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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Nigeria has an estimated population of about 125 million people and a land area of about 924 square kilometers, a large proportion of which is arable. It has large deposit of oil, gas and solid minerals and a sizeable educated and skilled workforce. Deposit these, the country has not been able to effectively harness its endowment to develop the econ...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The study investigated the nature of the farmers herdsmen crisis in Nigeria and examined the major factors responsible for the crisis in Nigeria. Also, it assessed the role of government in addressing the crisis and identified gaps in government responses to the farmers herdsmen crisis. These were with a view to finding out the reasons why conflict management strategies employed by the go...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Background to the study Human capital is stated as a source of national development to all countries of the world. According to Khilji (2005) Education and health are the two major basics of human capital so therefore improving the quality of education and health services of the people is among the major ways of improving the quality of human capital given that the econom...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Socio economic status is a definite background variable that represents a feature of the social structure in society (Oakes & Rossi, 2003). It is a fact that families where the parents are privileged educationally, socially and economically, promote a higher level of achievement in their offspring. The socio economic status of a child is usually...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of study Good Roads are an essential part of any developing economy. Well advanced countries all over the world have invested heavily on road infrastructure. Well advancing African countries such as Rwanda and South Africa have all invested heavily in road development and rehabilitation. A country’s economic development and national integration depends on ...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This paper reviews the financial management system of the Legon Interdenominational Church in light of the financial mismanagement issues of misconduct arising in recent times. It focuses on the cash management, investment management and internal control and accountability mechanisms of the church as they present a more reflective depiction of the entire system. It was a qualitative study...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The study examined how Ghana could harness its the potentials of is Diaspora to complement its development efforts. One of the biggest diasporas in recent times is that of the African diaspora or more specifically the Sub Saharan diaspora. It used both primary and secondary sources to review, since independence, how successive governments have exploited the potentials of Ghana’s ri...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This study aims at establishing the role that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and institutions played in the industrialisation process of 40 sub Saharan African countries, over the period of 1996 through 2015. The study used a fixed effect method (FEM) of estimation for the analysis of data which was sourced from the world development indicators (WDI) database of the world bank and...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the study The debate about the significance of the financial sector to economic growth has been on going for decades. In recent times, the interlinkages between financial sector development, poverty alleviation and economic growth provide compelling reasons why the financial sector is essential to developing countries especially those in sub – Saharan A...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Corporate entrepreneurship has been recognized as an effective strategy by which to improve enterprise performance (growth and profitability) and as a result corporate managers are unanimous in making their employees and organizations more entrepreneurial. However, the challenge of management is to create a supportive environment that attracts, motivates and retains intrapreneurs, instill...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study This chapter presents the background of the study and the role of credit cards in economic development. The chapter also presents an in depth description of the key determinants of credit cards default under study, namely socio demographic, behavioural and economic determinants. Further, the chapter presents the statement of the research problem, re...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The growth of women owned enterprises is currently attracting much policy and literal attention. There is debate that transformational leadership and prior knowledge are essential to the growth of micro and small enterprises (MSEs). However, empirical evidence of the role of transformational leadership and prior knowledge on the growth of women owned enterprises in Kenya is scarce. The pu...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study In order for organizations to be successful and achieve superior performance, firms must continually anticipate, determine and deliver customer satisfaction to the target markets, keep abreast with the emerging market trends, monitor competitor activities and proactively adjust their products and service offering, reconfigure internal resources and ...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the study At independence in 1962, the Uganda government inherited a Public Service that had recruited public servants through open competition regardless of class, ethnicity, race, sex or religion (Apuki, 2007; DFIDEA U, 2001). Promotion was purely on merit and performance was determined through confidential annual reports on all public servants (Langseth, &...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Research Problem Evidence found in the works of scholars in comparative politics of several decades in development studies shows that democracy leads to economic development or economic development provides opportunities for democratization. The latter confirms to a large extent, the hypotheses made by Lipset that the state of an economy can influence the...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study This study aimed at exploring the listening competence levels in English of teacher trainees in both public and private teacher training colleges in Kenya. It further aimed at analysing how certain social variables such as sex, age, entry behavior, college type and performance in Mid course examination affect the trainees‟ listening competence as ...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Pineapple farmers in Ghana are not able to meet their potential yield. Organizations are making conscious efforts to help boost pineapple production by training farmers on topics such as input use and farm management. It is necessary to ascertain if some gaps in production still exist that need to be addressed. The study sought to identify the influence of inputs on pineapple production i...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This thesis analysed the production, productivity and market participation of smallholder cowpea producers in the Northern Region of Ghana. It estimated the factors influencing cowpea production participation, productivity and market participation decisions. A multi stage random sampling was employed in selecting four major cowpea producing districts and communities....Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study A key ingredient of the theory of the firm is its attempt to explain performance heterogeneity among firms, an issue that has been in the focus of strategic management research over the years (Hughes & Morgan, 2007). The resource based view (RBV) holds that companies gain sustainable competitive advantages by deploying valuable resources and cap...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The study was conducted to estimate productivity and resource use efficiency of cashew farmers in Ghana focusing on the Brong Ahafo and Volta regions. First, it estimated the technical efficiency levels of cashew producers, identified the determinants of the technical inefficiency of producers and finally estimated resource use efficiency of inputs used by cashew producers. A cross sectio...Continue Reading »
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