This paper documents Nigeria’s economic development experience over the period 1914 – 2014. The paper shows that the economy has metamorphosed from Agro economy to oil economy. We find that agricultural sector contributed over 60% of the GDP in the 1960s. Despite the reliance of Nigerian peasant farmers on traditional tools and indigenous farming methods, they produced 70% of Nigeria's exports and 95% of its food needs. Again, the economy moved from export producing economy to import consuming economy with little or no evidence of further paradigm shift. This paper evaluates the various development policies in Nigeria and the socio- economic effects of these major economic developmental programmes such as inward-outward looking programme, indigenization programme, and structural adjustment programme up till the vision 20: 2020 programme. The paper asserts that Nigeria, though over a century old now, has witnessed slow pace of economic development and had been hindered by years of colonization, military rule, corruption, political interest (ethnicity, militancy, and insurgency) and mismanagement. Nonetheless, her achievements include being the 12th largest producer of petroleum in the world. Nigeria also has a wide array of underexploited mineral resources which include natural gas, coal, bauxite, gold, tin, iron ore, limestone, lead and zinc. However, the paper concludes that the slow pace in development is neither lack of planning nor inadequate planning, but that political expediency usually overrides economic rationality in her development programme implementations.

This paper examined empirically if Kenya‟s pattern of trade with India is consistent with Heckscher-Ohlin theory, using a fixed-effect panel data model and macroeconomic variables for the period 1970 to 2013. The findings indicate a strong trade relation between Kenya and India, with Kenya specializing in the exportation of primary products to India. Overall, the findings indicate that the Kenya–India trade relation is consistent with the factor proportions theory, which spells out the trade relationship between the North – South poles. The paper recommends that Kenyan government should encourage Indian investors to establish subsidiaries of their manufacturing companies in Kenya in order to reduce the cost of importation of capital intensive goods and create jobs in the domestic economy.

This study investigates the job burnout components impact on manufacturing workers job commitment since burnout known as a syndrome that influences employees’ motivation and their commitment level. As well, each organization also aims to increase the company profit and productivity by reducing the level of strain among their workers which may reduce the performance and commitment level. The present study also aim to investigate if there is any significant relationship between emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment and depersonalization towards job commitment among the manufacturing workers in Melaka. There have been limited study done in manufacturing sector and this study focused on manufacturing sector, in order to minimize the negative effect on employee productivity and their commitment level. The Maslach Burnout Instrument-Human Service Survey (MBI-HSS) and Employee Commitment Survey (ECS) were used in this study. This study examines the direct relationship between emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment on job commitment. A quantitative approach with descriptive analysis method and multi-stage sampling method were used in this study. Where, cluster method was conducted followed by stratified and simple random sampling method. A total of 780 questionnaires were distributed to the manufacturing workers in Melaka who had agreed to participate in this study. However, out of it only 518 questionnaires were returned and about 383 questionnaires were usable for further analysis. Results showed that emotional exhaustion and depersonalization were significantly negatively associates with job commitment while personal accomplishment was significantly positively associates with job commitment.

Higher education falls outside the ambit of merit category since the personal benefit from higher education exceeds the social benefit. In this milieu, the heavy spending on higher education by the government led to some structural changes withdrawing the huge subsidy elements and allowing the entry of private providers in higher education. However there are fairly large amount of subsidy on higher education even at present. The rationality of subsidy as well as fee can be found out only in terms of the cost incurred for providing the education and comparing it with fee collected from the student. The paper is an attempt to find out the unit cost of providing medical education particularly the MBBS course in Kerala and the rationality of the fee charged by the government and self financing institutions. The study found that there is a mark-up profit for the self financing institutions and at the same time government has a heavy spending burden.

In examining the need for Nigerian economy to encourage the domestic manufacturing sector, this study looks at the effect of imported manufactured goods on the performance of manufacturing sector in Nigeria. The study employed econometric analysis with Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method of data estimation and analysis and Augmented Dickey fuller test to conduct unit root test to ensure the stationarity states of the variables used. The estimated result of model one shows a positive statistically significant relationship between domestic manufacturing sector output and the Nigeria manufactured imports. Model two estimates also indicate that domestic manufacturing sector contributes positively to economic growth of Nigeria. Therefore, the study recommended among other things the use of fiscal policy measures to checkmate or control high importations of goods that can be manufactured domestically to enable domestic manufacturers expand and thus, create employment opportunities for Nigerians.

Quality of Care and patient satisfaction are major challenges faced by the healthcare sector in Jordan. This paper aims to comparative study of the factors affecting service quality on the Patient Satisfaction from patient‟s perspectives in Jordan. Cross Sectional Survey. The study sample consisted of (200) respondents divided between King Hussein Medical Centre Hospital and Al-Bashir Hospital. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS package. The study results revealed that quality of care has an impact on patient satisfaction. Moreover the results indicated that patients are satisfied with quality of care in the two hospitals. The study recommended that the two hospitals have to set up criteria for their quality provided for patients, and they are requested to provide sufficient number of qualifies medical staff to deal with the increased number of patients.

The study aimed at assessing the drivers of growth of women-owned micro enterprises in Meru Municipality, Kenya. The study employed descriptive research design. Self administered questionnaires were used to collect data from the respondents. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. Analyzed data was presented in the form of frequency tables, pie charts, bar graphs and percentages. The study concluded that, there is need for women entrepreneurs to participate in entrepreneurship trainings and beneficial associations. The study recommended that: Private sectors and NGOs in collaboration with the government should be encouraged to come up with programs of inculcating women entrepreneurship culture through business conferences, exhibitions, foreign tours. Such forums will act as learning centres for women entrepreneurs.