CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION This project focuses on the poverty profile in Nigeria‚ the foreign aids given to the nation to help alleviate poverty and how it affects the economic development of Nigeria. According to the World Bank website‚ “poverty is hunger. It is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. It is not being able to go to school‚ not knowing how to read‚ and not being able to speak properly. Poverty is not having a job‚ and is fear for the future‚ and
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Governor Central Bank of Nigeria GROWTH PROSPECTS FOR THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY Convocation Lecture delivered at the Igbinedion University Eighth Convocation Ceremony‚ Okada‚ Edo State‚ November 26‚ 2010 GROWTH PROSPECTS FOR THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY Sanusi Lamido Sanusi‚ CON Governor Central Bank of Nigeria 1.0 INTRODUCTION Nigeria’s economic aspirations have remained that of altering the structure of production and consumption patterns‚ diversifying the economic base and reducing dependence
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The Role of Capital Market on Economic Growth in Nigeria (19802008) Usman Owolabi Akeem‚ Phd Faculty of ManagementScience‚PMB4000‚ LAUTECH‚Ogbomoso‚Nigeria e-mail-labisky@yahoo.com‚ Tel:+2348036675099 Abstract The capital markets play important roles in the economy growth of the market. A well functioning market insures that both corporation and investors get or receive fair prices for their securities. It examine the impact of capital market on the Nigeria economy and also examine how stock
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Interests in the study of economic growth and development have been on the increase especially since the middle of the present century. Economic growth results in the expansion of a country’s production possibility curve such that the potential output of the country is increased beyond the previous levels. Thus growth is often defined in terms of a sustained increase in the real per capita income of a country. Simon Kuznets in (Todaro‚ 1885)‚ defined a country’s economic growth as “a long term rise in
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Industrialization has not only changed the way the world do business but also changed the world itself. Fortunately‚ Nigeria is one of the countries that did not escape its impact. Industrialization is the process of social and economic change that transforms a human group from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one. It is a part of a wider modernization process‚ where social change and economic development are closely related with technological innovation‚ particularly with the development of large
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THE IMPACT OF MONEY SUPPLY ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF NIGERIA CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In the critical observation of the recent Nigerian economic position‚ there has been a great divergence between the rate at which money is supplied and the exact impact it has on the general price level‚ which results in inflation and deflation on one hand‚ and the output growth (productivity) on the other hand. Although‚ it had occurred to our mind that Nigerian
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Agricultural Economics of Nigeria: Paradoxes and Crossroads of Multimodal Nature Professor Eric C. Eboh Professor of Agricultural Economics University of Nigeria CONTENTS 1.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 2 2.0 CONCEPTUAL APPROACH OF THIS INAUGURAL LECTURE 6 REFLECTIONS ON THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY 8 3.0 4.0 5.0 AGRICULTURE FROM THE LOOKING GLASS OF MAN’S ECONOMIC HISTORY 16 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY FROM PARADIGMATIC VIEWPOINTS ABOUT THE STATE VIS-A-VIS MARKET 21 6.0 NIGERIAN AGRICULTURE
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BDMF7053: GLOBAL ECONOMIC THEORIES AND ISSUES SEMESTER 1 2012/2013 FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN MALAYSIA AND ITS IMPACT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH BY: RODZIAH AHMAD (S93935) FOR: PROF. DR. K KUPURAN VISWANATHAN DATE SUBMISSION: 10 JANUARY 2013 Introduction Foreign direct investment (FDI) means an international capital flows in which a firm in one country creates or expands a subsidiary in another (Krugman & Obstfeld‚ 2006). Directly‚ it means the subsidiary not only has the financial
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www.ccsenet.org/ijef International Journal of Economics and Finance Vol. 4‚ No. 1; January 2012 Adopting Strategic Management Approach in the Capital Market Development: The Nigerian Case Augustine‚ UJUNWA‚ Ph.D (Corresponding author) Department of Banking and Finance‚ University of Nigeria‚ Enugu Campus Tel: 234-803-501-0116 E-mail: austinesilver@yahoo.com Nwanneka Judith‚ MODEBE Department of Banking and Finance‚ University of Nigeria‚ Enugu Campus Tel: 234-703-066-2470 Received: July 25‚ 2011
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Impact of Foreign aid on economic Development of Pakistan Submited to: Ms. Samreen Manawar Submitted by: Bushra Mahmood Class: BS (Hons) Roll No: 1891 “Department of Economics” Lahore College for Women University‚ Lahore. Table of Contents Abstract Ch # 1
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