Effect of youth “Rural-Urban Migration” on child labour use in rice production in Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State was undertaken in this study. A total of one hundred and twenty (120) respondents were selected using multi-stage random sampling technique across...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/27427
Reserve Officer Training Unit (ROTU) is one of the co-curriculums activities that created only by public higher education institutions in Malaysia. The main objective of the establishment ROTU is to provide highly skilled and qualified personnel for conducting the reserve team of...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/27125
The study was on economics of cocoyam production in Anambra State. Data used were generated through structured questionnaire and interview schedules administered on 120 cocoyam farmers selected randomly from the study area. Net farm income analysis was used to capture the profita...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/27424
This paper empirically examined the impact of domestic debt on economic growth of Nigeria for the period 1985-2014 using annual time series data on variables as gross domestic product, treasury bonds, development stocks, federal government of Nigeria bonds and interest rate, sour...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/27224
This study examines the impact of foreign direct investment on the growth of the Nigeria stock market from 1984 to 2015 using co integration, vector error correction model and pair wise granger causality econometric process in the estimation of the variables specified in the regr...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/28573
Aims: This paper examined the effect of compulsion in studying mathematics and future career influence of mathematics on student interest in mathematics. Study Design: This paper used mixed mode design to investigate the effect of compulsion and future career influence on the stu...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/27543
This study examined power supply; average installed manufacturing capacity utilization and unemployment in Nigeria from 1980 to 2013. Unemployment and unsteady power supply are two common challenges confronting most developing economies. Its impact leads to compounded social vice...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/27683
Adolescent mother with children outside marriage are current issues of debate among people in the world today, especially in the 21st century. Thus, when teenagers get pregnant, the potential harm to the mother, the child and society at large can be very far-reaching, especially...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/27282
This study focused on factor analysis of SMEs’ challenges and its implications on poverty and unemployment in Dekina. The study investigated the prime factor influencing SMEs’ entrepreneurial activities, and its relationship with poverty and unemployment in Dekina. In regard of t...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/27215
This research focuses on exploring the impact of poor utilization of land on sustainable human development. Poor land utilization is a serious global problem with diverse implications for socio-economic and sustainability of human development, particularly in the contemporary Nig...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/26998
This study examined the impact of public debt on economic development of Nigeria using annual time series data spanning 1986 to 2014. The study employed the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test, Johansen co-integration test, Error Correction Method (ECM) and the Granger Causality test. T...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/27263
This study examined the implications of rising public debt on unemployment in Nigeria (1980-2015) using the auto regressive distributed lag model and Wald test econometric analytic tools. The findings of the study indicate a long run relationship between the dependent and indepen...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/26394
The most important determinant of a country’s competitiveness is its human talent — the skills and productivity of its workforce. The strongest, safest and most prosperous societies are those in which women are empowered and the genders are more equal. Gender equality is not a wo...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/26525
The paper focuses on Analysis of Housing Problems in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT); Abuja. A total of 491 Questionnaire were collected and subjected to descriptive statistical analysis. Also, focus group discussion (FGDs) involving seven (7) peopl...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/26333