Agriculture accounts for a lot of land use in most of the developing countries; hence it is probably the single most powerful influence on environmental quality. Agriculture remains the principal livelihood of the rural poor (Malik, 1999). Agriculture has been the backbone of the Ghanaian economy. Agriculture is very vital to society. It helps to alleviate poverty, provide food security and economic growth. It is the backbone of many African economies especially Ghana (World Development ...
ABSTRACT African trypanosomiases are a group of related diseases that affect humans (Human African Trypanosomiasis - HAT) and their livestock (Animal African Trypanosomiasis), with devastating medical and economic consequences for Africa. The diseases are caused by trypanosome parasites cyclically transmitted by tsetse flies. Recent reports indicate that HAT is on the decline in sub Sahara Africa. However, the disease still remains a major health problem in some parts of Africa such as South...
ABSTRACT Small Scale Industries all over the world have been the engine room for viable economic growth and development. In the light of the above, this research work identifies the role of small scale industries (SSI) in the growth of the nation's economy. Various related literatures were reviewed from which it was noticed that Small scale Industries are central to the growth of the nation’s economy. This is evident in the policies created by government to accelerate the development of sm...
ABSTRACT This study empirically examined the effect of research and development on agricultural sector growth in East African Community from the year 2000-2014. According to the endogenous growth theory, research and development leads to increase in the stock of knowledge which in turn has got spill over effects hence leads to economic growth. However, information on the effect of R&D on the agricultural sector in the EAC was lacking hence the study sought to bridge this knowledge gap. The ob...
Democracy and Economic Development is a matter of absolute choice. In the context of West Africa and Africa, contemporary democracy and economic development is a matter of choice and the interplay of internal and external forces at play. The long-term negative effects of colonial legacies and lack of strong democratic institutions are the exact outcome of democracy and development in West Africa. Studies show countries that have strong democratic intuitions develop faster and enjoy the divide...
The country's economy is rural with agriculture contributing 40% of the country's GOP. Manufacturing - which is greatly dominated by the processing of primary products -and commerce, together account for 27% of GOP? Uganda's economy grew by a credible 5.6% in financial year 2001- a slight decline from the 6% rate of growth in the year 2000. Growth was largely generated by performances in the construction, transport, communication and community services sectors. The Ugandan government did well...
ABSTRACT The process of globalization has permeated every sphere of human activity, most notably in the arena of economic globalization. Economic globalization encompasses the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows and migration. The benefits of globalization are numerous such as foreign direct investments and portfolio flows that engender accelerated economic growth both in the advanced and the emerging economi...
ABSTRACT 1.0 BACKGROUND One of the indices for measuring the development of an economy is the size and maturity of its insurance industry. This is because the insurance industry plays a very important role in the mobilization and utilization of investible resources in the economy. It also acts as the observer of the risks and uncertainties associated with economic activities, the absence of a market for which can greatly reduce the growth of economic activity. The relevance of the insurance...
This research aims to analyze the potential and the strategy of developing Tomini Bay to improve the economic growth of the coastal community in Central Sulawesi. The research is located in four regencies in Central Sulawesi. The method uses the descriptive analysis using SWOT analysis. The research result shows that the potential of fisheries resources in Poso Regency, Parigi Moutong Regency, Tojo Una-Una Regency, and Banggai Regency can support the development of Tomini Bay region based on ...
Abstract Background: Mycobacterium africanum (MAF) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis sensu strico (MTBss) are two members of a closely related bacterial species of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) that causes tuberculosis (TB) in humans. However MAF is known to cause up to 50% of human pulmonary TB in West Africa only. MAF has been subdivided into MAF West African 1 (MAF1) (Lineage 5) and MAF West African 2 (MAF2) (Lineage 6), as two distinct phylogenetical lineages within MTBC. Subsequ...
ABSTRACT This study examines the Struggle for Regional Integration in Africa: the East African Community from 1886 to 2013. The East African community is the regional cooperation that comprises of the republic of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan. The process leading to the establishment of the initial EAC in 1967 started as early as 1886 with the construction of Kenya-Uganda railway. The initial community, however, collapsed in 1977, ten years after its formation. It w...
Abstract: At its inception, taxonomy simply provided guidelines for nomenclature. It has since developed into a science applied to problems relating to economics, conservation and even law. Taxonomy is arguably one of the most important pillars of the biological sciences, providing the framework from which all other studies are conducted. We expand this essential foundation by describing four new species of Trox in Chapter 2 of this dissertation - the first to be recorded in South Africa sin...
ABSTRACT This research examines empirically the causal relationship between the development of the financial sector and Ghana's economic growth. In this research findings, data from the Global Financial Development Database (GFDD) and World Development Indicators (WDI) were used. The research employs information from time series data and utilizes a bound test strategy to cointegration within the context of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ADRL) to determine the short-term and long-term li...
ABSTRACT This study focused on the empirical examination of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) in West Africa and tried to discover whether or not the EKC held in West Africa for carbon emissions (CO2) which is an indicator of environmental quality. The study included the entire sixteen countries located in the West African region and spanned the time period from 1980-2012. The panel data estimation technique was carried out and the result generated from our analysis was that of the fixed effe...
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Political stability according to David Sanders is the discontinuity of a system or the frequency of unstable of unstable events in a political system (sanders 1981:49).Political instability has become a common place in Nigeria’s socio-economic and political society due to the heterogeneous background in which she is composed of. This instability most often arises from the interaction among members of the society of different; ethnicity political, cultural and religi...