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new. What is new is studying how this relationship fares in latecomer economic contexts such as Nigeria, and that is the …
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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...
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This paper is based on first-hand experience from Customs reforms in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and presents unpublished data on the impact of Customs reforms on revenues, trade facilitation, private sector operators and frontline Customs officials' behaviors in Africa.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...
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the Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands in Nigeria involving 260. We find that both observed poverty and vulnerability to poverty vary …
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sieben weiteren Ländern erläutert, die ebenfalls Gegenstand der Studie waren: Benin, Kamerun, Mosambik, Nigeria, Sambia …
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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...
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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 …
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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...
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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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growth and independence during the past two decades in Northern Nigeria, compared with other parts of Nigeria. …Les entrepreneurs et les seigneurs de terre du Nigeria du nord dans leurs lutte pour le pouvoir politique: Sur l … élevé de protection à la fois contre le capital commerçant du Nigeria du Sud plus performant et des puissantes compagnies …
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