Prior to and immediately after independence‚ Nigeria was seen as a country with great growth potentials. In fact‚ Nigeria was termed the giant of Africa. But one may be tempted to ask the question ‘what actually went wrong with her industrial sector?’ This paper seeks to comparatively analyze the problems that seem to perpetually keep Nigeria behind its allies using South Africa as a case study. By implication‚ if Nigeria can vigorously address its challenges using the South African model‚ she will not
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CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Economic growth is fundamental for sustainable development. It is not possible‚ for a developing country‚ to ameliorate the quality of life of its growing population without economic growth. The relationship between government expenditure and economic growth has continued to generate series of debate among scholars. Government performs two functions- protection (and security) and provisions of certain public goods (Abdullah‚ 2000) and (Al-Yousif‚ 2000). Protection
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Each stage of life is filled with unique areas of growth and development. It can be seen in the prenatal stage with the transformation from egg to fetus‚ and in the adolescent stage from child to teenager. No stage sees quite as much physical and cognitive development at such a fast pace‚ however‚ as infancy. The first two years of life are a time of extensive growth for infants as they experience rapid physical growth‚ development of motors skills‚ and sensory and perception skills. There are
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Prospect theory Prospect theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979 as a psychologically realistic alternative to expected utility theory. It allows one to describe how people make choices in situations where they have to decide between alternatives that involve risk‚ e.g. in financial decisions. Starting from empirical evidence‚ the theory describes how individuals evaluate potential losses and gains. In the original formulation the term prospect referred to a lottery.
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Chapter 35 Plant Structure‚ Growth‚ and Development Lecture Outline Overview: Plastic Plants? • The fanwort‚ an aquatic weed‚ demonstrates the great developmental plasticity that is characteristic of plants. o The fanwort has feathery underwater leaves and large‚ flat‚ floating surface leaves. o Both leaf types have genetically identical cells‚ but the dissimilar environments in which they develop cause different genes involved in leaf formation to be turned on or off.
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Foreign Direct Investment in India since 1991: Trends‚ Challenges and Prospects M.K. Dutta‚ Assistant Professor (Economics)‚ Department of Humanities and Social Sciences‚ IIT Guwahati‚ Assam‚ India E-mail: mkdutta@iitg.ernet.in & G.K. Sarma‚ Research Scholar (Economics)‚ Department of Humanities and Social Sciences‚ IIT Guwahati‚ Assam‚ India E-mail: g.sarma@iitg.ernet.in (An earlier version of the paper was published as Dutta‚ M.K. and Sarma‚ G.K. (2008) ‘ Foreign Direct Investment
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Challenges Faced by a Country for Economic Development: An economy is flourishing and is shown to be beneficial and fruitful for the people living in it only when the growth of the economy goes up continuously. It is essential for a country to not only develop politically or socially but it also needs to demonstrate economic development in order to sustain in the international market and in order to come ahead of other countries. But it is not very easy for any economy to economically keep growing
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Comparative Analysis of How Prospects and Perspectives of Tissue Engineering Have Evolved Over the Years The concept of engineering living beings is not new to us. Tales of mythical creatures and beasts have long been interwoven with our history and form an essential part of many cultures all over the world. However as a science‚ tissue engineering is thought to be quite young. It evolved as a concept and term in the late 1980s. And although some research was undertaken in that field‚ it was only
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of sustainable development and the acquisition of progressively higher standards of living .Growth without development is being criticised as being an ephemeral and increasingly deceptive indicator of the actual state of the economy .Concepts like population growth which erode economic growth and education and health which enhance human capital accumulation are gaining a lot of importance and are being touted as being as essential to the development of an economy as the growth rate of its GDP .Efficiency
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Role of Voluntary Organizations in Community development in Nigeria Submitted by Ekweruo Chigozie Kenneth. Bsc. Pub.Administration & L.G Studies University Of Nigeria Nsukka ABSTRACT Community development entails the provision of infrastructural facilities to the people. The provision of these social amenities can be attained through a number of ways and/or organizations which includes‚ the government‚ community development associations‚ Voluntary Organizations. A Voluntary Organization or Volunteers
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