The prevalence of non-performing loans in the microfinance sector is a major concern in reducing the profitability of MFIs in Zimbabwe, therefore, this study investigated the impact of non-performing loans on the profitability of MFIs in Zimbabwe. The study adopted a descriptive research design and the study population constituted MFIs in Zimbabwe in which the sample size was 170 MFIs using random sampling as a sampling technique. Closed-ended questionnaires were used as data collection instr...
This paper scrutinizes whether government borrowing in Eastern Europe is grounded on the need to provide infrastructure and public amenities as provided in the budget or is triggered by government deficit budgeting. European Union countries have experienced accelerated growth in public debt in the last half a century despite growing tax revenue and cuts in public spending. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the direct and indirect links among public debt, tax revenue and government e...
This study examines the impact of local government account auditing on the financial management and accountability of councils, with a focus on Egbedore Local Government, Osun State. Auditing serves as a critical tool for promoting transparency, ensuring compliance with financial regulations, and curbing resource mismanagement. However, local governments often face challenges such as inadequate audit funding, lack of skilled personnel, and political interference, which hinder effective financ...
ABSTRACT This research was motivated by the presence of equivocatory and divergent views on the relationship between corporate social responsibility and organizational performance in extant literature. The research in this direction sought to clarify this relationship by proposing an explanatory model assuming the Ghanaian perspective. To do this, the research firstly ascertained the determinants of organizational performance in the Ghanaian context. These determinants were then analyzed...
ABSTRACT This study aims examines the impact of green procurement practices on organizational performance in county governments in Kenya. Green procurement, also known as sustainable procurement or environmentally responsible procurement, involves incorporating environmental considerations into the procurement process to minimize negative environmental impacts and promote sustainability. The study investigates how green procurement practices are adopted and implemented in county governments i...
ABSTRACT The study examined the impact of strategic planning on organizational performance in order to determine if strategic planning has an impact on the performance of an organization, using Anchor University, Lagos as a case study. The study's objectives are, to ascertain whether or not organizational structure leads to improved employee productivity in Anchor University, to ascertain the relationship between leadership effectiveness and level employee productivity in Anchor University, a...
This study is a comparative analysis of Kenya and South Africa, the largest economies in Eastern and Southern Africa respectively, based on gross domestic product (GDP), energy use and carbon emissions. This study investigates the contribution of economic growth and renewable energy use on greenhouse carbon dioxide emissions in both country-level and group data, to observe their possible impact on environmental pollution. The present study addresses United Nations Sustainable Development Goal...
It is worrisome to note that despite the huge investments in technology, banks have continued to witness unending queues in the banking hall which defies the main purpose in which the technologies were invested upon, this lead to decline in overall performance and customers` dissatisfaction. Therefore, this study sought to examine the effect of e-banking service quality dimension of Responsiveness, reliability, security, website design, ease of use and how they affect customer satisfaction of...
The performance of rural smallholder dairy agrienterprises in Kenya is very critical as it contributes to welfare improvement of rural people especially the youth and women. Despite this acknowledgement, the farm productivity of rural dairy agripreneurs is persistently low. Entrepreneurial orientations and utilization of agribusiness support services have been viewed as a catalyst for improvement of agrienterprises performance. This study sought to determine impact of agripreneurial orientati...
e modern devolution development across the globe has been in part driven by assertions of a supposed ‘economic dividend’ linked with the devolved expenditure. There is however, little empirical evidence to validate these assertions in Kenya. Most empirical studies across different countries have used different methods of analysis, different time periods and diverse techniques of measuring variable which have generated mixed conclusions and others are inconclusive. More so, in Kenya these ...
Witnesses in highly sensitive cases are often intimated and physically harmed by people they are witnessing against or their associated. Kenyan government has enacted witness protection laws as results of pressure from International Criminal Court as part of conditions in prosecution of Post-Election Violence (PEV). This study sought to identify and document challenges facing implementation of witness protection program in Kenya. Specifically, this current study sought to achieve following ob...
This study examined the factors which influenced the implementation and prioritization of the three-pronged strategy which the Government of Kenya adopted in 2003 to fight corruption. Despite its adoption, the prevalence of corruption in the country remained high as reported in the anti-corruption commission reports, corruption perception surveys, parliamentary reports and in the media. The widespread corruption was an indication that the strategy faced challenges in reducing it and this situ...
This study examined gender-labour relations in tobacco production and their implications on household‟s socio-economic welfare in Kuria Sub-Counties. The major issue that led to this study was and still remains that tobacco is being regarded as a crop belonging to men since its inception in the 1960‟s. Consequently, men have institutionalized restriction and constraints on women regarding the access to land resources and the benefits accrued from tobacco sales on one hand, while appropria...
This study sought to examine the participation and ascendancy of elite women in political leadership as it is of a national concern in Kenya. However, the case of Maasai community; especially within Narok South Sub-County has been focused in this study. The objectives of the study were to explore the influence of historical trends, socio-cultural, economic and demographic factors on women’s political participation. On the strength of these objectives, a conceptual framework was developed il...
Abstract/Overview It is unclear how much adolescents’ lives were disrupted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic or what risk factors predicted such disruption. To answer these questions, 1,080 adolescents in 9 nations were surveyed 5 times from March 2020 to July 2022. Rates of adolescent COVID-19 life disruption were stable and high. Adolescents who, compared to their peers, lived in nations with higher national COVID-19 death rates, lived in nations with less stringent COVID-19 mitigation st...