February 2009
Sustainable rural finance: Prospects, challenges and implications
Market failures in rural finance and related issues of adverse selection, moral hazard, and transaction costs justify targeted interventions to ensure that services reach the poor and the un-banked sustainably. Service providers aiming at sustainability cannot rely on donor money and instead they have to generate their own operational income from provision of efficient services and setting the price for their services...
February 2009
Strategies for social and cultural inclusion on development and natural resource management
In this paper, we present some strategies to improve community work that resulted from 24 small projects in 14 communities distributed through 7 States of Southeast Mexico. The proposal recovers views and opinions of local populations about technical and social factors that shape community action. We obtained people’s input through a series of participatory evaluation workshops carried out during 10 consecutive...
February 2009
Persisting poverty, unemployment/underemployment in Cross River State, Nigeria: The urgency of improving good governance and participation in the state economic empowerment and development strategy
Civil society contribution to social and economic development has been acknowledged and documented in the literature. Ruefully, despite the disappointing results of development planning concentrated at the national federal level and imposed from the federal capitals of Nigeria from the gaining of political independence in 1960 to the 1990s and the decision at the dawning of the 21stCentury that the rather “top...
February 2009
The prospect of UBE programme in Akwa Ibom State, south-south Nigeria
In this paper, the origin of Universal Basic Education (UBE), its objectives, contents and problems facing the implementation of the programme have been discussed. The major problems facing the success of the UBE programme in Akwa Ibom state were found to include, population explosion and lack of qualified/adequate teachers. Measures that can be adopted to correct some of these failures have been highlighted. The...
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