Top-up Degrees (Entry to year 3 – UK Universities) Acceptance to a university programme is at the discretion of the individual university Top-up degrees are of one year duration‚ entering onto the final year of the full time undergraduate BA / BSc Honours degrees. Students who have an HND (Higher National Diploma) may progress onto the final year of a degree programme‚ subject to unit grade performance at HND‚ and English language capability (usually IELTS 6.0) The following universities
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IMPROVED REVENUE GENERATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION Local governments operate at the grassroots and are expected to provide services to their stakeholders. In a federal system like Nigeria‚ local governments are close to the people and hence could effectively alter socioeconomic and political conditions within their jurisdictions. Apart from providing and maintaining basic infrastructures‚ local governments can complement the economic activities of other levels of government. This
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ANALYSIS OF KENYA’S GOVERNMENT REVENUE From the analysis Taxes seem to be the major source of revenue to the government since in the year 2006/7 it accounted for 93.16% of the total revenue‚ in the year 2007/8 it accounted for 94.91% of total revenue and in the year 2008/9 it amounted 94.71%. This is a good sign since the tax revenue/total government revenue is ideally required to be above 50%. The following classes of taxes were the major sources of revenue for the government: • Taxes on income
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AN APPRAISAL OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY IN NIGERIA By Adelana‚ Olamide Samson olamidelana@gmail.com +234 802 286 8888 Local Government is one of man ’s oldest institutions. The earliest form of Local governments exists in the form of clan and village meetings. In fact‚ democracy itself originated and developed along the lines of local governance initiatives in the ancient Greek city states. One of the major functions of LG is to bring about meaningful development in the rural areas. As
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Macroeconomics of Minimum Wage Draft: Do not quote MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF MINIMUM WAGE IN NIGERIA: A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS Abiodun O. Folawewo* Abstract This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of minimum wage (MW) policy in Nigeria using a static computable general equilibrium. Data for the study is drawn from year 2005 National Account of the country. The data is used to construct a 22 x 22 social accounting matrix (SAM) for the economy. The calibration exercise shows that the
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country; this is a measure of the economic performance of the country while government expenditure is refered to as an outflow resources from government to other sectors of the economy‚ government expenditure (or government spending) includes all government consumption‚ investment but excludes transfer payments made by the state. Government expenditure is subdivided into recurrent and capital expenditures. Capital expenditure can be defined as payment for non-financial assets used in production for
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CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY THE EFFECT OF THE GOVERNMENT HEALTH EXPENDITURES ON MORTALITY RATE. Submitted to: Dr. Peter Mihalyi Submitted by: Narmina Rustamova Abstract. In this paper I analyze the impact of the government healthcare expenditures‚ as a percentage of gross domestic product‚ on mortality rate per 1000 population in the age group of 15-60. In order to make the estimation results more specific I add the employment rate of females to the initial
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ONE: Introduction 1.1 Overview 1 1.2 Statement of the problem 3 1.3 Objective/Purpose of the study 5 1.4 Research questions 5 1.5 Research Hypotheses
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Theoretical review a. The Nature and Classification of Public Expenditure b. Theories of Public Expenditure c. Causes\ Goals of Public Expenditure d. Effects Of Public Expenditure 3. Conclusion Introduction Economic theory postulates that government or the state has 5 basic functions: 1. Promotion of economic growth and development 2. Maintenance of price stability 3. Seek favourable balance of payment 4. Facilitate full employment
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Government spending and revenues in China and America International accounting four 0092962 Chen Yuting Public finance is a subject about the taxing and spending activities of government. Considering the function of government‚ two opposite views stand out. One is organic view of government. The main idear is that the government can be though of as the society’s heart. Another is mechanisitic view of government. It insists that government is not an organic part of society while it is a contrivance
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