Youth Employment Insecurity and Development in Nigeria

Food insecurity and family structure in Nigeria

The article explores a series of questions and hypotheses related to polygynous family structures and both household and individual-level food security outcomes, using the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey data from Nigeria, collected in 2011, 2013 and 2015. A Correlated Random Effects (CRE) model is used to examine the relationship between polygyny and household-level food securit...

Operation, Problems, and Prospects of Youth Employment Programmes in Oyo State, Nigeria

Oyo State like many of its counterparts in Nigeria is faced with the problem of a high number of its young population lacking access to employment opportunities. The State Government having realized the extent of the problem had to embark on several initiatives with the aim of reducing youth unemployment in the state. Evaluating the impact of any programme is an invaluable element required in p...

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...

Youth Employment in Developing Countries

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Promoting Youth Employment