May 2010

Socio-economic determinants of contraceptive use among rural women in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria

  The study examined the socio-economic determinants of contraceptive use among rural women in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State. The study was conducted in the four clans in the area. Ikwuano was purposively selected because of its classification as rural and high dependence on agriculture. Data for the study were collected through a service questionnaire. A total of 200 women were randomly selected...

Author(s): C. A. Okezie A. O. Ogbe and C. R. Okezie

May 2010

Unemployment, curriculum outcomes, psycho-social characteristics, and college of education graduates’ entrepreneurial abilities

  The study adapted an ex-post facto design to predict the effect of curriculum outcomes, personality traits, common business practices, and gender role-stereotypes on entrepreneurial abilities of College of Education graduates. The sample was 86 College of Education graduates. These were purposively drawn in their denomination as those who were self-employed 23 (26.7%), government employed 25 (29.1%)...

Author(s):   Abam Arikpo, Eteng Eloma, C. O. O. Kolawole, Agborbechem Peter and S. N. Oden

May 2010

Reviewing NGOs' media strategies: Possibilities for NGO-media collaboration

  With the emergence of exploding forms of media and ever greater variety of internationally vocal non-governmental organizations including multinational corporations, the field of public diplomacy and international relations is infinitely more complex. The fluid equation of public and private forces on the world of international communication and public diplomacy is the crosscutting issues in the multimodal...

Author(s): Sundar Kumar Sharma

May 2010

Fertility decline and women’s status: A micro data analysis of the role of non-government organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh

  In the last two decades, Bangladesh has achieved considerable fertility decline despite pervasive poverty and under development. Unfortunately, recent statistics suggest that despite continued increase in contraceptive use, the fertility decline has stalled. Thus Bangladesh becomes an interesting case study for exploring the question of what factors are necessary to bring about further fertility decline. In...

Author(s): Md. Abdul Goni and Osamu Saito