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Nigeria is going through a difficult political and economic transition after decades of independence.Yet, Nigeria remains a society rich in cultural, linguistic, religious, ethnic and political diversity. Today, the average Nigerian struggles hard to make ends meet; sees himself or herself as...
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NIGERIA IS GOING THROUGH A DIFFICULT POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSITION AFTER FORTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE. YET, NIGERIA REMAINS A SOCIETY RICH IN CULTURAL, LINGUISTIC, RELIGIOUS, ETHNIC AND POLITICAL DIVERSITY. TODAY, THE AVERAGE NIGERIAN STRUGGLES HARD TO MAKE ENDS MEET; SEES HIMSELF OR HERSELF...
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Data on energy and mineral reserves suggest that natural resource abundance has not been a significant structural determinant of economic growth between 1970 and 1989. The story behind the effect of natural resources on economic growth is a complex one that typical growth regressions do not...
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On 24 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the implementation of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) by Commonwealth departments and agencies to the Commission for inquiry and report within nine months of receipt of the reference.
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fashion and that the markets are relatively efficient. We do not find major changes in participation in these fisheries as a … result of the system. We find evidence that suggests that the ITQ system is improving the profitability of fisheries in New …
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„h States and Territories have agreed to apply competitive neutrality (CN) requirements to their commercial forestry …
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Using a sample of fisheries managed under the Magnuson Act, a probit model of the probability of property rights …
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The purpose of this paper is to model the interaction between the targets of the current CAP: environmental adaptation, subsidies and efficiency the of animal farming. To this end we first have to identify the production frontier and relative efficiency level for each animal oriented type of...
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evidence on sub-Saharan Africa it concludes that the resource curse theory fails to sufficiently explain why and how several …
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We investigate the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99. We test a `greed’ theory focusing … on the ability to finance rebellion, against a`grievance’ theory focusing on ethnic and religious divisions, political … repression and inequality. We find that greed considerably outperforms grievance. Consistent with the greed theory, both …
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