A. Public expenditure and revenue management is a major headache for many countries. Having and maintaining a good expenditure and revenue management system is a primary goal of many governments especially in the developing world. Kariba‚ like many other developing countries is faced with so many public expenditure and management problems that need to be addressed urgently as the current state of the economy is nothing to write home about. Problems such as High levels of indiscipline in resource
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continued on whether these impoverished countries‚ the primary targets of the MDGs have actually done enough to take advantage of the global initiative. How sincere have they been this last 10 years in leveraging on the millennium goals to transform living conditions in their countries? How seriously have some of these countries been able to deal with internal official corruption which international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and UN agencies have identified as the greatest threat to MDGs
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Industrial Revolution the standard of living significantly improved. First way the standard of living was impacted was the houses being built much better than before. With new inventions homes were made better than ever before. “Every day is adding something to your comforts. Our houses are built better…” (Document 4). This is explains the houses being built better so people were more comfortable. Better homes led to the standard of living increasing so people were not living in dilapidated homes. Next
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Arsheen Aziz HST 333 Victorian England 4-26-14 The Standard of Living Debate in 18TH Century England The standard of living debate is essentially between two groups of people‚ the pessimists and the optimists. The optimists believe that the standard of living had increased over a specific time. The pessimists believe that it did not increase‚ that for some it actually decreased. Each historian studied the standard of living of the working class in England during the 18th century. There are
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government’s annual expenditure budget in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is estimated that over 90 percent of foreign aid projects in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are implemented by foreign consulting firms. Critics of argue that foreign aid substitutes domestic resources through declined savings‚ reduced government tax revenue and increased government consumption. Aid reduces fiscal deficit in these countries and sets free other resources which can be utilized for debt service and other expenditures. There is need
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Contribution of Agriculture and Petroleum Sector to the Growth and Development of the Nigerian Economy from 1960-2010 By 1 1 Aminu Umaru and 2Anono Abdulrahman Zubairu Department of Economics & 2Department of Management Technology School of Management and Information Technology Modibbo Adama University of Technology‚ Yola‚ Adamawa State‚ Nigeria. Abstract This paper investigates the contribution of agricultural sector and petroleum sector to the economic growth and development (GDP) of the Nigerian economy
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Nigeria gained its independence on October 1‚ 1960. In 1963 it became a Federal Republic and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa‚ with about 140 million people (2006 national census) and the largest concentration of Black people in the world. One in five Africans is a Nigerian. There are about 250 ethnic groups‚ with three major tribes constituting over 40 percent of the population: the Hausa‚ Ibo and Yoruba. Other major ethnic/linguistic groups
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Public Private Partnership (PPP or simply P3) - Nigeria’s New Paradigm for infrastructure Development By Bob M. Achanya President‚ Kogi PPP Forum Cooperative‚ North Central Nigeria. Introduction Public private partnership (PPP) has recently gained prominence as a term to describe a business relationship in which public and private resources are blended to achieve a goal or set of goals judged to be of mutual benefit both to the private entity and to the public. According to the UNECE (2008)
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The Impact of Small Scale Business on the Nigerian Economy Small Scale Businesses contribute immensely to the growth and development of the Nigerian economy. Some of these impacts are felt in the following areas: Increase in the nation’s Gross domestic product and Gross national product 1. Increase in Gross Domestic Product and Gross National Product The Gross National Product (GNP) is the total dollar value of all final goods and services produced for consumption in society during a particular
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Industrialization has not only changed the way the world do business but also changed the world itself. Fortunately‚ Nigeria is one of the countries that did not escape its impact. Industrialization is the process of social and economic change that transforms a human group from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one. It is a part of a wider modernization process‚ where social change and economic development are closely related with
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