Violent Conflict and National Development in Nigeria

Democracy, Violent Conflict and National Development in Nigeria

There seems to be a debate on the validity of democratic peace theory. Whilst, some scholars and schools of thought have argued that democracy engenders peace, others have argued exactly the opposite. In the Nigerian context, democracy appears to have been characterized by violence, this paper examines democracy and violent conflicts and in origins and its implications for development with a pa...

The Economic Crisis, Violent Conflict, and Human Development

An adverse economic shock can be dangerous because its impact may be long-lived if countries are forced into a vicious cycle of low human development and conflict. Drawing on a review of both theoretical and empirical literature, this paper frames the connection between economic factors and conflict within a conceptual framework in which levels of human development and the risk of conflict are ...

Combating Agricultural Child Labour for National Development: Implications for the Millenium Development Goals in Nigeria

A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...

Globalization and Financial Development in Nigeria

Globalization is a worldwide phenomenon. The concept globalization is a very recent term only establishing its current meaning in the 1970s, which emerged from the intersection of four inter related sets of communities of practice, academics, journalists, publishers. This paper models the channels through which globalization affects financial sector development in Nigeria. To this end this stud...

Violent Conflict, Poverty and Chronic Poverty