CHALLENGES OF MICROFINANCE BANKING IN NIGERIA-1 Nigerians‚ like many other Africans are generally known as their brother’s keepers in view of the extended family system. But when truly analyzed‚ there is a possibility that this may not be so? Perhaps a hypothetical deep may reveal that not up to 10% of Nigerians would invest in ventures or people that would yield them nothing in return and here I mean‚ “Returns in the short run or in the immediate”. The returns may be financial‚ emotional‚ spiritual
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CHALLENGES OF MEDIA WOMEN IN NIGERIA By ANIMASHAUN Rofiah‚ Olateju IFRA- Research Fellow‚ Peace and Conflict Studies Programme‚ Institute of African Studies‚ University of Ibadan‚ Ibadan‚ Nigeria. rofiatanimashaun@yahoo.com[->0] +234-8038-8166-28 +234-8051-3756-70 Abstract Recent survey shows that the number of women
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percentage of which is involved in own account enterprises (meaning entrepreneurial ventures‚ mostly informal-unregistered ones). The above facts conjure up an interesting collage. Can the above facts be used to build up a term as ‘informal entrepreneurship’? We believe our rural counterparts indeed outdo us as far as the number of entrepreneurs is concerned‚ though they may be informal OAEs. Gandhi’s vision of India as a self-sufficient village economy could not be realized. However‚ the figures
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JORIND (9)1 June‚ 2011. ISSN 1596-8303. www.transcampus.org/journals. www.ajol.info/journals/jorind THE CHALLENGES OF ADOPTING INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING SYSTEM IN NIGERIA Anthony O. Garuba Department of Accounting and Finance‚ Western Delta University‚ Oghara‚ and Pat Donwa Department of Accounting‚ University of Benin‚ Benin City E-mail: anthonygaruba@yahoo.com Abstract Nigeria is going to adopt International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) from 1st January 2012. Globalization and Information
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GROWTH IN NIGERIA: THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP Raheem Olasupo Akewushola Department of Business Administration and Management Technology Lagos State University‚ Lagos‚ Nigeria. Olawale Ibrahim Olateju Department of Business Administration and Management Technology Lagos State University‚ Lagos‚ Nigeria. Oludare Tolulope Adeyemi Dimension Consult Limited‚ Lagos‚ Nigeria ABSTRACT This paper identified crucial factors influencing the growth and development of entrepreneurship activity
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Role of entrepreneurship in economic development Entrepreneur 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 looks for opportunities‚ identifies them and seizes them mainly for economic gains. An action oriented entrepreneur is a highly calculative individual who is always willing to undertake
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Nowadays‚ with the developing of economic development is facing a new challenge. The notions of entrepreneurship‚ innovation and creativity become more widely used in business world and Naude (2010) notes that these fields are converging increasingly in recent years. Entrepreneurship has been regarded as the engine of dynamic economic development and growth (Ylinenpaa‚ 2009). Moreover‚ Minniti (1999) states that entrepreneurship scholars are catalysts for economic development because of the generation
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Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship is the attempt to create value through recognition of business opportunity‚ the management of risk taking appropriate to the opportunity and through the communicative and management skills to mobilize human financial and material resources necessary to bring a project to fruition. According to A. H. Cole‚ "Entrepreneurship is activity of an individual‚ undertaken to initiate‚ maintain or aggrandize profit by production or distribution of economic goods and services
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Entrepreneurship‚ Innovation and Economic Development “‘Discuss the relationship between entrepreneurship‚ innovation and economic development. What role do creativity and problem solving play in this relationship?” In today’s world‚ entrepreneurship and innovation are becoming increasingly crucial as drivers of the economy‚ especially so in the developing economies where trade plays a major part in generating revenue. In China‚ small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for almost
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