ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF NIGERIAN CASE By Risikat Oladoyin S. Dauda‚ Ph.D Department of Economics University of Lagos Akoka‚ Lagos E-mail: rissydauda@yahoo.com rdauda@unilag.edu.ng ABSTRACT Although several theories of endogenous growth point towards a positive effect of human capital on growth‚ empirical evidence on this issue has been mixed. Despite various efforts of the successive Nigerian governments‚ virtually all indices of human
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instruments and put on a clinic in every performance of his. More importantly‚ his influence on the music industry has been present ever since he performed his first song showing the mix of explicit lyrics and outrageous productions in a single song‚ while paving the path for many artists of our time with his unique style allowing other artist to explore the road he paved. Prince’s biggest contribution to the music industry is how he changed the desires of his audience through‚ much of at the time‚ his very
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[pic] Faculty of Business and Management BBAP 4103 INVESTMENT ANALYSIS SEMESTER MAY 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page QUESTION A 1. Plantation Industry Analysis 1. Plantation History 4 1. Industry Life Cycle 5 1. Competitive Structure in Industry 5 2. Company Analysis 2. BLD Plantation Berhad 5 2. Company Background 6 2. Financial Statements 6 2. Value of Company
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QEH Working Paper Series – QEHWPS111 Page 1 Working Paper Number 111 Reinventing industrial strategy: The role of government policy in building industrial competitiveness Sanjaya Lall 1 The paper reviews the nature of current globalization and the growing divergence in competitive performance in the developing world. It considers the case for industrial policy‚ contrasting the neoliberal with the structuralist approach. It argues that there is a valid case for selective interventions in overcoming
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Case studies in the Oil and Gas industry Piper Alpha Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. The platform began production in 1976‚ first as an oil platform and then later converted to gas production. An explosion and resulting fire destroyed it on July 6‚ 1988‚ killing 167 men‚ with only 59 survivors. The death toll includes 2 crewmen of a rescue vessel. Total insured loss was about £1.7 billion (US$ 3.4 billion). At the time of
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Can the Music Industry Change its Tune? Introduction The music recording industry has been rocked by the peer to peer file sharing technology. The distribution of music is now available as a digital product (Blockstedt‚ Kauffman‚ Riggins 2004). The industry claims that the file sharing technology has caused a reduction in their profits. The increase in popularity of devices that play the digital music‚ such as the MP3 player‚ Apple iPod and the Dell JukeBox‚ are driving the demand for MP3-formatted
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The Benefits of High-Stakes Testing Testing has become a standard practice used in our education system. Not only have tests become a standard practice in our education system‚ they are being used in employment‚ economy‚ and military as well. “It is estimated that Americans take anywhere from 143 million to nearly 400 million standardized tests yearly for education alone‚ 50 million to nearly 200 million job tests for business and industry‚ and several million more for government and military jobs”
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past‚ the airline industry globally has proven to be resilient. After a short downturn‚ the industry recovered quickly and‚ in fact‚ grew moderately. From 2011 to 2031‚ annual air traffic is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5%‚ and reach about 13.8 billion revenue passenger kilometers (RPK). ! While the mainstay markets (Europe and North America) have not shown significant growth‚ and are not expected to grow substantially in the near future‚ Asia Pacific has
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EVOLVING ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN EDUCATION The Evolving Role of Government in Education Kawanna Rutledge Grand Canyon University EDU 310 October 30‚ 2010 The Evolving Role of Government in Education In the essay‚ I will be discussing the following: the evolving role of state and federal government in U.S. education‚ the church /state debate in public education as while as the laws and cases that had an impact on U.S. education. The state and the federal government have different roles in
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THE MACROECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY IN THE OIL AND GAS EQUIPMENT SERVICE INDUSTRY We explore how the macroeconomic fluctuation can really affect the performance of a company. We analyze the companies of the oil and gas equipment service industry: FMC Technologies‚ NOV‚ and Schlumberger. We use the MUST Analysis in order to discover what were the macroeconomic variables that really affects our companies’ performance‚ the magnitude‚ and the direction of the variables with the performance. The data sources
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