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Impact of Boko Haram activities in the Lake Chad region of Africa
(2018-08-29)
The Boko Haram insurgency has remained the single major security threat to peace, stability and development in the Lake Basin and its fringes. The countries sharing common boundaries along the Lake Chad continue to grapple ...
Impact of social capital on preparedness and response to Boko Haram insurgency in Northeast Nigeria
(International Humanitarian Studies Association, 2016-03)
Boko Haram insurgency has precipitated humanitarian tragedy on a scale comparable to the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) and arguably the worst of any man made or natural disaster in Nigeria's history. The Internal Displacement ...
Does Entrepreneurship Skill Mediate Entrepreneurial Intention in a Turbulent Environment?
(Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2018-11)
Scholarly research on entrepreneurship education (EE) sometimes fails to grapple with the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship education provision, and the impact of this on intention studies. Entrepreneurship education can ...
Picking up the pieces: social capital and entrepreneurship for livelihood recovery among displaced populations in Northeast Nigeria
(Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2019-11)
In the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the rate of forced displacement, often precipitated by persecution, civil wars, terrorism, transborder conflicts, as well as natural disasters. The United ...
Tax compliance cost: the hidden effect on international trade in Africa
(British Accounting and Finance Association, 2019-04-08)
International trade in Africa could be one of the antidotes to the precarious poverty and economic deficiency in which the continent finds itself. An outward orientation towards international trade opens the continent to ...
Displaced, excluded, moving on: a study of refugee entrepreneurship in Kenya
(Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2019)
The global refugee crisis has grown in scale over the last 30 years. There are currently 25.4million refugees worldwide of whom 85 percent reside in developing countries (UNHCR, 2019). As a result of the protracted violence ...
Universal basic education in Nigeria: can non-state actors make a difference?
(Emerald, 2019-04-01)
Against the backdrop of falling standards and failing government policies in the education sector in Nigeria, this paper investigates how and why non-state actors can make significant impact towards the achievement of ...
Institutional barriers to successful innovations: perceptions of rural farmers and key stakeholders in southwest Nigeria
(Taylor and Francis, 2014-12-16)
Diffusion studies in sub-Saharan Africa have typically focused on the impact of traditional adoption factors on uptake of technological innovations. This study draws on semi-structured interviews of rural farmers and ...
Impact of cooperative membership on farmers' uptake of technological innovations in Southwest Nigeria
(Taylor and Francis, 2014-11-27)
The underutilization of agriculture in Nigeria with attendant low yield per hectare is generally attributed to lack of innovation to cope with the challenges of climate change and land degradation. In this study, using ...
Is women empowerment a zero sum game? Unintended consequences of microfinance for women’s empowerment in Ghana
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018)
Purpose:
Against the background of growing concerns that development interventions can sometimes be a zero sum game, the purpose of this paper is to examine the unintended consequences of microfinance for women empowerment ...
