Essays about: "nigeria oil"

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  1. 1. Oil and Dutch Disease : The case of Nigeria

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

    Author : Josef Sindre; [2023]
    Keywords : Dutch Disease; Nigeria; Agricultural sector; Natural resources;

    Abstract : This essay examines the impact of the phenomenon of Dutch Disease on the agriculture sector in Nigeria since the beginning of the 1980s. Dutch Disease is a misfortune that generally affects resource-rich countries due to exploiting and exporting their natural resources. READ MORE

  3. 2. Nigeria’s Black Gold: Unravelling the Power of Oil

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Alice Vångell; [2023]
    Keywords : Business and Economics;

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  4. 3. Soot Pollution in Port Harcourt, Nigeria: A Grand Societal Challenge

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Faith Ayomikun Omisakin; [2022]
    Keywords : Soot pollution; Air pollution; Grand societal challenges; Environmental Governance; Illegal bunkering; Stakeholder Theory; Sensemaking Theory; Climate Change;

    Abstract : Soot pollution is a form of air pollution that can severely damage public health and the environment. The Residents of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, and its environs have been suffering from the negative environmental effects of particle (soot) pollution since the fourth quarter of 2016. READ MORE

  5. 4. Resisting Corporations : Violent and Nonviolent Conflict in the context of Natural Resource Extraction

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Jakob Faller; [2022]
    Keywords : civil resistance; nonviolent resistance; violent resistance; natural resource extraction; oil; multination corporations; MOSOP; MEND; U’wa; ELN;

    Abstract : Corporations in the resource extraction industry are frequently criticized and their operations opposed by local communities demanding more benefits, compensation for negative consecuences or oppose resource extraction altogether. Research has focused extensively on nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns that target state and quasi-state actors attempting regime change or self-determination. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Slippery Slope of Oil - Estimating the future GDP of Nigeria with uni- and multivariate approaches

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Clara Karlsson Schedvin; [2021]
    Keywords : Nigeria; Forecasting; GDP; ARIMA; VAR; Oil; Population; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Nigeria is, by population, the largest country in Africa and their economic growth will be a key part in the world reaching the goals of eradicating poverty. This paper investigates the economic growth performance of Nigeria and the relationship between oil and the GDP performance by using growth accounting, ARIMA, VAR and VEC models. READ MORE