Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Divergence, Convergence, and the French Path to Industrial Development after 1750 -- 2 A Brave New World of Work: The Reform of the Corporations and the Lettres-Patentes of May 1779 -- 3 Foreign Policy as Industrial Policy: The Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1786...

The structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. The primary sector, in particular, the oil and gas sector, dominates the gross domestic product accounting for over 95 per cent of export earnings and about 85 per cent of government revenue between 2011 and 2012. The...