Social Sciences and Humanities

Brand Loyalty is regarded as a very important concept in business because business organizations can use it to gain competitive advantage. Competitive advantage has been approached by looking at the external environment of the firm that is how the economic power of firms can be used to create competitive position in an industry. This study focuses on Resource Based View a model that provides a framework for identifying unique set of resources and this perspective shifts the approach of assessing competitive advantage from the external to the internal environment that is the resource power.

The level of indebtedness of government servants continues to increase each year. One possible reason is due to the low level of financial literacy. The purpose of this paper is to investigate possible solutions to increase the level of the financial literacy among government servants, from the perspective of financial education providers. This study applies a qualitative method via a focus group through the invitation of several financial education providers from a number of organizations.

The elemental philosophy of the article is not concerning the discourse of the modernists, and traditionalists around the evolution of M&E, however is to see effectiveness and ineffectiveness of the implementation of monitoring systems within the public sector. It conjointly provides a basis for creating public officials accountable to their administrative superiors, political representatives and also the public in generally.

In Lesotho, the alpine wetlands and sponges are the sources of drinking water for humans and livestock and environmentally critical for sustainable perennial flow of our streams. However, these environments are some of the most threatened ecosystems in Lesotho. Both ground and surface water are exposed to increasing and unprecedented threats from anthropogenic stressors that degrade water quality, reduce water quantity and availability.

This study investigated voter’s perception of the role of e-voting in ensuring credible elections in Nigeria. The study is delimited to registered voters in Calabar metropolis. The research design adopted for this study was the survey design. The researcher adopted the purposive sampling technique in selecting sample from the population of study. A sample size of two hundred and fifty respondents were selected for study. The researcher utilized the questionnaire in gathering quantitative data for the study.

Torture, as a process. is a serious violation of fundamental human rights, especially in cases where torture is committed by civil servants, such as police and other segments of state institutions. The act of torture can be considered as a serious threat to the social and democratic principles of a society. The perpetration of torture by civil servants and institutions suggests that there is a serious omission in the democracy of a given system.

The combat against land degradation in Lesotho has been in existence since the arrival of the missionaries but failed due to lack of scientific evidence on the cause, extent and severity of the degraded watersheds to help plan sustainable management strategies to mitigate land degradation. Field investigation was conducted using LADA Soil Assessment Methodologies to assess the physical properties of the Bolahla- Mphosong catchment to provide a first-hand scientific data on the state and causes of land degradation for decision support making at the different levels of economic planning.

Migration is a very old phenomenon, which means that the person is born, the people he lives with, the people he leaves. There are many compulsory or optional reasons for addressing the person. Migration has both positive and negative consequences for both the abandoned place and the migrated and settled region. The general type of migration is the direction of migration from rural to urban; when abroad, it is towards the rich countries of the poor countries. Even this type of development shows that there are many socio-economic factors on the basis of people's migration.

This study aimed to describe the lived experience of the senior high school student-researchers of the Academic track and the Technical Vocational and Livelihood track in accomplishing their research work in terms of (1) selecting their research topic (2) collecting and organizing related studies (3) preparing the research proposal (4) conducting the research and (5) writing the research paper. This paper also ought to investigate the impact of research to the senior high school students despite the difficulties encountered in the aforementioned stages.

Solving of disputes through negotiations, in the past and so in present has a key place in international law and international relations. Main purpose of this paper is to explain negotiations as a mechanism of peaceful dispute resolution and providing a brief summary of the similarities and differences in respect to the arbitrage.