IMPACT OF THE INFORMAL ECONOMY ON DEVELOPMENT. What is Informal economy? Simply put the informal economy refers to those economic activities that are neither taxed nor monitored by a government and are therefore not included in that government ’s Gross National Product (GNP) However in literature this phenomenon is discussed using different concepts such as informal‚ unofficial‚ irregular‚ parallel second underground‚ underground‚ grey markets‚ subterranean‚ hidden‚ invisible‚ unrecorded
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has no storage and delivery costs. Customers take on a number of functions which mean that eBay does not incur conventional operating costs in a number of areas. 2. in addition to providing storage and delivery‚ eBay’s customers are its product development‚ market research‚ merchandising and sales department. 3. eBay began in 1995 when Pierre Omidyar created Auction Web‚ an internet-based auction site‚ partly to help his girlfriend to trade her products. 4. interview every single person leaving
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Joseph Department of Sociology Landmark University 2013 Nigerian Society and Development: Constraints and Ways Forward Abstract One of the main issues in development debates is how to tackle rural underdevelopment. The constraints to developing the rural areas as well as the problems of this critical sector have come to loom very large. For over four decades in Nigeria‚ all attempts to put the rural areas on course of development have failed. Conditions have continued to worsen and poverty
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Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies Volume: 2 – Issue: 3 – July - 2012 The Role of Humor in the Construction of Satire in Nigerian Political Cartoons Sani‚ I.‚ Abdullah‚ M.H.‚ Ali‚ A.M. and Abdullah‚ F.S Department of English‚ Faculty of Modern Languages and Communications‚ University Putra Malaysia‚ Serdang‚ Malaysia Abstract The communicative functions of humor and its visual power have made political cartoons an interesting research field
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www.ccsenet.org/gjhs Global Journal of Health Science Vol. 4‚ No. 1; January 2012 The Effects of HIV/AIDS Scourge on Production and Income among Rural Households in Adamawa State of Nigeria Iya‚ I. B.‚ Purokayo‚ S. G.‚ & Gabdo Yusuf Department of Economics Federal University of Technology‚ Yola‚ Nigeria Received: October 12‚ 2011 doi:10.5539/gjhs.v4n1p245 Abstract The paper investigates the determinants and the impact of HIV/AIDS on households in Adamawa State. 120 respondents affected with HIV/AIDS
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INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE NIGERIAN ENVIRONMENT: PARADOX AND REALITY[1] BY AbbasBashir Department of Geography‚ School of Envirinmental sciences‚ Modibbo Adama University of Technology‚Yola‚ Nigeria Email: bashirmafindi@yahoo.com Introduction The Nigerian nation like most other developing countries have shown high regards for‚ and indeed embarked on different schemes and policies of industrial development because it is generally believed that industrialization
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Role concepts Anita C. Perkins Research College of Nursing Role development in Advanced Nursing NU6060 Dr. Jan Andrews February 04‚ 2013 Role concepts This article touched on the role concept of transition that the nurse practitioner experiences when starting out in their new role. The key theme of the article was role transition. Role transition is a change in the direction from one state to another state and functioning in a different manner (Hunter & Lops‚ 1996). In this article
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The Impact of Terrorism In Nigeria: In view of the recent Attacks by Boko Haram The Threats of Terrorism in Nigeria; in veiw of the recent attacks by Boko Haram Introduction. The word terrorism was first used in France to describe a new system of government adopted during the French Revolution (1789-1799). From that time on‚ terrorism has had a decidedly negative connotation. The word‚ however‚ did not gain wider popularity until September 11‚ 2001‚ when Osama Bin Laden masterminded a
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technology has become an important component of an overall strategy in banks. Writing on new technologies and performance enhancement in the banking industry‚ (Ovia‚ 1997‚ p.2) stated that the new technologies have created unparalleled wired economy. The transfer of money from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’ has resulted in turning the actual money into bits and bytes through satellite transponders‚ fibre optic cables or regular telephone lines. Banks utilize computer based systems as well as telecommunication
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Taxation of U.S. Non-Resident Aliens and Foreign Corporations Baker College of Muskegon Elizabeth Lamas Taxation of U.S. Non Resident Aliens and Foreign Corporations Throughout this quarter we have learned how different entities are taxed‚ but we have not learned how foreign corporations and nonresident aliens are taxed. The purpose of this research paper is to discuss the basic concepts of how these two entities are taxed in the United States. A foreign corporation is any corporation that
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