Category Archives: International Journal of Management Studies, Business and Entrepreneurship Research 2017

Incidences of Trade and Entrepreneurship Implementation among Secondary Schools in Makurdi Metropolis

Elijah. A. Hime & Imborivungu, Terkimbi Emmanuel

Department of Vocational and Technical Education, Benue State University, Makurdi

University of Agriculture Makurdi, Demonstration Secondary School

Email: akaakaseh@gmail.com,emmyterk@gmail.com

Corresponding Author: Imborivungu, Terkimbi Emmanuel

ABSTRACT

The study examines the incidences of trade and entrepreneurship implementation among secondary schools in Makurdi Metropolis. Three purposes, research questions as well as three hypotheses were set for the study. The study adopted Expo-facto research design. The population of 54 senior secondary schools in Makurdi Metropolis was also used for the study. Six (6) senior secondary schools in Makurdi Metropolis which represents 10% of the population were sample for the study. The records of external examination for the period of three years and a self-developed questionnaire were used for the study. Upon successful validation, the instruments were trial tested in a pilot study. The reliability coefficient of the instruments was 0.78. The data collected was analyesd using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and t-test. The findings from the study revealed that both public and private secondary schools are not implementing trade and entrepreneurship subject properly in Makurdi Metropolis (P-value 0.22 is greater than 0.05 at df=4 and t=-1.45); and that trade and entrepreneurship subjects offered by students in public and private secondary schools in Makurdi Metropolis is not in line the specification stated in the national curriculum (P-value 0.18 is greater than 0.05 at df =4 and t=-2.12). The study also revealed that poor facilities and lack of teachers and supervision are some of the challenges confronting proper implementation of trade and entrepreneurship subject properly in Makurdi Metropolis (P-value 0.20 is greater than 0.05 at df =4 and t=-0.50). The recommendations were that proper implementation of trade and entrepreneurship subjects among secondary schools in Makurdi Metropolis should be given serious attention so as to achieve the goal of economic empowerment and self-reliance as well as poverty reduction in Benue State and Nigeria.

Assessing the Causes and Consequences of Costing Public Projects’ Contracts in Cameroon: Case of Public Buildings’ Projects in Buea & Limbe, South West Region

Francis A. Fumenya

Department of Economics and Management

University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Email: fuamenya@yahoo.co.uk

ABSTRACT

This study investigated several factors responsible for changes in the cost of construction that are associated with the direct cost elements under public projects’ contract e.g. materials labour and plants. The study relied and used both primary and secondary data. The primary data was obtained from files of projects initiated and completed between 2011 and 2016 in Buea and Limbe,South West Region, Cameroon Meanwhile, the documents studied for this purpose were bills of quantities and final accounts and reports. The secondary data was obtained through administering structured questionnaires to professionals in the industry. Simple descriptive statistics and regression techniques were used for the analysis. Building projects investigated were classified according to their functional uses as residential, commercial and institutional. Average changes in costs between estimates and final cost of these projects were 15.6%, 12.4% and 13.6% respectively. Part of the analysis showed that 46% of the contributions to the change in cost are material related while 32% are labour related and problems associated with plants and equipment contributed 22% to the change in cost. Several regressional equations for predicting final construction cost were proposed, using appropriate confidence intervals to enhance effective application of the models.

Assessment of Income Inequality among Rural Women Entrepreneurs in South -West, Nigeria

Ehinmowo, O. O. & Akinlade, R. J.

Department of Entrepreneurship

Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria

Email: Jummy120@yahoo.co.uk

Corresponding Author: Akinlade, R. J.

ABSTRACT

Inequality is a manifestation as well as a strong cause of poverty. Hence this study examined  income inequality among rural women entrepreneurs in Southwest, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 200 small scale cassava processors with the use of questionnaire. The data were subjected to descriptive statistics, Lorenz curve, Gini coefficient and Double-Log regression model. The findings showed that majority of the small scale cassava processors in Oyo, Osun and Ondo earned below N200, 000 per annum while most of the cassava processors in Ogun State earned above N600, 000 per annum.  The result of the Gini coefficient (0.58) showed that there was inequality among the respondents with Ogun state having the lowest (0.16). Also the results of the regression analysis showed that sex, number of family size and labour significantly affected the income of the small scale cassava processors in the study area. In conclusion, large household size should be discouraged among cassava processors in Southwest since it has reducing effect on income and invariably increase income inequality.

Keywords: Cassava processors, income inequality, small-scale enterprise, southwest, Nigeria