The paper examines the trend and determinant factors of dividendrnpayment of the private banks in Ethiopia, where there is no stock market.rnThe study uses data of the six banks for the period from 1999/00 torn2007/08. The study examines the interrelationship between dividend of thernbanks and some...
The study is set out to assess the prospect of current challenges of private real estate development in alleviating the housing demand in Addis Ababa. Hence, it stands to identify the major challenges that the industry is facing and tries to recommend the remedial actions to be taken. Extensive...
This study attempted to explore effects of circuit training program on selected physical fitnessrnvariables of female students. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 24 novice femalernstudents on intervention and comparison group aged15 to 16 years from grade 9 students. Thernmain...
Identifying and managing solid waste dumping sites in an environmentally acceptable manner is one of the major issues facing municipal planners. Land filling is now becoming a common method of waste disposal in Ethiopia even though solid waste dumping is a serious problem in the urban areas because...
Due to fragmented nature of construction, real time communication is rarely possible requiring more efficiency and effectiveness in information exchange and decision making. Since an integral component of a construction process is accompanied by set of decisions, delay in response would lead to an...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the adsorption potential of aluminium amendedrnactivated bamboo charcoal (AAABC) for defluoridation of drinking water using batch adsorptionrnexperiments. The preparation of activated bamboo charcoal (ABC) was optimized using differentrnactivation...
Addis Ababa is the main get way into and out of the country; hence it receives many tourists.rnBesides this, the contribution of the tourism industry as a source of revenue in general andrnthe contribution of ecotourism both as a source of revenue and as a means of environmentalrnsustainability in...
The present study was carried out to investigate avian species composition, relativernabundance and distribution in Entoto Natural Park and escarpment. It wasrnconducted from July 2009 to March 2010 during wet and dry seasons. The studyrnarea was stratified based on vegetation. Four habitat types:...
This study generally deals with the practice of censorship and its ethical effects in therngovernment owned Ethiopian Television. It has been based on the hypothesis that directrncensorship imposed by the government authorities or politicians and self-censorshiprnwhich is the result of internalized...
An atmosphere is a gaseous envelope around a planet where a wide variety of physical,rnchemical and dynamical processes takes place. As a result atmospheric researchersrncan not do controlled experiment in the large scale atmosphere rather they look at anrnalternative method so called atmospheric...
The development and provision of equitable and acceptable standard of health service tornall segments of population of Ethiopia has been a major objective of the 1993 nationalrnhealth policy. The health sector strategy adopted to implement the policy and focuses onrngiving comprehensive and...
Budgeting is about making plans for the future, implementing those plans and monitoringrnactivities to see whether they conform to the plan. The purpose of this study is to evaluate therneffect of budgeting and budget monitoring practice in NGOs operating in Ethiopia. The studyrnfocused on budget...
The purpose of the study was to assess whether the courses of Agricultural Technical VocationalrnEducation and Training (ATVET) colleges included environmental issues such as landrndegradation, deforestation and depletion of biodiversity. In order to assess the courses, data wererngathered through...
Construction industry is a major player in economy of any countries by generating employmentrnand wealth to the nations through its forward and backward linkages with other sectors. Howeverrnmany projects in developing countries experienced extremely high cost overrun, time slippage andrnlow...
Flooding in any circumstance causes major stresses on the economic, social andrnenvironmental regimes of the affected area. The flooding of 5/6 August 2006, however,rndemonstrated that structural measures undertaken so far are not adequate to withstandrnflood threats resulting in over 300...
This paper attempts to explore the ways of linking indigenous with ‘conventional’ measuresrnfor achieving sustainable land management in the highlands of Ethiopia in general and thernnorthwestern highlands in particular. A representative highland watershed, the DigilrnWatershed of East...
This study aims to investigate the level of journalists’ job satisfaction working in both state and private FM radio stations. FM Addis 97.1 and Fana FM 98.1 were taken as samples from state and Private FM stations respectively.rnA total of 43 journalists participated in the survey. The...
In Ethiopia 85% of the population are directly supported by the agricultural economy. However, the productivity of that economy is being seriously eroded by unsustainable land management practices both in areas of food crops and in grazing lands.rnA field study was conducted in the Lume Woreda of...
Several tests have been developed to diagnose HIV/AIDS and detect the presence of anti-HIV-1rnantibodies. But, these tests were not able to distinguish recent from established infections whichrnare particularly useful in estimating the incidence of HIV-1. Recently, a simple enzymernimmunoassay was...
The major objectives of this study were to compare knowledge, attitude and practice aboutrnHIVIAIDS and voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) among Defense University CollegernStudents who identified their HIV negative status and those who do not.rnTile sample of the study consists of students who...