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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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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Unternehmer und Grundherren Nord-Nigerias im Kampf um die politische Macht: Zum sozialen Aufstieg der einheimischen Wirtschaftselite in den nigerianischen Emiraten

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 13 (1978) 3, pp. 269-286

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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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Journal of Peasant Studies 13 (1986) 4, pp. 258-271

Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better qualitative and quantitative idea of this interrelation. After an analysis …La transformation des systèmes du travail ruraux dans l’époque coloniale et post-coloniale dans le nord du Nigeria: L … rural dans le nord du Nigeria est destiné à fournir à la fois une meilleure idée qualitative et quantitative de cette …

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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 Chinese have a competitive edge over Africans because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chineseʹs supposed...

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