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Category Archives: Economic Growth
Nigeria-Decides-2019: Why Nigerians will Vote Against President Buhari and for Atiku Abubakar
“For Africa to succeed, Nigeria must succeed and more importantly, if Nigeria fails the world is in trouble”. ~ Tony Blair, 2003 One of the key areas which Nigeria must do well as a key example to rest of Africa … Continue reading
Posted in #Corruption, #Unemployment, Africa, Democracy, Democracy and Politics, Development, Development and Economic growth, Economic Growth, Governance, Nigeria Election, Sustainable Development Goals
Tagged #Corruption, Atiku Abubakar, Central Bank of Nigeria, China, Economic Policy, Economic Recession, NigeriaDecides2019, President Buhari
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Slave Trade in Libya like the Deaths in Medditterian Sea is Caused by the African Governments
The horrifying reports brought to light by the CNN film crew who secretly filmed actions of humans being auctioned as a slave in Libya two weeks ago has created an uproar globally; causing shocks and condemnations. Majority of the slaves … Continue reading
Posted in #Corruption, #Unemployment, Africa, Development, Development and Economic growth, Economic Growth, Governance, Nigeria, Poverty
Tagged #Africa, #Unemployment, Guinea, Italy, Libya, Nigeria, poverty, Slave Trade
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Nigeria’s Political Economy & the Implication for Sustainable Development
The 2006 British White paper on good governance opens with a bold assumption, stating that good governance is about good politics, period! That good governance is predetermined by the nature of politics (good or bad). Politics is central to reducing service delivery as it shapes and influences policy making. In other words, politics determines who gets what. Furthermore, underlying politics are elites who fund campaigns; making money the most essential tool in politics. Continue reading
Obession With Fighting Corruption Is Where Buhari is Getting It Wrong
The Buhari led-administration campaigned and won election purely on the basis of fighting and or setting the precedence on reducing corruption in Nigeria. The challenges with Buhari’s understanding of tackling corruption is the assumption that corruption is a tangible that … Continue reading
How Nigeria Can Navigate the Current Economic Uncertainities
When an economy is distressed, exchange rates become volatile and countries rush to stem potential risk. What risks should countries in this scenario mitigate —and how? The reduction in oil price has brought exchange-rate risk back to the forefront in … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Growth, Uncategorized
Tagged #EconomicGrowth, #Inequality, CBN, Commodity, Development Policy, Economic Policies, Finance, Governance, Macroeconomics, Nigeria, Oil Price, poverty, Risk Management
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How Nigeria Should Navigate Economic Uncertainties
When an economy is distressed, exchange rates become volatile and countries rush to stem potential risk. What risks should countries in this scenario mitigate —and how? The reduction in oil price has brought exchange-rate risk back to the forefront in … Continue reading
Harnessing the Informal Sector for growth in Nigeria
Lately, many African nations have experienced the Africa rising revival, however, it has not necessarily created decent jobs to accommodate the nation’s growing population. Deepening unemployment crisis remains a huge plague African government are caught up with trying to mediate … Continue reading
Right policies to boost growth in Africa; beyond 2015
In Africa, economic growth is continuously failing to create jobs and lift a significant number of Africans out of poverty. Subsequently, predictions of economic growth acceleration have so far failed to substantially identify practical factors that could make such growth … Continue reading
Posted in Development and Economic growth, Economic Growth, Governance, Politics, Poverty
Tagged #EconomicGrowth, #Informal Sector, #Nigeria #PrivateSector #Growth #development, #Politics #StructuralAdjustment #Policy, #post-mdg2015 #Africa #Nigeria #Economic #Growth #oil #naturalResources #Angola #Ghana #wellbeing, #StructuralAdjustment, Development Policy, poverty
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Why President Jonathan Lost the Election to Buhari
The world is still in amazement over ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari’s wide margin victory against President Jonathan. This is a significant event for Nigeria’s democracy- and a huge win for the continent at large. Goodluck Jonathan’s quick congratulatory phone call … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Democracy, Democracy and Politics, Development, Economic Growth, Governance, Politics, Poverty
Tagged #Africa, #BringBackOurGirls, #Corruption, #HumanRights, #Inequality, #Microfinance #Rural development #poverty #Inequality #Development #Entrepreneur, #Nigeria #PrivateSector #Growth #development, #NigeriaDecides, #post-mdg2015 #Africa #Nigeria #Economic #Growth #oil #naturalResources #Angola #Ghana #wellbeing, #Poverty, democracy, Elections, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, NNPC
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My Comments on: Parking charges could boost Nigeria’s income by $10bn
VENTURES AFRICA – Currently, the Nigerian government is running low on revenue due to the steep decline in oil prices to less than 50 dollars a barrel. This has led many analysts to question how the national and state governments … Continue reading
Posted in #Unemployment, Africa, Development, Development and Economic growth, Economic Growth, Governance, Politics, Poverty
Tagged #Africa, #AfricaRising, #EconomicGrowth, #MiddleClass, #post-mdg2015 #Africa #Nigeria #Economic #Growth #oil #naturalResources #Angola #Ghana #wellbeing, #Poverty, Elite
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Making Growth More Tangible Through Equality
Depending on what you choose to look at, this administration has done the most in Nigeria’s history to stimulate economic growth, however, the things it failed to as a result of ignorance or a lack of preparation to tackle the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Development, Development and Economic growth, Economic Growth, Governance, Politics, Poverty
Tagged #AfricaRising, #EconomicGrowth, #GDP, #InclusiveGrowth, #Inequality, #post-mdg2015 #Africa #Nigeria #Economic #Growth #oil #naturalResources #Angola #Ghana #wellbeing, #Post2015, #Poverty, Agriculture, goverancne, middle class
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Africa Rising but are Africans rising?
The story of Africa’s rising(Nigeria) continues to mislead many experts on development proclaiming the “end of poverty,” activist Thomas Pogge contends that poverty won’t go away anytime soon, unless the rules that escalates inequality are addressed at their roots. This … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Development, Economic Growth, Politics, Poverty
Tagged #Africa, #AfricaRising, #CGI2014, #EconomicGrowth, #Inequality, #MiddleClass, #Post2015, #Poverty, development, Nigeria
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Efficient Seed Funding; lessons learned
“Forms of help that overrides or undercut people’s capacity to help themselves are unhelpful help” David Ellerman, 2005 The advantage of seed-funding as opposed to the micro-lending is that, it takes financial pressure off beneficiaries and allows room for the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Development, Development and Economic growth, Economic Growth, Poverty
Tagged #Africa, #Entrepreneurship, #Microfinance #Rural development #poverty #Inequality #Development #Entrepreneur, #Nigeria #PrivateSector #Growth #development, basis skills, Economic development, ICT, NGO, YOUWIN
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Harnessing Job-Creating Growth; World Economic Forum on Africa Edition
“Africa’s Growth is unsustainable because it’s mostly reliant on commodity; pumping from the ground and earning income” ~ Winifred Byanyima Against all odds, the just concluded world economic forum on Africa in Abuja Nigeria was a success. The forum had … Continue reading
Rebecca's thoughts on Development 