.04%, 0.02% and 0.01% between 1995 and 2008, respectively. The values were far lower than the world average as well as wh...
ABSTRACT The design of proposed Modern Bus Terminal at Obalende employs the use of thin-shell concrete structures in order to provide maximum space use. The study adopts a combination of primary and secondary data which were obtained through review of relevant literature and case studies and also interview of stakeholders at the intended site. The obtained data were properly analyzed and infused into the proposed design for a properly functional bus terminal with proper circulation....
ABSTRACT Income inequality stalls economic growth with undesirable socio-economic consequences. Despite measures targeted towards reducing the inequality gap, disparities in income distribution persists. The link between financial reforms and income inequality is still relatively unexplored in the literature. This study appraises the impact of financial reforms including credit growth on income inequality using a sample of twenty selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 1980 to 201...
Abstract This study was conducted in Khartoum State in the period of 2016 to 2019. The study aims to evaluate economic impact of Carniola beekeeping by mobile beekeeping in Khartoum state and to evaluate economic of mobile beekeepers, also to analyze samples of honey products to know if it is complying with international specificsand standards. The importance of this study is to get the benefits of the production and breeding of bees in Khartoum state in different flowering seasons for the f...
ABSTRACT The study examined the validity of Friedman’s hypothesis and subjected to test the stability of money demand function in Nigeria over the period of 1970-2006 using the Nigerian time series data. The study applied the Granger causality test and the Distributed Lag Model (DLM) to estimate two distinct equations, while the CUSUM and CUSUM Squares test procedure was used to examine the stability of money demand function. As a matter of necessity, we subjected our variables to time ser...
ABSTRACT The importance of the manufacturing sector in the economic growth cannot be overemphasized. This has led to interests in the determinants of its performance over the years. This study therefore, investigated the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the performance of the manufacturing sector in Nigeria as well as the causal relationship between foreign direct investment and manufacturing capacity utilisation (MCU) from 1970-2012 under the framework of VAR. The result of...