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Project Implemented by the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World. Recent literature on development 'questions' the efficacy of past and present income generating projects with respect to women. The main argument centers around the definition of the term «Income generating activities» which usually «connotes small activities irrelevant to the stream of national economic development» (ISIS, 1983; p. 95).

The ideations of the development perspective on income-generating activities by women encompass several views: traditionalist (home crafts have always provided supplemental income), integrationist (working puts women into the developmental mainstream), rationalist (working trains skilled women), & structuralist (working along nonsexual divisions of labor gives women more opportunity). However, some view women's income generation as exploitative & retrogressive. From both perspectives, women's labor force participation involves dilemmas on both micro- & macroeconomic levels that have yet to be resolved. 21 References. M. Pflum

Ergebnisse dreier Felduntersuchungen zur Projektevaluierung im Bereich der ländlichen Industrialisierung im "Southern District

The proposed study was to explore the relationship between income generating Activities and financial performance of public universities in Kenya. Higher education in Kenya has been recognized as a critical tool in transforming the society. The Government spends a lot of funds on education in relation to the national budget. However, despite the continued increase in government investment in higher education; resources are never adequate to match the everincreasing enrolment rates. In connection to this, several public Universities have mobilized their scarce resources to establish IGAs in order to supplement the government expenditure on education. Specific objective of this study was to examine the contribution of academic based IGAs, roles of service Based IGAs, and how production based IGAs influence the financial performance of public Universities in Kenya. A broad study was done with regards to the various theories that explain the relationship that really exist between income generating activities and their financial performance, where the resource dependency theory is seen as a conceptual tool where it argues that no organization is completely self-contained, agency theory on the other hand was also considered as an important tool since it shows, the relationship that exist between two parties, where one party is been referred as principal and the other one agent. It was observed that, most of the IGAs conducted in public Universities in Kenya include Academic Based IGAs: well known of these programs are module II programs, service Based IGAs dealing with services like restaurants, cyber cafes, production Based IGAs was also put in place in this study, also as source of income to the Universities. A descriptive approach in this project was used to explain the relationship between the variables of the study as shown in the conceptual framework, where questionnaires were used to analyze whether their existed a relationship between IGAs and Financial performance in Public Universities.

This study is aimed at assessing the impact of Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) on the economic development of Ijesaland in Southwestern Ni­geria with the view to recommending a sustainable economic development policy framework for the region. Ijesaland is made up of 6 Local Government Adminis­trative Areas (LGAAs). Its 487 settlements were stratified into four Business Ac­tivity-Groups (BAGs) and the economic activities across the groups were grouped into 198 Functional Order-Centres (FOCs) according to their level of functionality. A total of 65,146 households were identified. Primary data were sourced through questionnaire administration, while secondary data were gathered from relevant published and unpublished documents as well as Focus Group Discussions, phys­ical observations, and interactions across the study area. Using stratified sam­pling technique, a household questionnaire was administered on 2% (1,303) of the household heads, while an institutional questionnaire was administered on 100 economic activity centers across stratified 20 settlements. Data collected were processed using SPSS. The study affirms RIGA as a significant strengthener of the economic development in the study area. Therefore, a RIGA boosting pol­icy-framework across the study area is recommended to make the economic de­velopment in the region more sustainable. The policy could be a template for in the homogeneous Southwestern Nigeria to ensure sustainable economy in the zone; and by extension, Nigeria with situation-relevant adjustment.