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Addressing the Natural Resource Curse
Author: Mr.Arvind Subramanian
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2003-07-01
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13: 1451856067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Some natural resources-oil and minerals in particular-exert a negative and nonlinear impact on growth via their deleterious impact on institutional quality. We show this result to be very robust. The Nigerian experience provides telling confirmation of this aspect of natural resources. Waste and poor institutional quality stemming from oil appear to have been primarily responsible for Nigeria's poor long-run economic performance. We propose a solution for addressing this resource curse which involves directly distributing the oil revenues to the public. Even with all the difficulties that will no doubt plague its actual implementation, our proposal will, at the least, be vastly superior to the status quo. At best, however, it could fundamentally improve the quality of public institutions and, as a result, durably raise long-run growth performance.
The Role of Petroleum and Mineral Resources in the Trade and Development of Nigeria
The Nigerian Rice Economy
Author: Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-08-10
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0812293754
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Nigerian Rice Economy the authors assess three options for reducing this dependency - tariffs and other trade policies; increasing domestic rice production; and improving post-harvest rice processing and marketing - and identify improved production and post-harvest activities as the most promising. These options however, will require substantially increased public investments in a variety of areas, including research and development, basic infrastructure (for example, irrigation, feeder roads, and electricity), and rice milling technologies.
Foreign Trade Barriers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Intersection of China's Commercial Interests and Nigeria's Conflict Landscape
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics
Author: A. Carl LeVan
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 833
ISBN-13: 019880430X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume is an authoritative and agenda-setting examination of Nigerian politics.
Enclaves of Exception
Author: Omolade Adunbi
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0253059569
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and environmental effects of an oil-based economy? Focusing on the special economic zones resulting from China's trading partnership with Nigeria, Enclaves of Exception offers a new approach to exploring the relationship between oil and technologies of extraction and their interrelatedness to local livelihoods and environmental practices. In this groundbreaking work, Omolade Adunbi argues that even though the exploitation of oil resources is dominated by big corporations, it establishes opportunities for many former Nigerian insurgents and their local communities to contest the ownership of such resources in the oil-rich Niger Delta and to extract oil themselves and sell it. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Enclaves of Exception makes clear that, although both the free trade zones and the now booming local artisanal refineries share the goals of profit-making and are enthusiastically supported by those benefiting from them economically, they have yielded dramatically the same environmental outcome for communities around them that included pollution with precarious effects on the health of the populations in the regions, and displacement of population from their livelihood practices.
Economic Diversification in Nigeria
Author: Zainab Usman
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2023-12-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1786993953
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nigeria has for long been regarded as the poster child for the 'curse' of oil wealth. Yet despite this, Nigeria achieved strong economic growth for over a decade in the 21st century, driven largely by policy reforms in non-oil sectors. This open access book argues that Nigeria's major development challenge is not the 'oil curse', but rather one of achieving economic diversification beyond oil, subsistence agriculture, informal activities, and across its subnational entities. Through analysis drawing on economic data, policy documents, and interviews, Usman argues that Nigeria's challenge of economic diversification is situated within the political setting of an unstable distribution of power among individual, group, and institutional actors. Since the turn of the century, policymaking by successive Nigerian governments has, despite superficial partisan differences, been oriented towards short-term crisis management of macroeconomic stabilization, restoring growth and selective public sector reforms. To diversify Nigeria's economy, this book argues that successive governments must reorient towards a consistent focus on pro-productivity and pro-poor policies, alongside comprehensive civil service and security sector overhaul. These policy priorities, Nigeria's ruling elites are belatedly acknowledging, are crucial to achieving economic transformation; a policy shift that requires a confrontation with the roots of perpetual political crisis, and an attempt to stabilize the balance of power towards equity and inclusion. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Nigeria's Criminal Crude
Author: Christina Katsouris
Publisher: Chatham House (Formerly Riia)
Published: 2015-07-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781862032958
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nigerian crude oil is being stolen on an industrial scale. Some proceeds are laundered through world financial centers, polluting markets and financial institutions overseas. This report explores what the international community could do about it.
