January 2011
The up and down sides of oil and gas development in the Wood Buffalo Region of Alberta, Canada: Positioning Ghana for progressive gains
Socio-economic benefits and challenges are consequential to oil and gas development, and effective planning is key to advancing favourable development outcomes. Drawing from Canada’s experience, this paper indicates that employment opportunities directly related to construction and operation of oil and gas production plants and indirect spin-off jobs needed to support the sector (e.g., manufacturing,...
January 2011
Understanding local self governance - An applied research perspective
The following paper is about the working of an intermediary research organization in the area of local governance in India. The Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, Bangalore, India has used budget analysis to understand the issue of local governance. Budgets are used to interpret the political will of the government in taking up schemes in the various sectors. It is an important instrument to understand the...
January 2011
Sulabh sanitation and social reform movement
The sanitation situation in India has been dismal both in urban and rural areas and only few towns have provision of sewage system. A small number of people use septic tanks and only two systems are prevalent on large scale, that is, defecation in the open and manual cleaning of human excreta by the class of people called ‘human scavengers’. The technology of two-pit, pour-flush toilet (popularly known as...
January 2011
Early childhood education: An overview
This paper x-rayed pre-primary education as one of the sub systems and policies in the National Policy on Education (2004) that has been neglected and is failing in Nigeria. Several years after its publication (1977) and revised four times, there is still a very yawning gap between policy formulation and implementation. Pre-primary education, which ordinarily is supposed to be the foundation stone of our...
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