Nigerian Cabotage: Its Policy, Prospects and Challenges
The purpose of this study is to critically examine the Nigerian Cabotage Law and its policy. It will look at what Nigeria stand to benefit by enacting the Law. It is a fact that some countries attempt certain policies in order to experiment, as to whether it will work for them and then they tap into its exploits. Others venture into specific policies because some have successfully experimented and they believe they can do it too. Whatever category Nigeria falls into, the study will attempt to analyze the policy upon which the Nigerian Cabotage law is anchored. It will examine the issue of Ministerial waiver in the event that there are no indigenous capacities to carry out the objectives as spelt out in the Act. It will also examine the various challenges encountered at different stages of implementation. The study contends that what Nigeria stand to gain by Cabotage transcends what she will lose if the law is not given birth to. It concludes that if the implementation guidelines are jealously adhered to and the enforcements are strictly followed, Cabotage has the potentials of becoming a great rivalry to Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria. Keywords: Nigeria, Cabotage, Maritime, NIMASA, Shipping
A new economic view of American history : from colonial times to 1940
This book asks such questions as: did mercantilism cause the American Revolution?; was slavery profitable?; and what were the causes of the Great Depression?
The Post-Colonial State
Colonialism had established the institutions out of which a smooth transition to formal independence could be made. In terms of macro-economic growth this proved to be successful, but therein lay a number of contradictions which had implications for the shape of the political economy of Independent Malaya. In the following two chapters we will examine these tensions, the basis for their emergence, and the way the State sought to resolve them.