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1 online resource (271 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Perspectives on the State, Class, and Community; Politics; Capitalist Development; Organisation; Notes; Part One State, Society, and Economy; 2 State, Society, and Economy: Historical Background; Federal Structure, Regions, and Unequal Development; Capital and Class; Politics and Patronage; State and Economy; Conclusion; Notes; Part Two Political Development; 3 Military Government and Politics, 1970-1979; The Gowon Regime, 1970-1975 |
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The Murtala Mohammed-Obasanjo Regime: The Return to Civil RuleConclusion; Notes; 4 A Hollow Democracy: Civil Rule, 1979-1983; The National Party of Nigeria; The Centre and the States; Corruption; The 1983 Elections and Their Aftermath; Conclusion; Notes; 5 The Return of the Military: The Buhari Regime; Order and Discipline; Economic Policy; Conclusion; Notes; 6 The Babangida Regime; The Exercise of Power; Religious Controversy and Conflict; The Return to Civil Rule; Conclusion; Notes; Part Three Economic Development; 7 The State, Oil Dynamics, and the Economy, 1970-1979 |
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Oil Dynamics, Agriculture, and IndustryMacroeconomic Management; The Growth of Public Expenditure and the Expansion of the Public Sector; Indigenisation: Foreign and Local Capital; Conclusion; Notes; 8 Civil Rule and Economic Policy, 1979-1983; Macroeconomic Management; Capital Flight, Rents, and Smuggling; Labour and Wage Policy; The Public Sector; Industry and Foreign Investment; Conclusion; Notes; 9 The State and Agriculture in the 1980s; The Economic Context and Aggregate Performance; The Evolution of Policy; The Agricultural Development Projects (ADPs) |
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The River Basin Development Authorities (RBDAs) and the Irrigation SchemesThe Commodity Boards and Marketing; Large-scale Farming, Land Acquisition, and the Land Use Decree; Policies and Politics; Notes; 10 Structural Adjustment and National Accumulation; The IMF Debate and the Introduction of the Structural Adjustment Programme; The Structural Adjustment Programme Since 1986; Wages, Employment, and Labour Policy; Privatisation, Commercialisation, and Foreign Investment; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; About the Book and Author; Index |
| Summary |
Since the end of civil war in 1970, Nigeria has struggled to build a stronger federal center and to reduce conflicts that have arisen from uneven development and from ethnic, regional, class and religious differences. This book provides a comprehensive account of the dynamic interplay between the political and economic forces that have shaped gover |
| Notes |
Tom Forrest was formerly a lecturer in economics at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He is currently a Research Associate at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, and is engaged in research on the growth of indigenous companies in Nigeria |
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Print version record |
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Industrial policy -- Nigeria
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Military government -- Nigeria
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Federal government -- Nigeria
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Economic policy
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Federal government
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Industrial policy
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Military government
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Politics and government
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Nigeria -- Economic policy
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Nigeria -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091883
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Nigeria
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1000235521 |
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9780429302367 |
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0429302363 |
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9781000307405 |
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1000307409 |
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9781000271461 |
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1000271463 |
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9781000235524 |
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