Journal of
Public Administration and Policy Research

  • Abbreviation: J. Public Adm. Policy Res.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-2480
  • DOI: 10.5897/JPAPR
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 151

Table of Content: December 2011; 3(10)

December 2011

Working poor and economic growth in some selected ECOWAS countries

  This paper discusses the interaction between working poor and income growth in some selected ECOWAS states. Unlike similar studies that focus on pro-poor growth in an economy, this study highlighted the basic issue in wealth creation by drawing on the issue that poverty can impact on growth of the economy. Relying on some principle developed by Kimenyi (2006) the study concluded that policies should be...

Author(s): Enoma Anthony

December 2011

Management of electricity generation and supply in Africa: The Nigerian experience

  Incessant power failures have caused irregular production and low utilization of resources in industries and educational institutions while the Nigerian government has also been embarrassed on several occasions when Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) switched off power during government official functions. The PHCN has thus become an object of ridicule and opprobrium for over two decades. The paper...

Author(s): Omoleke, I. I.

December 2011

Inducement of development communication on the administration of secondary schools in Delta State, Nigeria

  This study investigated the extent to which development communication induces the administration of secondary schools in Delta State. It is a survey study based on ex-post facto design. The researcher raised some questions and formulated three hypotheses were tested using z-test to guide the study. The target of the population of the study was 320 public secondary school principals and 9608 teachers in the...

Author(s): Nakpodia E. D.

December 2011

Teacher factors in the implementation of universal basic education programme in junior secondary schools in the south senatorial district of Delta State, Nigeria

  The study is an empirical research on teachers’ factors in the implementation of universal basic education (UBE) Programme. There were three research questions and three hypotheses to guide the study. As a descriptive survey, 205 teachers were sampled from a target population of 2,040 teachers in 120 junior secondary schools. Questionnaire was used to generate data. Data were analyzed using the mean and...

Author(s): Nakpodia E. D.