ABSTRACT Microfinance is the provision of finance services to low income clients including consumers and the self employed that traditionally lack access to banks and related services. Microfinance institutions are therefore institutions that provide financial services to low income earners who lack access to banks and bank related services (Georgina, 2001). According to Garner (1996) the object of micro finance institution is a world in which as many poor and near poor households as possible...
ABSTRACT Rural development of any kind in any place can only be meaningfully achieved through a well – planned and executed complex interaction of many economic and non economic variables. In the course of this study, the press here has faced with the obligation of bettering the lives of the rural communities through the packaging of information on how to do something which their in exposure hinders them from acquiring basic knowledge. The major aim of this study is to highlight and e...
ABSTRACT This research project titled:- THE ROLE OF SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT (A CASE STUDY OF ANAMBRA EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT) is a case study type of research, and the instrument used in gathering date is the questionnaire method. Every dick and harry harp on small-scale industries as the modus operandi too rural development hence the researcher became interested on the topic. The objective is to find out the relevance of small-scale industries in rural development. Two h...
TABLE OF CONTENT Title page Certification Dedication Acknowledgement Table of content CHAPTER ONE 1.0 General introduction or background of the study 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Statement of the study 1.3 Purpose / objective of the study 1.4 Significant of the study 1.5 Research of the study 1.6 Scope and limitation of the study 1.7 Organization of the study / plan of the study 1.8 Definition of terms or operational terms ...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed at critically examine the effects mass- media on rural development. The work also includes the origin of the programme, Literature review, a statement of the research problem, the hypothesis and the research methodology of the study. Equally included are the data analysis, data interpretation, results, discussion as well as bibliography. The research problem is “The effectiveness of ESBS (radio) rural enlighten programme “ONU OHA”. The result of the stud...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of local government on rural Infrastructural development in Huriwa district Mogadishu of Somalia. The study was guided by Diffusion Theory. The study problem was the fact that poor rural infrastructural development is hindering Huriwa district growth in Mogadishu Somalia, and this happens due to unfavourable Local government policies to the people., Somalia. The conclusions of the study included; development of transportation in...
The purpose of this paper is to develop and apply a distributional impact assessment methodology to empirically analyze distributional impact of public expenditure on human development. For robustness of the analysis, expenditure on education, health, agriculture, rural development, energy, housing, environmental protection and portable water resources are employed as predictors of human development. The result reveals that expenditure on education, health, agriculture, rural development ...
ABSTRACT Livestock play multiple roles in the livelihoods of people in developing communities, especially the poor. They provide food and nutrition, work, economic and social status, and ensure environmental sustainability. Unfortunately Sudan livestock sector in general is poorly organized and specifically small ruminant (sheep and goats). The owners are only smallholders and resource poor; because of this it is difficult if not impossible for them to access credit for increasing their inco...
The study assessed rural youth migration in Ovia north east local government area of Edo State. This study specifically described socio-economic characteristics of rural households obtained, information on migrant youth, examined the level of youth participation in agricultural and rural development activities and the effect of youth migration on these activities in the study area between 2012 2017. A two stage sampling procedure was used to select eighty (80) respondents who were household ...
Literature on energy recognizes the electrification of rural areas as an important economic development trigger. As the impact of rural electrification begins to manifest, rural areas begin to look different. The change becomes difficult to recognize in retrospect and also to foresee even before the intervention. The impact of electrification varies among various sectors of the rural economy. This paper examines rural electrification in the Dormaa District of Ghana by highlighting its linkage...
ABSTRACT This study dealt with the role of electronic media in promoting rural economic development in Uganda. Chapter one gave the background information of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, scope of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two gives an illustration of the related literature review. Chapter three gave the description of the reach design, population description, and sampling design, instruments for data collection, ethic...
Abstract: Informality is pervasive in Tanzania’s rural waterscape, but not acknowledged by development partners(donors and beneficiaries), despite persistent warnings by development scholars. Informality is thus the proverbial elephant in the room. In this paper, we examine a case of superior rural water access in two geographical locales—Hai and Siha districts—in Tanzania, where actors not only acknowledge, but actively harness informality to provide access to water to rural population...
ABSTRACT The research investigated the challenges faced by NGOs in promoting youth development using the case study of Mutare Rural District in Zimbabwe. A developing country like that of Zimbabwe,past decades have revealed an extreme expansion in the growth of Non- governmental organisational sector both in social, economic and political spheres. NGOs are non-profit and humanitarian aid agencies that are devoted to the uplifting of lives of the poor, underprivileged, marginalized and underde...
The study investigated crucial factors influencing role performance of community leaders in ruraldevelopment activities (RDAs) in Southwestern Nigeria. A multi‑stage sampling procedure was used toselect the respondents. Primary data were collected from 352 respondents using structure interviewschedule while key informants were subjected to in‑depth interview. Appropriate descriptivestatistical tools were used to summarise quantitative data while content analysis was used forqualitative da...
ABSTRACT All over the world, the standard of living of nations in the world has varied due to the varied levels of development attained by different nations. Within a nation, different standard of living is always observed. Nigeria is not an exception. It is obvious that rural areas continue to be less developed than their urban counterparts. This continues to be a source of worry to successive governments of Nigeria. Successive efforts were therefore, put in place to bridge the gap between...