nigeria case study
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- Nigeria case study
- context
- importance
- global
- contributes 2.7% of world's oil
- 5th larhest UN contributor
- large army for the country
- peace keeping worldwide
- highest GDP in Africa
- contributes 2.7% of world's oil
- regionally
- large army for the country
- global
- culture: nollywood- 2nd largest film industry
- political
- became independent in 1660.
- used to be European colony
- now democratic
- social
- christian and islam
- tensions between north and south
- tensions between north and south
- christian and islam
- importance
- industrial structure
- primary (extraction of natural resources)
- 1975- 69%
- 2014- 30%
- significant decrease but still a large source of economy
- secodary (manufacture)
- 1975- 10.4%
- 2014- 14.3%
- small increase
- tertiary (services)
- 1975- 20%
- 2014- 55%
- significant increase
- primary (extraction of natural resources)
- importance of TNCs
- trans national cooperation- international company
- Nigeria- Shell is a large TNC
- trans national cooperation- international company
- positive impacts
- shell has to pay tax to nigeria
- investment
- shell has invested $12 billion to LICs
- majority staff are Nigerian (90%)
- negative impacts
- some TNCs use child labour
- Nigeria suffer from oil spills
- many profits not invested in host country
- political and trading relationships
- British Colony
- no longer British colony
- still mostly trades with britian
- trades with surrounding countries such as Chad
- still mostly trades with britian
- organisations
- OPEC stabilises oil price
- African Union helps trade between African countries
- UN helps keep peace
- British Colony
- international aid
- types of aid
- voluntary: given by NGOs
- bilateral aid: 1 country to another
- tied: conditions eg- must buy from donor
- multilateral: eg world bank
- development assistance: paid by taxes
- emergency: after natural disaster
- development
- Aid received- Nigeria
- world bank gave $500mil load
- immediately begin to develop
- must be paid back
- uk funded HIV programme
- education passed on not AIDs
- condoms expensive
- world bank gave $500mil load
- types of aid
- impact of economic growth
- environment
- 80% forest destroyed due to logging
- bush burning to make space reduces biodiversity
- oil spills- cause fire and conflict in Niger Delta
- quality of life
- HDI 2005- 0.466
- HDI 2013- 0.504
- large divide between rich and poor
- environment
- context
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