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      Aiding education? The effect of international aid on local educational enrolment in Nigeria
      Roos Haer, Gudrun Østby - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less-developed states. While much attention has been paid to the...
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      Paralyzing debt burden threatens Africa’s largest economy
      Geoffrey Adonu - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Apart from a ‘ badly flawed ’ national election, insecurity, and mass exodus of its young talents to the Global North (locally known as Japa ), a paralyzing debt burden is among the existential threats facing Nigeria, Africa’s largest and most populous economy. Between 1999—when democracy returned...
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      Armed group opportunism in the face of recent crises
      – COVID-19 and climate change
      Siobhan O'Neil - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Terrorist and other types of armed groups often exploit natural and human-made disasters and emergencies to advance their causes. This paper studies how some armed groups have responded to two recent global emergencies—climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the messaging and actions...
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      Informal–formal workers’ transition in Nigeria
      – A livelihood analysis
      Abiodun O. Folawewo, Olusegun A. Orija - Oxford University Press , 2023
      From the book: The Job Ladder
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      Ethnic inequality, the federal character principle, and the reform of Nigeria’s presidential federalism
      Rotimi T. Suberu - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      The federal character principle is Nigeria’s primary formula for mitigating horizontal inequality and conflict in this chronically fractured society. Designed to guarantee inter-group inclusion in the conduct and composition of governmental institutions, the principle spans direct, integrative, and...
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      Weathering shocks: the effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan Africa
      Aimable Nsabimana - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      There has been much discussion on climate change and its adverse effects on agriculture, including excessive loss of food production. In regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture is the major source of household livelihoods, shocks in weather patterns affect farmers’ expectations of farm...
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      Profit shifting by multinational corporations
      – Evidence from transaction-level data in Nigeria
      Bathusi Gabanatlhong, Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Paulinus Iyika, Miroslav Palanský - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      Research on profit shifting by multinational corporations in developing countries is limited due to a lack of data. In this paper we use, for the first time, novel administrative data on the transactions of multinational corporations operating in Nigeria vis-à-vis related parties in other...
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      Digital technology and productivity of informal enterprises
      – Empirical evidence from Nigeria
      Michael Danquah, Solomon Owusu - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      The lingering policy dilemma facing many governments in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years is what can be done in the short to medium term to boost the output and incomes of individuals and enterprises in the informal sector, given the size and persistence of the sector in the region. In this paper...
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      Informal–formal workers' transition in Nigeria
      – A livelihood analysis
      Abiodun O. Folawewo, Olusegun A. Orija - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
      This study evaluates the effects of the informal sector on Nigerian workers’ livelihoods and analyses workers’ transitions within the informal sector and between informal and formal employment. A binary logit model is applied to General Household Survey panel data for the periods 2010/11, 2012/13...
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      Monetary policy options for managing resource revenue shocks when fiscal policy is laissez-faire
      Chuku Chuku - Economic Change and Restructuring , 2019
      This study examines the implications of alternative monetary policy regimes to deal with resource revenue shocks when fiscal policy is laissez-faire—that is, when the government spends all resource revenue windfalls contemporaneously. A three-sector dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is...
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      Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria
      Belinda Archibong - Oxford Development Studies , 2018
      Part of Journal Special Issue Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change
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      Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance
      – Lessons from Nigeria
      Joanna Buckley, Neil McCulloch, Nick Travis - Oxford University Press , 2018
      From the book: Extractive Industries
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      When the centre cannot hold
      – Patterns of polarization in Nigeria
      Fabio Clementi, Andrew L Dabalen, Vasco Molini, Francesco Schettino - The review of income and wealth , 2017
      Part of Journal Special Issue Inequality
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      Female work status and child nutritional outcome in Nigeria
      Rama Lionel Ngenzebuke, Yoko Akachi - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper delves into the relationship between child nutritional outcome and (multiple) female work status in Nigeria from a micro perspective. The child nutritional outcome is proxied by child weight-for-age. Female work includes wage employment outside the household, household on-farm...
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      Who trusts?
      – Ethnicity, integration, and attitudes toward elected officials in urban Nigeria
      Adrienne LeBas - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
      In the developing world, clientelism is common. In Africa, public office is often used to redistribute resources to ethnically defined constituencies, and this form of clientelistic exchange is a key determinant of vote choice. Does clientelistic exchange shape trust in elected officials as well...
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      Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance
      – Lessons from Nigeria and Ghana
      Joanna Buckley, Neil McCulloch, Nick Travis - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
      Donor interest in the extractives sector is based upon the premise that it represents an opportunity to improve a country’s development prospects. However, in many cases the presence of extractive resources is associated with poor economic performance. As a result, some donors are trying a radically...
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