ABSTRACT This study is set out to analysis the issues of poverty, class stratification and social injustice in Olu Obafemi’s Wheels and Festus Iyayi’s Violence. The purpose is to enlighten Africans on the need to fight against all forms of social injustice. The Marxist theory is adopted for the analysis of this study. The result is that the quest for a classless society is the only way for a better living. TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE i DEDICATION ii ACKNOW...
ABSTRACT This research is a creation of the most talked about problem in our time today. Something that has been talked about over and over and whatever change takes place looks so insignificant. Currently, demographers are in the notion that by 2010 the worlds populations will have doubled from 5.3 billion to more than 10 billion people. With such a speculation, Kenya and Nairobi as the case study here is not left out and the way as to how inhabitants of Nairobi can try and help themselves f...
This study was carried to find out the socioeconomic status of orphans and vulnerable children in academic performance in some selected schools in Siaya District. An eif~rt was done to find the related literature to the study area guided by both the objectives and research questions. The findings in the study generally showed that there are some factors which alTect the orphans and vulnerable children in their endeavour to perform at per with their peers. Fo assist in alleviating the problems...
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ABSTRACT The study to assess and evaluate factors contributing to scarcity of water and compute water poverty index (WPI) for identifying priority areas for interventions in Baga watershed was undertaken in Lushoto district, Tanzania. Specific objectives of this study were to identify and assess factors contributing to scarcity of water, compute WPI for villages and identification of priority areas for interventions in Baga watershed. Data were collected from households through questionnaire...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to assess the impact of small-scale aquaculture on food security and poverty reduction in Nyamagana District. Four streets namely Lwanima, Mkuyuni, Sweya and Luchelele were involved. Purposive sampling was used to select 6 key informants. Small-scale fish farmers were randomly picked in each street leading to a sample size of 100 respondents. Field physical visit, questionnaire survey, interview, and documentary review were used in data collection. Collected...
ABSTRACT The frequency and the severity of landslides have increased in recent times globally, with serious implications for human lives and property, as well as national economies. In many disaster response initiatives, community-based disaster management approach is adopted as a quick solution to emergency response. This study was carried out in Gakenke District in the Northern Province of Rwanda, which is highly prone to landslide disasters. It investigated the role of government and local...
ABSTRACT The study investigates the impact of government expenditure on economic growth of Nigeria from the period 1980-2011. The objective was set to address the problem of utilization of revenue targeted to improving the economic condition of Nigeria. The review of theoretical and empirical literature provided a basis for the selection and specification of model which was used to show if government capital and recurrent expenditure has positive or negative impact on economic growth. The dat...
ABSTRACT This study investigated Property concepts in Ga using the Framework-free Grammatical theory (Haspelmath 2008). The study examined three main syntactic categories namely adjectives, verbs and nouns that are used to expressed property concepts in Ga. The morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of these three categories were investigated. Morphologically, most of the adjectives used as property concepts agree with the head noun in number, with the exception of those adje...
TABLE OF CONTENTDECLARATION iiAPPROVAL IiDEDICATIONACKNOWLEDGEMENT vTABLE OF CONTENT viCHAPTER ONE 1INTRODUCTION 11.1 The effect of family poverty on students’ academic performance 11.2STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 21.3 GENERAL OBJECTIVE\PURPOSE 21.4 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES 31.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 31.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 31.7 SIGNIFICANCY OF THE STUDY 4CHAPTER TWO 5LITERATURE REVIEW 52.0 Introduction2.1 Conceptual Frame Work s2.2 THEORETICAL REVIEW 62.3 The Effect of Neighbourhood Poverty on academi...
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Young people are an important human resource and Botswana is no exception. The critical challenge facing Botswana is to raise the rate of economic growth to levels incorporating broad based improvement in the standards of living and well-being of youth. The country faces high levels of poverty, unemployment and inequality which have hit the youth group so hard. Significant pockets of poverty remain, especially in rural areas. The living conditions of the vast majority of Botswana are deterior...
ABSTRACT The topic of the study was the impacts of Non-governmental organizations services in poverty Eradication in Nakapiripirit Town Council in Nakapiripirit District. The main purpose of this was to establish extent to which people ofNakapiripirit Town council have benefitted from NGO services. The research therefore intended to examine the following objectives: • To establish whether NGO services have improved on the education in Nakapiripirit Local government • To determine whe...
ABSTRACT Studies into income, expenditure and standard of living of individuals and households are well documented in literature. Many of these studies cover different forms of poverty indicators and variables. The methods used in this analysis were mainly econometric models. The study is concerned with determining the indicators and variables that possibly influence income, expenditure and living standard of households. The objective here is to model the determinants of living standards or p...
ABSTRACT Earlier works on moonlighting are concentrated on the motives for holding two or more jobs. In Ghana, as well as other African countries, studies on multiple job holding have mostly centered around determinants of moonlighting, relationship between moonlighting and unionism, urban deprivation and multiple modes of livelihood, among others. On the contrary, little work has been done on the effect that moonlighting has on moonlighters, especially the working poor population. This thesi...