November 2013

Russian transnational entrepreneurs in Toronto: How the global capitalist economy influenced entrepreneurship

  One of the most interesting results of the collapse of the former Soviet Union is the emergence of successful cosmopolitan entrepreneurs from former Soviet Republics who have immigrated to countries, such as the United States and Canada, settling in metropolitan areas like Toronto and making millions establishing businesses in their new host countries. The author has chosen to study successful cosmopolitan...

Author(s): Alexander Shvarts

November 2013

Water spirits and the conservation of the natural environment: A case study from Zimbabwe

  Currently in Zimbabwe, there is serious environmental degradation. This work advocates that the traditional and modern approaches to natural environmental conservation could be integrated into a new conservation paradigm. Such integration would help restore to the Zimbabwean psyche a reverence for water spirits and a respect for the sacredness of the natural environment. The research finding shows that there...

Author(s): Collis Garikai Machoko

November 2013

A study of the underlying determinants of return migration of international return migrants to the Berekum Municipality, Ghana

  Different migration theories generate competing hypotheses regarding the underlying determinants of return migration. To unravel some of these claims, data from a survey involving 120 return migrants in the Berekum Municipality, Ghana were used to assess the underlying determinants for the return migration of Ghanaian migrants. The study adopted a quantitative approach to research involving simple random...

Author(s): YENDAW Elijah

November 2013

Assessing the extent of HIV/AIDS education and prevention among secondary school students in Oredo, Benin City, Nigeria

  Research has been carried out on the prevention of HIV/AIDS and is still on all over the world both in the developed and developing countries because of the morbidity and drain caused by the disease in the economy as well as the continuous increase in the downward trend of the age range of the young ones who engage in sexual activities. With an assessment of the extent of knowledge, findings from the survey...

Author(s): Mannie I. Omage and Benedicta O. Omage