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Family Instability And Juvenile Delinquency: A Study of Owerri Municipality

ABSTRACT    The increasing rate of juvenile delinquency has become a major social problem globally and locally. Researchers and concerned individuals have traced the preponderance of juvenile delinquency to the increasing rate of family instability among other factors. However, concerted inquiries into the influence of family instability on juvenile delinquency have resulted in a raging controversy. While some researchers have found a significant relationship between family instability and ...

Effects Of Knowledge Management Practices On Financial Innovation Of Kenyan Commercial Banks: A Case Of Chase Bank (Ir) Kenya Ltd.

ABSTRACT Knowledge Management in organizations has become an important strategic weapon for sustaining competitive advantage. Knowledge management manages the corporation’s knowledge through a systematically and organizationally specified process for acquiring, organizing, sustaining, applying, sharing and renewing both the tactic and explicit knowledge of employees to enhance organizational performance and create value. This study sought to investigate the effect of Knowledge Management o...

Evaluating The Impact of International Trade Flows on Industrial Sector Employment in Nigeria

ABSTRACT  The study evaluates the impact of international trade flows on industrial sector employment in Nigeria. Specifically, the study evaluates the extent in which trade expansion has impacted on the industrial sector employment, the impact of net export on aggregate labour demand by industrial sector employment in Nigeria. The data for the study were mainly sourced from CBN statistical bulletins and World Bank economic indicator for Nigeria. The estimation was done within the framework ...

Gender Balance In Positions Of Power And Decision-Making In Government Institutions: An Assessment On The Implementation Of The National Gender Policy In Namibia

ABSTRACT This study assesses the implementation of the National Gender Policy, with more emphasis on gender balance in position of power and decision-making. The topic, gender equality, was chosen on the understanding that equality and respect for Human Rights are major principles of democracy that the Namibian government has opted for. Namibia set herself a target of reaching 30% female representation in power and decision-making positions by 2005 in an effort to achieve an acceptable gende...

Population Dynamics And Economic Growth in Nigeria

ABSTRACT  This study investigated the relationship between population dynamics and economic growth in Nigeria. In addition, the study tried to identify the determinants of population growth as well as testing for causality between population and economic growth in Nigeria. Using annual time series data spanning from 1970 to 2013, the researcher employed a multiple regression model for the first and second objective of the study while the granger causality test was used to capture the third o...

An Evaluation of The Judiciary as A Major Plank of Criminal Justice in Nigeria: A Study of Enugu State

ABSTRACT  The study evaluates the judiciary as the major unit of the criminal justice system in Nigeria. Case flow management, financial autonomy, inadequate facilities, and other constraints have made it difficult for the judiciary in Enugu State to dispense cases freely. The objectives of this study, therefore, were to find out how slow dispensation of cases by the judiciary affects their citizens in criminal matters. The researcher used propositions to discuss and analyze the problems fac...

The Nigerian Prisons And The Treatment of Offenders: A Study of Lagos State Prison Formations

Abstract    The study was designed to investigate the extent to which the Nigerian Prison Service had performed its cardinal objective of treating offenders with special reference to Lagos State Prison Formations. This study looked at the available resources for this purpose. Such resource s include finance, vocational skill training workshops qualified staff, prison facilities and health care delivery facilities, etc. In the investigation, seven research questions and three major hypothes...

Influence Of Service Quality On Customer Retention Among Deposit Taking Saccos In Kenya: A Case Of Mwalimu National Sacco In Nairobi

ABSTRACT SACCOs are on the forefront to offer financial services to their members; but they encounter with countless problems such as lack of customer care services, lack of good governance, weak member confidence, and inadequate use of technology, insufficient financial services, high registration costs and increasing interest rates among others. Therefore, there exists a gap in literature, which this study aims to fill by establishing the influence of service quality on customer retention ...

An Assessment Of The Economic Effects Of Anti-Money Laundering In Namibia

ABSTRACT This study provided comprehensive details and assessment on the economic effects of antimoney laundering in Namibia. The mixed method was used to describe and analyse money laundering and financing terrorism in Namibia. The study also used a regression model to analyse the effect of money laundering on the economy. The topic is vital with regards to the main findings that revealed that money-laundered negatively affects economic growth. Corruption and tax evasion were identified as ...

Consumer Decision-Making Styles Among Generation Y Consumers In Namibia

ABSTRACT This study investigated the decision-making styles of Generation Y consumers in Namibia and the relationship between their decision-making styles and their learning styles, culture and e-literacy. Data were obtained by administering Sproles and Kendal’s Consumer Style Inventory (CSI), Felder & Silverman Index of Learning Style (ILS), Hofstede Cultural Dimensions, demographic and e-literacy questionnaires to a random sample of 505 respondents from the 3 (three) major Universities i...

An Analysis Of Mobile Information And Communications Technologies In Telecom Namibia: An Integration Architecture

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to analyze Mobile Information Communications Technologies (M-ICT) usage and recommend an integration architecture to Telecom Namibia (TN). The major problem of the research was the current usage of mobile technologies and the benefits of integration M-ICT in TN. The specific objectives are to assess the risk posed by the usage of mobile technologies to TN and to recommend suitable integration architecture for M-ICT in TN. The study is a quantitative rese...

Consumers’ Preferences And Willingness To Pay For Certified Vegetables In Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

ABSTRACT  The recent increase in consumers’ concern about safe food, particularly, certified food, is fueled by a number of food scandals that have resulted in illness and many death cases. This study assessed consumers’ perceptions and willingness to pay (WTP) for certified vegetables in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. A two stage random sampling method was employed to select 400 consumers from ten (10) sectors in Ouagadougou. A semistructured questionnaire which contained contingent valuati...

Tackling Electoral Violence In The Upper West Region Of Ghana

ABSTRACT  Since the return of Ghana to multiparty democratic regime from 1992 to 2008, Ghana has gone through five major successive general elections and has received numerous commendations all over the world. Incidentally, all these elections were associated with electoral violence. This study aimed at studying the causes, nature, and effects of electoral violence in the Upper West Region of Ghana. The objective of the study included how electoral violence affect the credibility of the elec...

Local Authorities And The Implementation Of Sustainable Development In Namibia

ABSTRACT Sustainable development has in the last three decades become a widely debated notion. Nevertheless the objective of achieving a state of sustainability has so far not been attained. The study examines reasons for this condition by investigating activities on the global, national and local levels, and examining various philosophies and approaches, to determine what constitutes sustainable development and sustainability. In the first chapter, the research problem, the objectives of th...

Enhancing Internationalisation Practices In Higher Education: A Case Of The University Of Namibia

ABSTRACT The world has become a global village, thus higher education has become increasingly international because students and academics have a choice to study or teach at preferred institutions. While interest in international education has increased over the years, various universities have developed policies and strategies for internationalisation, which act as a guide for their respective institutions. Despite the fact that the University of Namibia came into existence in 1992, compare...


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