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Diaspora remittances, renewable energy and enterprise growth in Nigeria
Ojapinwa, Victor T.; Lawani, Dami - In: The Romanian economic journal : REJ 25 (2022) 83, pp. 57-73
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414843
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Cooperation behaviour and innovation performance in the Nigerian manufacturing industry
Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - 2012
new. What is new is studying how this relationship fares in latecomer economic contexts such as Nigeria, and that is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291813
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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Kohnert, Dirk - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293531
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Could a well-designed customs reforms remove the trade-off between revenue collection and trade facilitation?
Raballand, Gael; Marteau, Jean-François; Mjekiqi, Edmond; … - 2009
This paper is based on first-hand experience from Customs reforms in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and presents unpublished data on the impact of Customs reforms on revenues, trade facilitation, private sector operators and frontline Customs officials' behaviors in Africa. Customs agencies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301475
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Does seasonal vulnerability to poverty matter? A case study from the Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands in Nigeria
Chiwaula, Levison; Waibel, Hermann - 2011
the Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands in Nigeria involving 260. We find that both observed poverty and vulnerability to poverty vary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305586
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Digital financial services in Africa: Beyond the Kenyan success story
2014
sieben weiteren Ländern erläutert, die ebenfalls Gegenstand der Studie waren: Benin, Kamerun, Mosambik, Nigeria, Sambia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307240
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"A Flop or a Success?" An Evaluation of the Welfare Impacts of the 6-3-3-4 Education System in Nigeria
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2015
The need for graduates who would be productive citizens able to contribute significantly to the Nigerian economy led to the overhaul of the old education system 6-5-4 and the implementation of the 6-3-3-4 system, with its first set of graduates from secondary schools in 1988. The main objective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307351
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What do we know about pro-poor growth and regional poverty in Nigeria?
Ichoku, Hyacinth Eme; Agu, Chukwuma; Ataguba, John Ele-Ojo - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 5 (2012) 3, pp. 147-172
This study investigates the pro-poorness of income growth in Nigeria. Using nationally representative data for 1996 and … 2004, overall income growth in Nigeria was found not to be pro-poor. The richer segments of the population appropriate … need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310239
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The Impact of Exchange Rate Changes on Disaggregated Agricultural Output in Nigeria: A Two-Stage-Least-Squares Approach
Yaqub, Jameelah Omolara - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 75-89
Agriculture was the mainstay of the Nigerian economy prior to independence and immediately after. Agriculture however, has suffered persistent decline since the 1970s with the exchange rate policy being implicated in the misfortune of this sector. Earlier studies on the effect of exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310241
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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 14 (1979) 3, pp. 295-315
why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the problem of rural social structures recently. Up to now it was considered … and rural social spaces in Northern Nigeria. Applied to the results an empirical investigation of four Nupe villages in … Northern Nigeria in 1976, the proposed model reveals the early stages of a rural capitalist development, notably among rice …
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