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Political Economy of Development
Author: Tayo Oke
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781531026509
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This compilation of essays covers a variety of subjects: economics, politics, law, finance, education, media, military, and international relations, focusing on public policy in the emerging economy of Nigeria. Put together in one neat volume, the essays are at once original as they are full in depth and breadth. The methodological approach to this collection was based on a careful dissection of crucial aspects of public policy in their raw elements and placed in the context of their conceptual and empirical groundings. The book marries theory and practice to critique policy choices and proffer alternative options to fill the gaps where necessary. The eclectic mix of theories deployed for analysis stands out from the conventional approach seen in standard textbooks. No book on the market will have engaged with the effect of monetarism and supply-side economics versus public ownership and dependency logic; theories of democracy and pluralism versus militarism and dictatorship; distributive justice versus social justice; and "free and fair" election as a concept against "substantial compliance" with legal requirements at the end results. The intersection between theoretical assumptions and public policy is the mechanic's workshop for this book. The essays have been written to appeal to a wide audience across different socio-economic strata, but also carefully manicured by data to raise their essence beyond a passing interest in the subject matter, to one the reader will generally find arresting, and certainly illuminating. Rather than producing a single-subject standard text in a typically isolated fashion, the approach to this volume is deliberately multidisciplinary as it is multifaceted. This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin.
Essays in the Public Philosophy of Development: Studies in the political economy of Africa
Author: Pius Nwabufo C. Okigbo
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essays on Nigerian Economy
Power of Youth
Author: John I. Abhuere
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9789789162123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dictators and Democracy in African Development
Author: A. Carl LeVan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1107081149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.
Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Political Economy and Management
Author: Patrick Okedinachi Utomi
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These essays are taken from the many symposiums diagnosing Nigeria's prolonged stagnation. The book is designed as a companion to the author's previous book Managing Uncertainty: Competition and Strategy in Emerging Economies which won the Boshorun M.K.O. Abiola prize as the best academic book published in Nigeria in 1998. The five parts of the book are Strategy and the Nigerian Environment; The Environment of Banking and Finance; Political Economy Issues and the Macro-economy; Challenge to Business; Budget Reviews and Policy Advocacy; Values and Management Effectiveness; and Case Studies.
Towards a Political Economy of Nigeria
Author: Julius Omozuanvbo Ihonvbere
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nigeria Is Negotiable
Author: Chido Onumah
Publisher: African Centre for Media & Information Literacy
Published: 2013-07-15
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9789789324767
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nation building is not a project for the faint-hearted or for those with a short memory. It needs statesmen and women, thinkers and active citizens. And it takes very little for granted. In this book, essayist, activist, and organizer, Chido Onumah, explains all this using as his raw material Nigeria's contemporary political economy and history. In law as in politics, countries are defined by a population within bounded territories under a common sovereign. Boundaries, howsoever defined, are, however, not facts of nature; they are artificial. They can be formed, re-formed, un-formed, negotiated and re-negotiated. In this collection, Chido Onumah makes a case for not taking Nigeria or its citizens for granted. It is at once a passionate cry for a better country; a compelling argument for rational debate about the future of the country; and an articulate appeal for committed citizenship. In this book, Chido Onumah shows what is possible when national issues are tackled with rigour and intellectual honesty. Somewhat more than the arguments that it seeks to put forward, therefore, this book is also a record of Nigeria's contemporary history in the last quarter century, from the perspective of a Nigerian whose growing up happened during the period. Fittingly, it is published on the cusp of the Nigerian centenary. This book does not set out to win a popularity contest. Its passion is relentless; its prose is committed and its logic takes few prisoners. Most who read it will find something in it to disagree with and also much in it to agree with. But such is the enterprise of nation building. If this book reminds us of the unfinished tasks of nation building at the exclamation point of Nigeria's Centenary, then the author has served a brilliant purpose. - (Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, Ph.D., Chair of the Governing Council, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in Nigeria).
Democradura
Author: Nahzeem Oluwafemi Mimiko
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781611632705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Democradura: Essays On Nigeria's Limited Democracy is a collection of articles penned by Professor Femi Mimiko, mni, over a 30-year period. The broad theme is Nigeria's tortuous attempts at building democracy and laying the basis for nation-building and inclusive development, undertaken over the past 57 years of the country's relative political independence. Taken together, the 164 essays in the book traverse diverse issue-areas, from education, through contestation for power by a notoriously fractious ruling elite, to Nigeria's tentative engagement with the global system. While the narrative is largely conducted within the theoretical rubric of political economy, this is done in an easy-to-comprehend manner, which makes Democradura a compelling addition to the rich corpus of literature on the Nigeria project.
