Abstract National and international organizations continue to express concerns on older persons worldwide, and have suggested measures for improving their lives and overall well-being within the framework of sustainable development. Citizenship cannot be assumed to have the same significance for the young and old. A common experience is that of disentitlements of the older persons regarding their person and other rights. Theoretically, older persons are not a homogenous group. It has been ob...
ABSTRACT This Dissertation analyses the functionalist assumptions and evaluates then in the light of ECOWAS experience. An important retionale for this is to ascertain the degree to which a European based origin of functional ist theory despite the underdevelopment character of the ECOWAS sub-region makes functionalism as a theory of integration an attractive policy guide in the sub-regions developmental process. An important proposition investigated in this dissertation is the contention tha...
ABSTRACT The thesis is on fiscal federalism in Nigeria particularly since 1967 and proposals for future revenue allocation in Nigeria. As a background, it sketches the framework of a federal as distinct from a unitary system of government, noting the role of the public sector in the former. It reviews the developments in fiscal federalism in the two decades 1946 - 1966, a period that witnessed the evolution from a unitary to a federal form of government and also the corresponding changes in t...
ABSTRACT . Past and recent studies have found the level of fertility among the Yoruba to be very high and stable. Attempts to explain why this is so have, however, not been satisfactory. This study has therefore attempted to provide an answer to this problem using Iwo local government area as a case. The study reveals that the level of fertility. in Iwo local government is very high despite the fact that a significant proportion of the women interviewed had ever used family planning methods a...
ABSTRACT A recurring decimal in Nigerian federalism is the issue of resource allocation and sharing of revenue between the federal.' government and the component units. The Nigeria physical federal arrangement is unique because by the nature of the Nigerian arrangement, the federal government controls all the resources, hence distributes revenue to the states and local governments based on criteria, which she determines. The problem has always been there with which criteria should take preced...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title of Page Approval Page Dedication Acknowledgment Table of Content CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study 1.2 Statement of research problem 1.3 Research hypotheses 1.4 Objectives of the study 1.5 Significance of the study 1.6 Scope and limitations of the study 1.7 Scheme of the study CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Concept in Examination of Risk Management 2.3 Examination of Risk Management process 2.4 Im...
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ABSTRACT Change is what brings forth new ideas, solutions and growth. It’s about breaking free from our circle of comfort in order to start seeing alternative routes offered to our organizations to progress in the right direction. It’s about embracing business transformation, making an organisation more agile, ready to adapt, and taking advantage of the latest innovations to boost competitiveness. County governments in Kenya have become a point interest especially in service delivery at t...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page - - - - - - - - - - i Approval Page - - - - - - - - - ii Dedication - - - - - - - - - - iii Acknowledgement - - - - - - - - - iv Table of Contents - - - - - - - - - v CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0 General Introduction - - - - - - - - 1 1.1 Background of the Study - - - - - - - 1 1.2 Statement of Research Problem - - - - - - - 2 1.3 Research Question - - - - - - - - 3 1.4 Objectives of the Study - - - - - - - 3 1.5 Hypothesis - - - - - - - - - 4 1.6 Signif...
ABSTRACT: Kenya has devolved funds to grass root level with the aim of bringing services and development close to its citizens in view of vision 2030. However a report by the controller and Auditor General in Kenya gazette 2010 uncovered massive misappropriation of Constituency Development Funds in Constituencies. Inspite of this, other constituencies were reported as posting remarkable performance. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of devolution on economic development. A des...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title page Approval page Dedication Acknowledgment Table of contents CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study 1.2 Statement of Research Problem 1.3 Objective of the Study 1.4 Research Hypotheses 1.5 Significance of the Study 1.6 Scope of the Study 1.7 Chapter Scheme CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Definition of Small and Medium Enterprises 2.2.1 Cottage Industry 2.3 Small and Medium Enterprises and acce...
ABSTRACT Stock prices fluctuations for quoted companies occur daily due to both company specific variables like company earnings with corresponding dividend policies, and multiple macroeconomic variables. This study sought evidence supporting the existence of influence of the selected macro-economic variables of: foreign exchange rate of hard currencies, interest rate and inflation rate on share prices fluctuations based on the weighted average monthly data from January 2008 to December 2012 ...
ABSTRACT Every year the Ministry of Education places students in various categories of public secondary schools in Kenya. However, the final form one enrolment in these school categories do not adhere to the Ministry of Education’s initial placements. This has mainly been attributed to differentiated students’ background characteristics. The purpose of this study therefore was to establish the relationship between students’ background characteristic and their decision to enroll into dif...
ABSTRACT Despite the strict regulations put in place by the Commission for University Education, it is perceived by the education stakeholders that the academic sector in universities faces difficulties of handling large numbers of student enrollements that has escalated in the recent past due to increase in the number of universities and thirst for education making handling of voluminous data manually very cumbersome. This study was conducted to determine the efficiency of Enterprise Resourc...
Abstract Employee retention is one of the global challenges facing organizations in both public and private sector. It has emerged to be a major strategic decision by organizations in both developing and developed countries. The study sought to understand the determinants of employee retention at Daystar University which is one of the leading private universities in Kenya. The main objective of the study was to establish the determinants of employee retention at Daystar University. The target...