Author: Oluwakemi Bolaji OkuwaVolume: 58 Issue No:3 Year:2016Abstract: Education is both a private and social investment that is shared by individuals – students, their families, employers; government; and other groups, including international agencies. The sharing arrange...
Author: Risikat Oladoyin S. DaudaVolume: 58 Issue No:2 Year:2016Abstract: This study examines the factors influencing public higher education spending in Nigeria with a view to deriving implications for the post2015 global development agenda. Most studies examine this issue ...
Author: P.C. Obutte, D. Akabuiro, A. Iwayemi & A. AdenikinjuVolume: 58 Issue No:2 Year:2016Abstract: The imperative of effective regulatory governance in the context of deregulated energy markets has been an important policy issue on the global economic and political age...
Author: Bilkisu Aliyu Abubakar, Yahya Zakari Abdullahi & Shuaibu AdamuVolume: 58 Issue No:3 Year:2016Abstract: Corporate governance has increasingly become a field of study arising from the increasing number of high profile corporate failures around the world. The main o...
Author: Abiodun S. Bankole & Basiru O. FataiVolume: 58 Issue No:3 Year:2016Abstract: Equitable distribution of opportunities accruing to people from economic growth such as employment generation and poverty reduction brings about inclusive growth. This paper examines the...
Author: Lionel Effiom & Ebi Bassey OkonVolume: 58 Issue No:3 Year:2016Abstract: Against the backdrop of a declining economy, occasioned by falling oil prices, factory closures, job losses, escalating prices due to surging exchange rate, waning GDP growth, weakening inves...
Author: Joshua S. Adeyele & Jackson O. OlujideVolume: 58 Issue No:3 Year:2016Abstract: Retirement decision is an important stage of the employment cycle under Defined Contribution (DC). In 2004, many employees believed that by switching from Defined Benefit (DB) plans to...
Author: Akpan H. Ekpo, Douglason G. Omotor & Sam OmoruyiVolume: 58 Issue No:3 Year:2016Abstract: The current global sharp decline of oil price raises concern about the responses of monetary policymakers of oil export-dependent countries to the price decline. The paper re...
Author: Uche Isiugo-AbaniheVolume: 58 Issue No:3 Year:2016Abstract: With an estimated population of 186.5 million in 2016 and annual population growth rate in excess of 2.5 per cent, Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country, and the seventh most populous country in the wo...
Author: Abiodun Oluwole Folawewo, Solomon Abayomi Olakojo & Adeniyi Jimmy AdedokunVolume: 58 Issue No:2 Year:2016Abstract: This paper revisits the relationship between risks, uncertainties and FDI inflows in Africa, using recent data and twelve different measures of risk...
Author: Uka EzenweVolume: 58 Issue No:1 Year:2016Abstract: This paper examines the damaging effects of corruption on the Nigerian economy. Corruption raises transaction costs, lowers efficiency of public expenditure, discourages foreign direct investment and undermines every...
Author: Adeolu O. Adewuyi and Adebowale M. AdelekeVolume: 58 Issue No:1 Year:2016Abstract: This study examined the long-run and short-run effects of resource abundance and institution on inclusive growth (and its components) in Nigeria. Employing annual data spanning the per...
Author: Kabiru SalamiVolume: 58 Issue No:1 Year:2016Abstract: Most studies on urban housing in Nigerian cities have intrinsically addressed its locational advantage to social amenities and its influence on social capital and the well-being of its inhabitants, including the g...
Author: Adekunle Oluwole Binuyo and Rafiu Adewale AregbesholaVolume: 58 Issue No:1 Year:2016Abstract: The positive effect of financial market development on economic growth is well documented in literature. Various studies in this regard tilt more towards the role of domesti...
Author: Abiodun Surajudeen Bankole, Muritala Kewuyemi Kareem and Musibau Adekunle OladapoVolume: 58 Issue No:1 Year:2016Abstract: Some economists are of the view that fluctuations in aggregate production in a market economy, which now appear to feature more frequently, are c...
Author: Anton Eberhard and Marek RaciboskiVolume: 58 Issue No:1 Year:2016Abstract: Africa is short of power and the poor performance of its electricity utilities undermines sustainable development. Over the past two decades, power sector reforms across the continent have sou...
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Author: Yingigba C. Akinyemi & Patricia I. AjayiVolume: 57 Issue No:2 Year:2015Abstract: This paper examines the factors that influence the energy-saving behaviour of households as regards electricity consumption in Ibadan metropolis. A survey of household energy-saving ...
Author: Adeolu O. Adewuyi and Olabanji B. AwodumiVolume: 57 Issue No:3 Year:2015Abstract: The study investigates the role of exports, imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) in inclusive growth in Nigeria over the period 19862013. This study follows the recent theoretica...