The idea of banks financing the private sector as an engine of economic growth has a longrnhistory. The long-held belief of positive relationship between credit financing and manufacturernsector growth has prompted to be a principal component of policy advice in many developingrncountries. However,...
Background: Job satisfaction is the affective orientation that an employee has towards theirrnwork. What makes a job satisfying or unsatisfying does not depend only on the nature of the job,rnbut also on the expectations that individuals have of what their job should provide.rnObjectives: The main...
Background:Hand hygiene is an important measure to prevent and control infectionrnparticularly in developing countries, the identification of several risk factors associated with poorrnhand hygiene compliance is extreme importance. Alcohol based hand rube (ABHR) is simplernmeasure to prevent the...
Student loans have become increasingly important in the financing of higher education in developingrncountries. The objectives of this study are; i) to analyze the performance of the student loan scheme in Kenya, ii) to find out the characteristics of the beneficiaries and iii) determine the extent...
An effort is made to identify and determine the effects of the economic and demographic factors that influence the rapid growth of the educational system in Ethiopia. In doing this, the paper reviews the theoretical and empirical arguments for the rapid investment on education in the world. The...
The paper analyses the effects of trade and exchange rate policies on one of Ethiopia’srnagricultural export item, hides and skins. The problem which motivated this study is therntheoretical debates and empirical contradictions given on the matter of effect ofrndevaluation/depreciation of...
Background: The level of satisfaction of patients about the health services can be considered anrnimportant tool of quality of services. Nursing care is a major component of the health servicesrnbecause it is one of the determinants of quality of health services. Patient’s satisfaction with...
Back ground: Trichoomonas vaginalis is a flagellated, single cell protozoan parasite. T.rnvaginalis carries the distinction of being the only truly sexually transmitted parasitic infection inrnhumans. It is highly adapted to the human urogenital tract and majority of infections arernasymptomatic....
North Wollo zone, one of the zones in Amhara Region, is ecologically degraded,rnclimatically unstable and food insecure area. Moreover, it an area where harmfulrntraditional practices are dominantly exercised. On top of that, it an area whererneducational disparity was the highest and enrolment...
Composting is environmentally sound way to convert environmental contaminants ofrnbiodegradable organic waste into resource based agricultural input material composts, usingrnmicrobial decomposition process. The study of effective microorganisms (EM) for compostingrnwas conducted in Addis Ababa...
Background: Food borne diseases such as salmonellosis, shigellosis and intestinalrnparasitosis remain a major public health problem across the globe. The problem is severe inrndeveloping countries due to difficulties in securing optimal hygienic food handlingrnpractices. Food handlers may be...
Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer and the second cause of cancer death after lungrncancer in women. The combination of its high incidence and relatively good prognosisrnmake breast cancer the most prevalent cancer in the world today. Worldwide, it is estimatedrnthat more than one million...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of parents' divorce onrnadolescents' psychological and social adjustments. To this end, psychologicalrnand social measures of adolescents were developed. Single-mother, s tepmother,rnand intact family types were identified from the responses of...
Background: Intestinal schistosomiasis is one of the most widespread parasitic infections inrntropical and subtropical countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, the recommended strategy to controlrnschistosomiasis is preventive chemotherapy. Though World Health Organization (WHO)rnrecommends praziquantel...
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that affect participation and academicrnpelformance of female students in secondwy school of Gambela region. Factors whichrnwere believed to affect the participation and academic pelformance of female studentsrnare in school and out school...
The aim of the study was to compare variations in size, density, and concentration of the floristicrncomposition, soil seed bank and soil nutrient concentration respectively between recently and previouslyrnburnt blocks within the lower and upper boundary of the Erica shrubland community, in the...
This study was to investigate the relations of Admission Criteria and Overall CurriculumrnSatisfaction on CGPA Academic Performance in college. The research was done in MekanernYesus Management and Leadership College (MY-MLC) on adult learners in the regular,rnextension and summer degree programs....
Epidemiological study on public health problem of Schistosoma mansoni and soil-transmittedrnhelminthes was carried out between October and November 2007, in 9 primary schools of Adwarntown to determine the prevalence, intensity and associated risk factors for S. mansoni and soil-rntransmitted...
The paper attempts to examine the determinants of income inequality, and the interrelationship between cultivation of cash crops and the existing income inequity in the rural Ethiopia from 1994-2000 applying the regression-based decomposition with Shapley value Decomposition of Shorrocks(1999)...
There are controversial research findings about parent-adolescent conflict especially about the particularrnsub-stage of adolescence and sex in which high parent-adolescent conflict occurs. Hence, this researchrnwas started to examine Parent-adolescent conflict as a function of adolescent...