Social Sciences and Humanities

The purpose of this project was to identify the factors constraining agribusiness growth in the Maseru district. Primary data from 10 owners/managers of agribusiness enterprises were selected for the study, and were analysed using descriptive analysis and empirical probit models. The results indicate that majority of the respondents were females (60%), aged between 40-49 years (50%), majority of the forms of agribusiness enterprises were sole-trade enterprises. The results also showed that majority (70%) had secondary education.

This study was designed to identify technical constraints to marketing of eggs in Mohale’s Hoek district of Lesotho. The primary data used were obtained through the use of semi-structured interview schedule from 30 egg producers in the study area. A range of technical factors in marketing were incorporated in a binary choice model to investigate the egg marketing with their previous year’s farming results.

The present study prominences on the customer satisfaction in service quality aspects among public sectors banks and private sectors banks in coimbatore city. The major objectives of this study are to identity the expectations (E) of consumers concerning banking facility, to discover perception (P) of consumers concerning service excellence of banks and to associate service excellenceslits (P-E) in public sectors banks and private sectors banks in Coimbatore city. Empirical method adopted with the basic arrangements of SERVQUAL instruments to measure the service Quality of banks.

Background: The experience of work stress can cause unusual and dysfunctional behaviour at work and contribute to poor physical and mental health. No job is immune from stress, but for the law enforcement officer, the strains and tensions experienced at work are unique, often extreme, and sometimes unavoidable. The study was intended to explore the workplace stressors responsible for stress among police officers working in Karachi which is a Cosmopolitan City of Pakistan.

Background: Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world, fourth in Asia & 2nd Muslim nation. Pakistan's population is growing by around two per cent a year but the economy has failed to keep pace with the population growth. Even though family planning programme was started in 1951 but rates of contraceptive use are low particularly in rural Pakistan, which is home to two-thirds of the about 180 million people in the nation. There is a wide range of contraceptives including traditional and modern methods.

Insurance is playing a major role in every individual and business life. Insurance is the one which gives the security for the existing status and protects from the uncertainty of expected outcome. The entire world becomes a small village due to the Globalization and Liberalization which made tremendous changes in the General insurance in India. There are many companies are entering into the Indian insurance industry and there by increased the competition.

The study investigated the "effect of instructional materials on senior secondary students' achievement in Economics. The study adopted the quasi-experimental design in the sense that the subjects were not randomly assigned into groups. The simple random sampling technique was used to obtain the sampled schools. Sixty (60) students consisting of 30 assigned to experimental group and 30 were assigned to the control group. Intact classes of SS II economics students from schools in Pankshin local government area of Plateau state.

After the advent of the Supply Chain Management concept and the transversality of the approach, the research has often shown the superposition of the Supply Chain with the value chain of the company. In fact, the global Supply Chain contributes, through its different functions, to create the company’s value in its operating cycle.Logistics pooling, meanwhile, represents an emerging cooperative logistics strategy to streamline access to resources and maximize their profitability.

This study examines how the theory and application of Business Entity and Objectivity Concepts influence the performance of a firm. It highlights on how these fundamental concepts, under Accounting Concepts, influence the activities and the performance of an organisation. To achieve the objective of this study, comprehensive literature and industrial observations are used. The study finds direct relationship between proper application of business entity and objectivity concepts and the performance of an organisation.

The study is about impact of Jammu Kashmir State Rural Livelihoods Mission (JKRLM) on rural women of Block Dansal, District Jammu in terms of their socio-economic empowerment. The study covers objectives, structure, and implementation process in block. An effort has been made to highlight how SHG approach has brought major changes in the lives of poor women via organizing them with sensitive support and pave way to the multidimensional empowerment