Essays about: "oil in nigeria"
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1. Oil and Dutch Disease : The case of Nigeria
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)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
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2. Soot Pollution in Port Harcourt, Nigeria: A Grand Societal Challenge
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)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
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3. Resisting Corporations : Violent and Nonviolent Conflict in the context of Natural Resource Extraction
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : 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
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4. The Slippery Slope of Oil - Estimating the future GDP of Nigeria with uni- and multivariate approaches
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : 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
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5. The Sustainability Reporter : Sustainability and Unsustainability in Helon Habila's Oil on Water
University essay fromAbstract : Helon Habila left Nigeria for the first time to receive the Caine prize in England in 2001 (The Guardian) and was at the time still working as a journalist. The narrator of his Novel Oil on Water (2011) is also a journalist. Rufus is a journalist seeking the truth. READ MORE