4/10/12 Human Development Essay: Nigeria Life expectancy is how long an infant‚ at birth‚ is expected to live for if they are healthy and born with no birth defects or diseases. The life expectancy is determined by finding the median age that both males and females live up to. Trends illustrate that women have a longer life expectancy than men. In Nigeria‚ the overall life expectancy is 52.05 years. Life expectancy for men and women are respectively 48.95 years and 55.33 years. Short life expectancies
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Australia’s Digital Economy: Future Directions final report © Commonwealth of Australia 2009 This report is protected by copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968‚ and those explicitly granted below‚ all other rights are reserved. Except for the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and except where otherwise noted‚ this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativeWorks 2.5 Australia licence (the Licence). A copy of the Commons Deed
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DYNAMICS OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA‚ 1914-1999 Abstract: This article examines the intractable problem of constitutional engineering in Nigeria. It is asserted that the drafting of constitutions is a recurring decimal in Nigeria’s chequered political history. Right from the colonial period‚ Nigerians were barely involved in the art of constitution making while the British colonial overlords employed constitution making to consolidate their imperial strategies. Post colonial Nigerian
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proprietorship) with 500 employees or less.”- U.S. Govt. * According to Small Business act 1934‚” A business which is independently owned and operated and not dominant in its field” is a Small Business. * According to executive committee for national economic development‚ “A Small Business one of which processes at least two of the following characteristics: * -Managers are the owners‚ * -Capital supplier and the owner is individual or a small group‚ * -Worker and the owners are local‚ market may not be
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1.The Role of entrepreneurship in economic development of a country An entrepreneur can be regarded as a person‚ who has the initiative skill and motivation to set up a business or enterprise of his own and who always looks for high achievements. He is the catalyst for social change and works for the common good. They look for opportunities‚ identify them and seize them mainly for economic gains. An action oriented entrepreneur is a highly calculative individual who is always willing to undertake
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Introduction Governments the world over have long been investing in infrastructure in the hope of boosting economic development of their country. To study the relationship between infrastructure and economic development‚ we compared two journals; Infrastructure and Local Economic Development by Rives‚ J & Heaney‚ M. (1995) and Infrastructure and Economic Growth: The Nigeria Experience 1980-2006 by Enimola‚ S (2010). We chose these journals as the journal by Rives‚ J looked at the approach
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ENTERPRISES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Nigeria as a developing economy cannot achieve full development without the contribution of the small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). In most developed economies‚ the main stay of their economy has been attributed to the effectiveness of the small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) is accepted globally as a tool for empowering the citizenry and economic growth. It has been associated with the rapid economic growth of
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Electronic-Voting (also known as Biometric Voting) is the use of computer-based machine to display an election ballot and record the vote. E-voting machines typically use touch screens as the data entry method for a voter’s selection. E-voting is different from online voting‚ where users vote over the Internet. Under the e-voting system‚ polling stations would be equipped with e-voting machines which are also known as Direct-Recording Electronic voting systems (DRE). The voter is required to touch the icon
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PAGE THE ROLE OF MIDDLEMEN IN NIGERIAN ECONOMY (A CASE STUDY OF ANAMBRA NEW MARKET) BY OSAKWE ONYINYE THERESA FPN/S01/2009/2010/NDMKT/1091 TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MARKETING SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC NASARAWA NASARAWA STATE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF NATIONAL DIPLOMA (ND) IN MARKETING NOVEMBER 2010 APPROVAL PAGE I hereby submit this project for approval having met the requirement for the award of National Diploma (ND) in marketing in Federal
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Sustainable Development in Africa (Volume 12‚ No.7‚ 2010) ISSN: 1520-5509 Clarion University of Pennsylvania‚ Clarion‚ Pennsylvania SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF NIGERIA E. M. Okonkwo‚ O. J. Okunola and C. S. Ezeanyanaso National Research Institute for Chemical Technology‚ Basawa‚ Zaria‚ Nigeria ABSTRACT Like any nation in the world‚ the challenges facing the sustainability of technological advancement of chemical industry in Nigeria today
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