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Nigeria’s renewal: Delivering inclusive growth in Africa’s largest economy

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At current growth rates, Nigeria is poised to become a major economic force in the coming decades. The government’s rebasing exercise has shown that the country has clearly emerged as the largest economy in Africa. Nigeria has a huge endowment of resources, a growing consuming class, and rapidly growing trade and consumer sectors to propel …

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Economic development in Africa

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Africa has experienced high and continuous economic growth in the past  decade, prompting analysts to argue that the continent has reached a turning  point in its development history and is poised to play a more significant role in  the global economy in the twenty-first century. The average annual growth rate  of real output increased from …

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Accumulation by dispossession, climate change and natural resources governance in Africa

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Global economic and political initiatives, allied with national governments and other national and multi-lateral players, are driving a process of massive land alienations in the developing world. The  land  alienations  are  located  in  a  narrative  of  promoting  Foreign  Direct  Investment which will stimulate the modernization of the agricultural sector through large scale commercial farming, and thus …

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