ABSTRACT The importance of economic growth and development for social welfare improvement cannot be overemphasized. For this reason, every country across the globe, especially, the developing and less developed ones, are making every effort necessary to develop and provide their citizens with an improved standard of living. These efforts include opening up their economies more to the rest of the world through international trade, capital flows and cooperation. Therefore, exchange rate policy...
ABSTRACT The study examines the nature of food Engel curve using total expenditure as a proxy for income. The Working-leser and the quadratic specifications of Engel’s model are employed and modified to include certain demographic characteristics of households. The study uses secondary data from the last four rounds of the Ghana Living Standard Survey. Results from the study show a significant relationship between budget share of food and total expenditure. The budget share of food also va...
ABSTRACT Studies conducted in recent times have indicated that women’s advancement into top echelon positions in organizations has been hindered by the glass ceiling barrier. The present study sought to identify the authenticity of this finding among managerial women in the Ghanaian context and how these barriers can be overcome. Using the Miles and Huberman’s approach, the in-depth interview responses of twelve women managers from four organizations in middle and senior levels were cont...
ABSTRACT Background: Asymptomatic malaria increases the risk of anaemia, stillbirths, spontaneous abortion, premature delivery and low birth weight. The asymptomatic nature of individuals with malaria has led to difficulties in diagnosing, inconsistencies in defining and a general lack of urgency to investigate this particular disease outcome and is a major hurdle for malaria elimination, as infected hosts serve as silent reservoirs for transmission of malaria. This study was aimed at identi...
ABSTRACT The scenario of banking in Ghana has been characterised by low capitalisation which exposes the financial system of the country to severe swallowing, together with widespread bank distress as a result of the prolonged economic crisis. Consequently, bank investments have been hampered. It was therefore imperative for the Bank of Ghana to take drastic measures of bank recapitalisation, which is the core of global bank reforms. The Bank of Ghana, in 2009, issued a directive for all ban...
ABSTRACT This study attempts to assess the effects of management skills on performance of SMEs in Tanzania. The study concentrates on Micro and Small enterprises in Dodoma Municipality where descriptive research design was adopted. A total number of 60 respondents constituted the sample. The sample understudy was Micro and Small enterprises owners/managers. The respondents were interviewed by using structured questionnaire. The analysis was carried out by using descriptive statistics, gross m...
ABSTRACT This study was established to assess the contribution of technology on internal audit in the public sector. The study has examined the perceptions of audit officers in application of information technology in audit issues, explored the contribution made by IT in implementing audit activities and investigated on the challenges facing the application of IT in internal audit issues in the public sector. The research used a case study methodology where multiple cases were taken and colle...
Abstract This paper examined the position and roles of current secondary education planning towards achievement of the new framework of industrial economy in the context of Tanzania. The paper focused on examining: i) the contribution of secondary school graduates towards industrial economy; ii) the influence of modern industrialization in the rural development within the framework of five year development plan 2016-2020 and iii) the role of industrialization process in plummeting rural-urban...
ABSTRACT For the last two decades, HIV/AIDS epidemic has spread all over the Tanzania affecting all segments of life and youth in particular. VCT is one of the important components of HIV prevention which aim at behavior change and ensures HIV/AIDS status of a particular person. The purpose of the study was to determine youth perception and response towards HIV/AIDS and VCT in Higher learning Institutions. For the purpose of this study, University of Dodoma, S.T Johns University and Institute...
ABSTRACT This study aimed to assess the urban growth and environmental solid waste management in Dodoma Municipality. From the data given by National Bureau of Statistics shows that Dodoma Municipal is growing faster. For the purpose of obtaining sufficient data the specific objectives and research questions included: factors responsible for the urban growth and source of solid waste disposal in different parts of Dodoma Municipality, the trend of environmental waste management condition in D...
ABSTRACT Intellectual capital is considered as a knowledge that is of value to the business organization. Despite vast of studies in intellectual capital (IC), the status has remained unknown with regard to Africa, Tanzania in specifics. This research intended to study the influence of intellectual capital on financial performance of manufacturing firms in Tanzania. The study employed quantitative research approach and diagnostic research design to measure the influence of intellectual capita...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted in Zanzibar at ZECO to investigate the factors influencing implementation of performance appraisal system in public organization. The literature review that Performance appraisal system was introduced in July 2004 and was implemented for a minimum of three years all over the country, to all central and local agencies of the government. However, little change can be seen judging by the services delivered by the public sector. From the field data collection was ...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed at assessing the impacts of land use change i.e. changing the use of village land from agricultural based activities to other uses like construction, mining industries etc in cities and municipal villages’ i.e., villages in town vicinity and to what extent has these changes have affected people’s livelihood in these villages and especially their food security. Applied were qualitative and quantitative methods of which cross-sectional survey method based on cas...
ABSTRACT The management of waste is one of the challenges facing many urban areas especially in the developing countries. This study identified by laws/regulations related to solid wastes disposal in the study area in Dodoma Municipality as a case study. A total of 140 respondents were involved in the study, data were descriptively analyzed for frequencies, percentage and tables, the interviews using questions were the main data collection methods used. The analysis of the collected data indi...
ABSTRACT This study examined tax revenue instability, and its consequences in Tanzania from 1996 to 2015. To identify the determinants of revenue stability, this study adopted case study analysis. The study mainly based on secondary data maintained by the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and World Development Indicators (WDI). The dependent variables in this study are Public spending and Public Investment which have regressed against revenue instability as an independent variable. Overall tax...