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Motivated by the April 2015 World Bank Publication on MDGs which reveals that poverty has been declining in all regions of the world with the exception of African countries, this study investigates the effects of a plethora of foreign aid dynamics on inequality adjusted human development. Contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM technique with forward orthogonal deviations are employed. The empirical evidence is based on an updated sample of 53 African countries...
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This study investigates the effect of foreign aid on education and lifelong learning in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. Three main issues are assessed, notably: (i) the effect of aid on education; (ii) the incremental impact of aid on education and (iii) the effect of aid on lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is measured as the combined knowledge acquired during the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education. Foreign aid dynamics include: Total aid, aid from...
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Background: Health care is a demanding profession physically and mentally which contributes risk for mental distress. Even though it studied well in economically advanced nations, little is known among health professionals in Africa. The aim of this study was to assess prevalence and risk factors of mental distress among health professionals. Methods: This study was conducted from November 15, 2013 to December 15, 2013 at JUTH using an institution based cross-sectional study design. All...
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Background: Food borne diseases continue to be a major global health problem and are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Food handlers play a major role in the transmission of food borne pathogens via hands. This study aimed to assess the bacterial hand contamination and associated factors among food handlers working in the student cafeterias of Jimma University main campus. Methods and materials: A cross-sectional study was conducted from May 2012 to April...
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Background: Food borne diseases continue to be a major global health problem and are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Food handlers play a major role in the transmission of food borne pathogens via hands. This study aimed to assess the bacterial hand contamination and associated factors among food handlers working in the student cafeterias of Jimma University main campus. Methods and materials: A cross-sectional study was conducted from May 2012 to April...
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This study was carried out to determine the perception of Business Education Lecturers in Colleges of Education on the influence of retail store location and design on the impulse buying behaviour of consumers in north-west Nigeria. A survey research design was used for the study. The study was carried out in the North-west zone of Nigeria . The population of the study was 219 Business Education Lecturers in 10 Colleges of Education. The entire population was studied since it was small and...
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Skin bleaching is a public health problem in West Africa most studied in general population.We conducted a cross-sectional survey to evaluate the prevalence of the phenomenon in secondary schools in central Benin.The prevalence of voluntary depigmentation (VD) was 36.6%.The sex ratio was 0.49.Gender was statistically associated with VD (p value < 0.000).Bleaching products used were often hydroquinone (42.2%), and corticosteroid (22.7%).The mean duration of the practice was 20 months.Products...
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Background: A semi‑structured questionnaire was designed to ascertain laterality functions in randomly sampled population of 400 preclinical students of the University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. Methodology: Frequency in use of limbs in physical activities categorized as: Always if (>80%), usually if (>50–80%), or equally if (50%) of cases was used in grading this perception. Three hundred and sixty‑three questionnaires with well‑generated data were analyzed using Statistical...
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The role of the teachers is very essential in nation building.Colleges of Education provide a nation with professional teachers who are equipped with methodology and skills of teaching in pre-primary/Nursing, Primary and Junior Secondary levels of education in Nigeria.Essential, college of education are expected to provide full time courses in teaching, instruction and training and to conduct courses in education for qualified teachers.In order to achieve the objectives in colleges of...
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Unfolding environmental strains, especially due to climate change have continued to prompt local farmers to search for coping strategies within the constraints of limited resources. This paper investigated the agricultural adaptation strategies to climate change in some selected rural settlements in Sokoto State. A sample size of 234 respondents was used in this study. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data on the local farmers’ agricultural adaptation strategies. The variations...
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The paper examined strategies for agricultural adaptation to climate change in eight selected rural settlements in Kogi State, Nigeria. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data on the strategies for agricultural adaptation of 99 farmers using a systematic sampling technique. The adaptation strategies were weighted for comparison among the selected settlements while the overall evaluation of the variations of the adaptation strategies among the selected settlements was investigated...
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Teacher absenteeism is a big challenge posed to full realization of quality education for all in the world. This is especially so in developing nations. The purpose of the study was to Analyses social factors influencing teacher absenteeism in public primary schools in Kenya; with special reference to Nyamira South Subcounty. The specific objectives were; to determine the influence of social ties on teacher absenteeism, to establish the influence of schools’ culture on teacher absenteeism,...
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The effective and efficient management of education in Nigeria has be hampered by many factors such as the issue of funding, inadequate infrastructure, policy gap, data gap, corruption, political instability and interference among others. Among those factors, the issue of political interference seems to border stakeholders in the education sector. They often complain especially in the area of appointment of education officers which is been influence by politician thereby causing inefficiency...