This study examines the relationship between drought and millet yield in the dry land areas of Kano state. The input-output relationship of millet production and farmers coping strategy(s) adopted to cope with the vagary of drought were examine, and the profitability of millet in the study area. Both primary and secondary data were used. Primary data was collected using structured questionnaire administered to 240 randomly sampled millet farmers from purposeful sampled local government areas of kano state as; Ajingi,

The Armed Forces Special Powers Act continues to be used by the Indian government in insurgency ridden areas, gaining wide traction in the debate on conflict and its resolution. Civil society condemns the Act for issues relating to Human Rights, and the draconian powers it seemingly bestows on the armed forces. This research paper seeks to examine the debate in the larger context of its legality, its validity in the current scenario, and the artificial divide it creates in civil society discourse.

This study was conducted to examine, the discursive construction of political identity on Facebook and its democratization potential in Ethiopia. The study, has analyzed the Facebook pages of two major and competing political parties in Ethiopia namely the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), and Semayawi (Blue) party. The study specifically employed a Qualitative Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) among the multi-methodical approach in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) whose analysis revealed that the selected political parties, for the most part, used Facebook to construct positive self and negative other images in Ethiopian political sphere. Facebook has also been found to serve as a forum to create polarized collective identity and discourses typified by fragmentation, flaming and incivility in Ethiopia.

Investment is one of the most important macroeconomic variables for economic growth in any economy. High rate of investment is one of the factors responsible for the good economic performance. Due to importance of investment in economic growth, it is essential to understand the variables which determine investment in economy. This study attempts to find all possible variables which has significant role in determining investment in Indian Economy over the period 1979-80 to 2011-12. The result reveals that private investment as a % of GDP is mainly determined by public investment to GDP ratio, real exchange rate at trade based, credit availability as a % of GDP and trade openness.

Women owned businesses are highly increasing in the economies of almost all countries. The hidden entrepreneurial potentials of women have gradually been changing with time to the role and economic status in the society. Skill, knowledge and adaptability in business are the main reasons for women that have helped them in overcoming all the barriers and emerge themselves into business ventures. Finance is the one thing for which they opt for building their career as independent entrepreneurs. Financial Empowerment is a new approach to poverty reduction that focuses on improving the financial security of low-income people.

International Relations theory has benefitted greatly from growing interaction with political theory andphilosophy over the last twenty years1 . The works of Foucault, Derrida, Rorty, Lyotard, and Gramsci among others have become an accepted part of the international relations theoretical discourse. However, there has been a tenuous relationship between realism and political philosophy with the former dealing with hard material realities and the latter theorizing in abstraction. Even though there are common concerns addressed by realists and political philosophers, both reach different conclusions and seek distinct explanations and answers.

The emerging new technologies are creating strategic opportunities for the organizations to build competitive advantages in various functional areas of management including logistics and supply chain management. However the degree of success depends on the selection of the right technology for the application, availability of proper organizational infrastructure, culture and management policies. In logistics, information, communication and automation technologies has substantially increased speed of identification, data gathering, processing, analysis and transmission, with high level of accuracy and reliability

Librarians are no longer regarded as keepers of information but as teachers of information. The role of the librarian should be as an educator, information analyst, producer of repackaging of information, knowledge manager, consultant, adviser etc. Preparing information literacy program specifically modules in book form or lectures in PowerPoint is one of the reference services of the librarians. Information literacy has varied terms such as: user education, library instruction, bibliographic instruction, information skills and its development and competencies.

India has performed reasonably well since 1980 in terms of economic growth but still large proportions of the Informal workers are outside the realm of social security provisions. Indian Government has not provided any comprehensive social security provisions to the workers in an Informal sector. Only 6 % of working population has access to the social security benefits while 94 % have little or no access at all. The paper provides the overview of Social Security issues in India in general and Informal Sector in particular

Collins (2009:430), [1], defined knowledge as “the facts or experiences known by a person or a group of people” [1]. These were acquired, and in most cases benefitted the children, women, men, the community and the country at large. This therefore was the more reason for the study on the people’s knowledge levels on malaria and malaria control in Samfya District, Zambia. Random and non-random research designs were used to obtain the sample and data for the study. There were 394 respondents, 3 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and 11 key informants.

Collins (2009:430), [1], defined knowledge as “the facts or experiences known by a person or a group of people” [1]. These were acquired, and in most cases benefitted the children, women, men, the community and the country at large. This therefore was the more reason for the study on the people’s knowledge levels on malaria and malaria control in Samfya District, Zambia. Random and non-random research designs were used to obtain the sample and data for the study. There were 394 respondents, 3 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and 11 key informants.

The present article is about the importance of lifelong learning for professional development. Lifelong learning has its own identity in national and international societies. Basically, Lifelong Learning is all about acquiring abilities, skills, knowledge and understanding from the early childhood stage to the post retirement stage. Lifelong learning is very much related to the professional development. The paper deals with the following objectives.

Indian Textile Industry is one of the leading textile industries in the world. The economic liberalization of Indian economy in 1991 gave the much needed thrust to the Indian textile industry, which has now successfully become one of the second largest in the world. There are many states like West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kerala and Maharashtra which are textile hub of the Country. Among them Maharashtra is one of the giants in the textile manufacturing and also the one to owe highest industrial outputs in the textile sector.

Microsavings practices are as old as human history: informal savings opportunities such as ‘Susu’ and rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAS) have been in existence for time immemorial. Hence, savings pre-dates loans as even before the advent of the modern day medium of exchange people made provision for the ‘rainy days’ which today, helps in no quantifiable measure in addressing the problem of financial exclusion faced by economically active poor especially in underdeveloped and developing nations such as Nigeria. This paper therefore, employed the review of relevant literature to appraise the linkage between microsavings and microcredit as poverty fighting tools. The paper concludes that the two concepts complement each other and combining them will produce better effect on poverty reduction.