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The purpose of this paper is to provide an alternative way for abandoned projects in Nigeria through Sukuk. Sukuk have been attracting the attention of investors and become most popular in many global markets. Further, Sukuk have been used for funding many infrastructure developments as an alternative for conventional bonds. The study adopts a descriptive approach to highlight the significance of Sukuk as an investment tool to improve the infrastructural development and economic growth via abandoned projects in Nigeria because this experience is still at the infancy stage in the country. This study attempts to give the financial solution by depending on internal foreign loans which comprise the interest rate. The outcome indicates that Sukuk is the better alternative and reliable in financing abandoned projects and the new one for the development of the country. Also, study shows that Sukuk is the most significant financial instrument in the market because it has no interest rate. Many Muslim countries and non-Muslim countries have applied Sukuk for their infrastructure development and economic growth. The study will be a primary reference for different governments at the state and federal level who intend to adopt similar instruments for abandoned projects in their respective nations. As an individual is qualified to purchase Sukuk, this might lead to a better wealth distribution amongst people. The study has implication for the policymaker and government in terms of fully adopting Sukuk to address the issues of abandoned projects, thereby enhancing the social wellbeing of the people and the development of the economy. The study is among the studies that thoroughly and critically appraise Sukuk as an alternative for the government to tackle issues of abandoned projects in the country. It contributes to the literature in the field of Islamic finance according to the philosophy of profit and loss sharing among investors to solve different challenges in society.

This study tried to assess the extent to which participatory communication can enhance community development in Urugbam community. The study adopted John Greene's Action Assembly Theory developed in 1984. Action Assembly Theory attempts to explain how people formulate meanings and produce verbal and nonverbal behaviours that bear some relationship to those meanings by describing how the mind carries out these activities. The researcher applied descriptive research methodology through the use of focus group discussion. The total population of the Urugbam community including men and women is 3010, but a purposive sampling technique was applied to select 7 participants that form the focus group discussion from five compounds with a total of thirty-five (35) participants. A qualitative method of data analysis was applied to descriptively present data in words. Findings indicate that government initiated borehole water project in Urugbam community has been abandoned because the project was reportedly initiated without the involvement of the community members or stakeholders. The research recommendas that government and educational boards should endeavour to involve community stakeholders in an interaction before implementing projects so that such projects can be sustainable and be useful to the entire community members. This research also recommends that the case of community development should be addressed thoroughly by individuals, governmental and non-governmental organizations through any means necessary especially through interaction with stakeholders.

Purpose
Innovation projects are often risky and costly. But not all innovation projects lead to commercialisation; some are abandoned, and these abandoned innovation projects can be classified as a waste of resources. Therefore, this paper studies the influence of different external sources and a firm's decision to abandon an innovation project. The purpose of this paper is to provide a broader understanding of abandoned projects.


Design/methodology/approach
The data applied are quantitative data and the empirical background is the Danish Innovation Survey 2009. The sample consists of Danish manufacturing firms with ten employees or more (n=840). The results are based on logistic regression analysis.


Findings
Results reveal that firms should consider that the involvement of customers can lead them to abandon innovation projects. However, if firms combine customers with universities, it will decrease the likelihood of innovation projects being abandoned. A more in-depth analysis shows that the involvement of customers from "Europe" (countries in Europe excluding Denmark) and the "US" leads to innovation projects being abandoned while customers from "other countries" (the rest of the world, including China and India) have the opposite effect.


Originality/value
The contribution is to the limited literature on abandoned innovation projects by suggesting that the type of external sources is a significant factor in firms' decisions to abandon innovation projects. The paper identifies that the involvement of certain external sources leads firms to decide to abandon innovation projects, and that the country of origin of the external sources is an important criterion to consider in relation to a firm's decision to abandon innovation projects.

This article assesses the causative characteristics of abandoned completed urban market projects in the Bono Region, Ghana and their associated effect. The study used the mixed methodology research approach. Eight abandoned completed urban market projects were visited within the region. A total of 16 consultant and contractor teams were selected using the purposive sampling technique while 32 questionnaires were administered and received from would-be users, consultants and contractors of the eight selected projects. Bad location, non-provision of auxiliary facilities, high rent charges, a long distance from the communities, small size of sheds and stalls and non-user consultation were the highest causative characteristics. The effects of abandoned markets were resource wastage, unemployment and a decrease in revenue accruable to the state. Markets are a source of product delivery that promotes sustainable economic development, jobs and communication, and enhances the identity of the communities. Wastage of resources occurs if an urban market project is abandoned. Improvement of would-be user satisfaction is imperative to reduce non-usage leading to the abandonment of the market project. Therefore, auxiliary utilities such as electricity, water, sanitation and access roads must be included in the project during the planning phases. The article affirms the relevance of user satisfaction with urban market projects to avoid the wastage of public resources.

During Hurricane Katrina, which struck the US Gulf Coast in August 2005, thousands of men, women and children were abandoned in Orleans Parish Prison (OPP), the New Orleans jail. As the floodwaters rose in the OPP buildings, prisoners were trapped for days in locked cells without food, some standing in sewage-tainted water up to their chests, while guards left their posts. Predominantly poor African-American pre-trial detainees, held on minor charges, such as failure to pay court fees, the prisoners were eventually evacuated to various receiving facilities around the state of Louisiana, only to face systematic racial abuse, assaults and further brutality. The experiences of the OPP prisoners lay bare the routine injustices that permeate a system of incarceration that is effectively run as a profitmaking concern.

The Coronavirus pandemic and its resultant effects on public health facilities have ignited the 'Abandoned Projects War'. Apparently, many infrastructural projects across all sectors of the economy (ie. health, education, transportation, trade, etc) have been left uncompleted by successive governments for reasons best known to them. In many African countries and for that matter Ghana, desire for development projects such as schools, hospitals and clinics, affordable housing, markets, bus terminal, road construction, drainage systems are very popular among politicians for vote before every election. Voters' desire for evidence based projects before every election motivates politicians to make enormous campaign promises. Hitherto, lots of countries in Africa are littered with abandoned projects that are in mid construction which are critical for the social economic progress of the country. In Ghana, it is estimated that one-third of developmental projects started are never completed, consuming nearly one-fifth of all local government investment. This research proposes that projects abandoned in Ghana can be attributed to the political system of governance where election is a zero-sum game. This research finds scientific evidence in consistent with the assumption of the problem, an actions that has become a political culture in Ghana. To improved government project completions in Ghana will be to reinforce a National development agenda that goes beyond political lines, and a complete overhaul of the political system of governance. It is time for our leaders to do what is right and not what pleases voters.

AbstractFollowing Stalin's interpretations of the Lenin's thesis on the merging of the nations, the Yugoslav communists first needed to "push" all nations to the same level of development. After the Tito-Stalin split in 1948, the soft Yugoslav nation-building project was accelerated. During the 1950s, national Yugoslavism was stimulated in a latent way through language, culture, censuses, and changes in the constitutional and socialist system. By the end of the 1950s, the Yugoslav socialist national idea reached its peak with the 1958 Party Congress. Nevertheless, with the economic crisis in the early 1960s, and the famous Ćosić-Pirjevec debate on Yugoslavism, the Yugoslav national idea declined. This was evident on the level of the personal, national identifications of the Party members, but also in the ideological shift of the Party's chief ideologue Edvard Kardelj. Yet, the concept of Yugoslavism was redefined in the second half of the 1960s without ethnic or national connotations. Two Yugoslavisms were created: a socialist one propagated by the Party and a national one that lived among the population in small proportions. Although the Yugoslavs were never recognized as a nation, that did not stop them from publicly advocating for their national rights.