The informal sector particularly the international donor agencies as well as international and local NGOs are offering considerable assistance in developing countries to ensure that the less privileged individual who have no link with the formal financial system are not completely left behind in...

Experts had reiterated that sustainable development is aimed at meeting the needs of the present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This had made every continent to focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), officially known as...

Considerable efforts have been made in Europe and America to investigate the relationship between industry structure and organisation performance. This study extends such investigation to Nigeria. Results are presented for tests of the two contending hypotheses of market structure on the...

It is common with governments of many oil producing developing countries to fix the prices of energy products below their opportunity cost for welfare and redistribution purposes. This has often resulted in huge energy consumption in developing countries and the question that emerge is whether...

Inefficient pricing of energy products has become a common feature of governments in many oil exporting developing countries. As developing countries, this can be justified only when the increased growth results from higher energy consumption. To this end, the study examined the direction of...

The fundamental importance of energy for socio-economic existence cannot be over-emphasized. With an annual average growth rate of 3.6% over the period of 1998 and 2008, the Bolivian economic statistics shows that over 60% of the country's GDP growth rate can be attributed to its export sector....

This study examines the impact of oil price shocks and their transmission channels to selected macroeconomic variables which serve as proxies for economic activities in Nigeria using quarterly data from 1980Q1 to 2011Q4. Empirical analysis was carried out using VAR framework. Further the Impulse...

In this paper, we conduct a financial analysis of a typically viable and unviable World Bank supported hydroelectric projects in China and draw inferences for Nigeria by conducting similar analysis with a classic Nigerian economic and financial environments. The analysis of the hypothetical...

The twin crisis of extensive electricity shortages and the surge in oil demand conveys to the world the inherent weaknesses in China's energy policy instruments. As a country that has enjoyed vibrant growth and relative national stability in recent history and has been striving to ensure that...

Aggregate flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Nigeria, as in economies of the world, fall into different classified sectors of the economy. Studies on FDI in economic literature have been directed at the macroeconomic effects of FDI on economic growth. As sound as the findings of such...