The overall purpose of this study was to determine the job prospects and relevance of printing education to the printing industry. The study was conducted in four Nigerian cities—Lagos, Kaduna, Kano and Benin City.

Against the background of Nigeria’s substantial rise in oil income, under three distinct chapters, this thesis analysed poverty mobility, inequality, and developments in oil industry. Given that the rate of progress against poverty is considered to be an increasing function of growth (Ravallion and Chen, 1997; Ravallion, 2001; Dollar and Kraay, 2002, 2016); and based on documented evidence on the negative effect of oil intensity on growth, it is hypothesized that: (a) ‘resource-curse’ makes it harder to grow the economy (e.g Gelb (1988) and associates, Sachs and Warner (1995, 1997, 2001), Auty (2001); Gylfason (2011; 2001), and Sala-i-Martin and Subranmanian (2013)); (b) inequality is growth-impeding and also make it harder for the growth that occurs to help poor people (Ravallion, 2007). Therefore, the presence of ‘resource-curse’ and the high level of inequality in Nigeria could explain the country’s inability to address its rising poverty incidence, given its enournous oil wealth. In other words growth drives poverty reduction. Growth is crowded-out by ‘resource-curse’ (or oil intensity). Therefore oil intensity harms poverty reduction. To provide the contexts for these hypotheses, we open the thesis by clearly laying out, in Chapters 1 and 2, the groundwork for the analyses that follow: respectively, general introduction, and review of relevant literature. We analyse the evolution of welfare of households according to the demographics of the household heads in Chapter 3. In Chapters 4, 5 and 6, we asked the following questions and try to address the questions using original survey data on Nigeria and aggregate-level data on oil-related variables. What is the current extent of poverty and inequality in Nigeria? How have these evolved through the years? Is there micro-based evidence of the ‘curse-effect’ of oil on the average living standards of households in the country? Since a static poverty profile understates the extent of poverty, in Chapter 3, we construct and used a synthetic panel to measure poverty dynamics (i.e. the rates of poverty transitions, movement in and out of poverty or individual poverty experiences through time) in the country. In addition, we model the determinants of poverty dynamics using Censored Least Absolute Deviation (CLAD) estimator. The chapter produces evidence that there were more transitions [into] than exits from poverty over 1980-2010; and, as a result, absolute poverty incidence has risen by nearly four-fold over the period. We also find evidence that much of the observed poverty in Nigeria is chronic than transient and the determinants of transient and chronic poverty are not congruent. For instance, the dummy coefficient for households living in oil producing states indicate stronger impact on transient than chronic poverty. Finally, drawing on six sweeps of household surveys of Nigeria that together span 1980–2010 with a pooled sample size of about 97,000 households and data on Nigeria’s age-gender-specific life expectancy from the World Health Organization, this paper shows that about 72 percent to 91 percent of Nigeria’s poor are at risk of spending their entire life below the poverty line. To show this, I estimate the duration of poverty spells and link this to the average age of the poor and to the life expectancy. I find that the poor are expected to escape poverty at the age of 85.46 years on average. However, there is heterogeneity in the exit time, with the transient poor averaging 3–7 years below the poverty line and the chronically poor averaging 37 years or more. Given these exit times and life expectancy, the mean age of the poor at their expected time of escaping poverty exceeds the average life expectancy, meaning some of the poor are not guaranteed to escape poverty in their remaining lifetime. The implication is that growth in Nigeria has not been sufficient nor has it demonstrated the potential to help the poor break free from poverty. However, like Brazil, Nigeria can significantly reduce poverty without absolute reliance on economic growth by reducing its high inflation rate and substantially expanding its social security and social assistance transfers. In Chapter 5, using household surveys of Nigeria, we link and analyse the evolution of poverty in Nigeria to the response of poverty to growth. In particular, we test two hypotheses [put forward by earlier studies]: (i) "Growth is still good for the poor" - (Dollar, Kleineberg, & Kraay, 2016); (ii)" Inequality is bad for the poor" - (Ravallion and Chan, 2007). In a two-fold aim, we estimate the various measures of distribution in order to see how inequality has evolved over 1980-2010 on one hand, and link this evolution to the response of poverty to growth, on the other. Based on the findings, our measures of distribution are all in agreement that Nigeria is less unequal in 2010 than it was in 1980. This decline in inequality, we found, was partly driven by contractions in average living standards, 'pro-poor' growth during 1996-2004 and redistribution of welfare among the non-poor rather than, as expected, redistribution between the non-poor and the poor. Also, we found that the changing pattern of inequality has mitigated the impact of contraction on the poor and in another period, countervailed the gains of growth that should have accrued to the poor. We investigate in Chapter 6, at a micro-level, the hypothesis that the abundance of natural resources (e.g. oil) exerts a depressing effect on growth. Instead of growth in GDP per capita, growth in PCE was used as the LHS variable in the growth regression. Because the surveys in Nigeria are not panel, we follow Deaton (1985) to construct a pseudo panel for the above exercise. This chapter did not find – as far as our leading measures of oil intensity are concerned – negative effects of changes in oil intensity on changes in household consumption. However, growth in the country’s oil revenue is found to be growth-impeding in household consumption. For instance, based on our POLS (FE) results, a 1% rise in real oil revenue is associated with decline in per capita expenditure of households by 0.35%. The impact of the variable that measures oil output (in barrels) per person per day, is negative both for POLS and FE estimations and significant at 1% levels. This result has two implications. First, the country’s population size has been growing at a rate faster than the output from oil, i.e the country’s major source of revenue. More clearly, the more Nigerians there are, for every barrel of crude produced per day, the slower the growth in household welfare. Precisely, if the number of citizens for every barrel of crude produced per day grows by 100%, household welfare will decline by 52%. We provide general policy conclusion in Chapter 7.

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Im Rahmen der Abschlussuntersuchung der Fall-Kontroll-Studie (September 2005- Oktober 2007) des Missionsärztlichen Instituts Würzburg in Kaduna, Nigeria, wurde die spezifische Symptomatik, die Blutwerte sowie die motorische Leistungsfähigkeit bei 124 Kindern mit Rachitis und 87 gesunden Kontrollen im Alter von 1 bis 18 Jahren analysiert und mit den Eingangs- und Verlaufswerten verglichen. Dabei wurden die Dimensionen der subjektiven und objektiven Einschränkungen des Bewegungsapparates, der motorischen Fähigkeiten Koordination, Kraft, Ausdauer und Beweglichkeit sowie der krankheitsspezifischen Serumwerte Calcium, PTH und Vitamin D gemessen und nach Alter, Geschlecht, klinisch-orthopädischen Untersuchungsergebnissen und durchgeführter Intervention analysiert. Die 2005 begonnene Substitution mit Calciumcarbonat über 3 Monate führte bei 54 Kindern zu einer Angleichung an die erhobenen Kontrollwerte. In Relation zu vergleichbaren Interventionsstudien kam es zu einer reduzierten Besserung. Begann die Therapie vor der motorischen Entwicklungsphase vor dem 7. Lebensjahr, so konnten Leistungsminderungen kompensiert werden. Die erhobenen Werte der 58 Teilnehmer der zweiten Interventionsgruppe mit Calciumlaktat sind zwischen den Studienergebnissen der aktiven und der therapierten Rachitis einzuordnen. Erstmals wurden die Eingangs- und Ausgangswerte von 12 symptomatischen Teilnehmer ohne wahrgenommener Therapie dokumentiert, mit dem Ergebnis einer vergleichbaren Besserung der klinischen und serologischen Werte wie die therapierten Teilnehmer. Die Ergebnisse bestätigen erstmals anhand eines objektiven Testverfahrens die Annahme, dass zwischen dem Ausprägungsgrad der Rachitis und der motorischen Leistungsfähigkeit ein Zusammenhang besteht. Die aufgezeigten Ergebnisse verdeutlichen, dass eine Calcium-Mangel-Rachitis erfolgreich mit einer alleinige Substitution von Calcium therapiert werden kann, besonders vor dem 7. Lebensjahr. Dabei gilt neben einer ausreichenden Substitution an Calcium auch eine adäquate Compliance sicherzustellen. Mit der Erhebung der klinischen, motorischen und serologischen Werte wurde eine Datenbasis geschaffen, anhand derer es zukünftig möglich sein wird, Aussagen über den Verlauf und die adäquate Therapie von Kindern mit Rachitis in Nigeria zu treffen. / In Kaduna, Nigeria, 124 children with rickets and 87 healthy controls aged 1 to 18 years were analyzed and compared according to clinical signs, serum parameters and motor skills within the framework of a case-control study of the Missionsärztlichen Institut Würzburg (09/2005-10/2007). The results confirm the connection between the severity of rickets and motor skills, the successful treatment just by substituting calcium and documented the course of 12 children with rickets without successful treatment.

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Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka vilka inträdeshinder svenska och norska företag upplever vid sitt marknadsinträde i Nigeria. För att uppnå det syftet har en enkätundersökning genomförts. Den inkluderar 21 inträdeshinder som är utvalda utifrån tidigare forskning, samt rekommendationer från Svenska Ambassaden, Norska Ambassaden och Exportrådet. Resultat visar att det inträdeshinder som företagen upplever i störst utsträckning är korruption, följt av: oväntade ändringar av lagar, terrorism, brist på elektricitet, politisk osäkerhet, brist på transportsystem och brist på telekommunikation.  Det innebär att de största inträdeshindren är relaterade till den politiska situationen i Nigeria eller till landets bristande infrastruktur. Enligt vår mening kan uppsatsen bidra med ett ramverk över eventuella inträdeshinder som kan upplevas vid ett marknadsinträde till andra afrikanska länder. Samtidigt är vår rekommendation att komplettera det ramverket med andra eventuella inträdeshinder som kan vara specifika för det land som undersöks. Vi kommer även fram till att det är mer lämpligt för multinationella företag att etablera sig i Nigeria eftersom de har mer resurser till att överkomma de inträdeshinder som ett marknadsinträde kan innebära.

This study examines how the uneven application of regulatory standards in oil exploration and extraction in Nigeria has exacerbated ethnic and class tensions and how the oil exploration activities have affected the individual and collective lives of the people in the Niger Delta region. Overall, the study links the individual and collective lives of Nigerians, particularly people in Obelle and Obagi communities to the political economy of global capital. Furthermore, the study explores how the expansion and activities of global capital necessarily create ethnic tension, class struggle, and gender inequality. In order to maintain the status quo, global capital creates structural inequalities that divide societies into hierarchies of the rich and the poor. The study also examines the strategies adopted by the people to ameliorate negative consequences of oil exploration in the communities.<p>In this study, the researcher posits that there is a relationship between the uneven application of international and national regulations in oil production by MNCs and environmental degradation as well as the negative effect on peoples live and means of livelihood, resulting in competition for scarce resources, which in turn have exacerbated ethnic conflict between and among communities. Consequently, the main questions addressed in the study focus on if, how, and why globalization, carried out through the activities of MNCs, affects ethnic tension, class struggle, and gender inequality. In order to address the questions, a critical ethnographic paradigm was used to explore and explain the processes of globalization that affect the peoples lives and means of livelihood. Since this studys focus is on a neglected population (Obelle and Obagi communities), a critical ethnographic paradigm was used to speak on behalf of the subjects as a means of empowering them by giving more authority to their voices. Consequently, this study has the possibility of not only speaking about the marginalization of the people of Obelle and Obagi communities and their livelihood but, also, speaking on their behalf in order to increase awareness of their present economic situation, aiming at the general improvement of their economic situation and quality of life. This study, therefore, provided the subjects an opportunity to articulate their economic problems and share their lived experiences in a region that has been devastated by the activities of oil MNCs. Data were collected and analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The specific methods used in data collection included in-depth interviews, questionnaires, and observation. Analysis of the data was done by employing a variety of methods that includes a combination of descriptive statistics based on cross-tabulation, analysis of themes that emerged from in-depth interviews, and Atlas.ti 5.0 qualitative analysis computer programme to show the relationship between variables that emerged from the study. The results obtained from the study support the hypothesis that the oil MNCs in Nigeria, in partnership with the Nigerian government, have engaged in a process of resource exploitation that has resulted in economic expropriation, political disenfranchisement, social dislocation, anomie and environmental devastation, of the people of the Niger Delta and Obagi/Obelle in particular.

This study examines how the uneven application of regulatory standards in oil exploration and extraction in Nigeria has exacerbated ethnic and class tensions and how the oil exploration activities have affected the individual and collective lives of the people in the Niger Delta region. Overall, the study links the individual and collective lives of Nigerians, particularly people in Obelle and Obagi communities to the political economy of global capital. Furthermore, the study explores how the expansion and activities of global capital necessarily create ethnic tension, class struggle, and gender inequality. In order to maintain the status quo, global capital creates structural inequalities that divide societies into hierarchies of the rich and the poor. The study also examines the strategies adopted by the people to ameliorate negative consequences of oil exploration in the communities.<p>In this study, the researcher posits that there is a relationship between the uneven application of international and national regulations in oil production by MNCs and environmental degradation as well as the negative effect on peoples live and means of livelihood, resulting in competition for scarce resources, which in turn have exacerbated ethnic conflict between and among communities. Consequently, the main questions addressed in the study focus on if, how, and why globalization, carried out through the activities of MNCs, affects ethnic tension, class struggle, and gender inequality. In order to address the questions, a critical ethnographic paradigm was used to explore and explain the processes of globalization that affect the peoples lives and means of livelihood. Since this studys focus is on a neglected population (Obelle and Obagi communities), a critical ethnographic paradigm was used to speak on behalf of the subjects as a means of empowering them by giving more authority to their voices. Consequently, this study has the possibility of not only speaking about the marginalization of the people of Obelle and Obagi communities and their livelihood but, also, speaking on their behalf in order to increase awareness of their present economic situation, aiming at the general improvement of their economic situation and quality of life. This study, therefore, provided the subjects an opportunity to articulate their economic problems and share their lived experiences in a region that has been devastated by the activities of oil MNCs. Data were collected and analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The specific methods used in data collection included in-depth interviews, questionnaires, and observation. Analysis of the data was done by employing a variety of methods that includes a combination of descriptive statistics based on cross-tabulation, analysis of themes that emerged from in-depth interviews, and Atlas.ti 5.0 qualitative analysis computer programme to show the relationship between variables that emerged from the study. The results obtained from the study support the hypothesis that the oil MNCs in Nigeria, in partnership with the Nigerian government, have engaged in a process of resource exploitation that has resulted in economic expropriation, political disenfranchisement, social dislocation, anomie and environmental devastation, of the people of the Niger Delta and Obagi/Obelle in particular.

Zugl.: Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 2009

Author's thesis (doctoral). / Includes bibliographical references and index.