Political Economy of Nigeria
Author: Claude Ake
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 232
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Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-09-28
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 3030738752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the ways in which colonialism continues to define the political economy of Nigeria sixty years after gaining political independence from the British. It also establishes a link between colonialism and the continued agitation for restructuring the political arrangement of the country. The contributions offer various perspectives on how the forceful amalgamation of disparate units and diverse nationalities have undermined the realization of the development potential of Nigeria. The book is divided into two parts. The first part interrogates the political economy of colonialism and the implications of this on economic development in contemporary Nigeria. The second part examines nation-building, governance, and development in a postcolonial state. The failure of the postcolonial political elites to ensure inclusive governance has continued to foster centrifugal and centripetal forces that question the legitimacy of the state. The forces have deepened calls for secession, accentuated conflicts and predispose the country to possible disintegration. A new government approach is required that would ensure equal representation, access to power and equitable distribution of resources.
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.
Author: I. William Zartman
Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
Published: 1983-02-01
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780275918187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Julius Omozuanvbo Ihonvbere
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Lewis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2007-04-17
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0472069802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Indonesian and Nigerian politics paralleled each other to a remarkable degree before diverging suddenly when oil money came into play. This book suggests that the explanation for this divergence is found in each country's way of confronting policy reform and developing institutions for economic growth.
Author: Darlington Iwarimie-Jaja
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thomas J. Biersteker
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 140085850X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thomas Biersteker evaluates the sources of Third World economic nationalism and assesses the significance of the changes that have taken place between North and South since the early 1970s. Neo-classical and neo-Marxist approaches to international and comparative political economy are explored to develop methods and select criteria for the assessment of major change. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.