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Underground economy workers vital to Nigeria’s development
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008There are 67 million poor people in Nigeria. This poverty can be reduced by greater interaction between the formal and informal employment sectors. Informal sector workers make beds, repair watches, lend money, run street barber shops, transport goods and people on their motorbikes, sell fruit and cigarettes by the piece.DocumentVoices from the South. The impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard.DocumentObserving how Nigerian teachers actually teach
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008Innovative pupil-teacher classroom interaction can improve the quality of teaching and learning, even when learning resources and teacher training are limited. However, analysis of lessons in Nigerian primary schools shows interaction is one way – heavy emphasis on teacher explanation, recitation and rote learning – with little attention to securing pupil understanding.DocumentCommunity self-mobilisation to end open defecation
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008With the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach, communities analyse their sanitation conditions, understand the impact of open defecation on health and the environment, and take collective action to end open defecation (OD).DocumentElder abuse: the Nigerian experience
International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, 2007There is a ‘secret-cult’ silence on the issue of abuse of the elderly in Nigeria, argues the author of this paper.DocumentElder abuse: the Nigerian experience
International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, 2007There is a ‘secret-cult’ silence on the issue of abuse of the elderly in Nigeria, argues the author of this paper.DocumentWaiting for the hangman
Amnesty International, 2008Under international human rights standards, capital punishment can only be used after the most exacting due process of law. However, as this Amnesty International report on death penalty in Nigeria shows, the failures in the Nigerian criminal justice system routinely breach international human rights law and standards.DocumentModelling the inflation process in Nigeria
African Economic Research Consortium, 2008This paper analyses the main sources of fluctuations in inflation, and builds an econometric model that explains the inflation process in Nigeria.DocumentBroken promises: human rights, accountability and maternal death in Nigeria
Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2008The number of maternal deaths in Nigeria is second only to that of India. The majority of these maternal deaths, as in the rest of the world, are preventable, and while the causal factors can be multiple and complex, many believe that governments must be held accountable when their actions or inaction contribute to this ongoing loss of women’s lives.DocumentBroken promises: human rights, accountability and maternal death in Nigeria
Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2008The number of maternal deaths in Nigeria is second only to that of India. The majority of these maternal deaths, as in the rest of the world, are preventable, and while the causal factors can be multiple and complex, many believe that governments must be held accountable when their actions or inaction contribute to this ongoing loss of women’s lives.Pages