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Oil and fiscal federalism in Nigeria : the political economy of resource allocation in a developing country / Augustine A. Ikein, Comfort Briggs-Anigboh.
Lippincott Library HJ1501.Z7 I37 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ikein, Augustine A.
- Series:
- Making of modern Africa
- The making of modern Africa
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations--Nigeria.
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations.
- Revenue sharing--Nigeria.
- Revenue sharing.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Government ownership--Nigeria.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Petroleum--Taxation--Nigeria.
- Petroleum.
- Corporations, Foreign--Taxation--Nigeria.
- Corporations, Foreign.
- Corporations, Foreign--Taxation.
- Petroleum--Taxation.
- Petroleum--Taxation--U.S. states.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Government ownership.
- Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1998]
- Contents:
- Federalism and fiscal policy 2
- Formulation and adoption of revenue allocation policy explanation 6
- Experts and policy making experts and expertise 7
- Rationale for using experts 9
- Constraints and pressures on experts 11
- Experts and policy makers in Nigeria 17
- Composition and selection of fiscal commissions in Nigeria 18
- Organization of study 20
- Organizational structure of the book 23
- 2 Theoretical and historical foundations to fiscal federalism 33
- Public policy approaches and process theoretical approaches 35
- The policy process in developing states 36
- 3 Evolution of federalism in Nigeria 42
- The constitutional background 44
- The early years of Nigerian federalism 46
- The federal era 48
- Military federalism 52
- Federalism and post-military politics 62
- Periods and characteristics of federalism in Nigeria 65
- 4 Nigeria's quest for federalism 78
- Definition of a political party 79
- Political parties in Africa: A general overview 80
- Genesis of political parties in Nigeria 82
- Political parties in the 2nd republic 87
- Roles and performance of political parties in Nigeria 93
- 5 Fiscal federalism and evolution of revenue allocation policy in Nigeria 106
- Fiscal centralization in Nigeria 107
- Fiscal adjustment in federal states 110
- Revenue allocation in Nigeria 112
- The derivation principle 115
- The need principle 116
- 6 Nigeria: Military government, secession, states creation, and revenue allocation system (1966-1979) 124
- Secession and states' creation - relation to revenue allocation 125
- Revenue issue and secession 125
- Oil revenue and states' creation 129
- Early attempts at revenue sharing 130
- The interim revenue allocation review committee, 1968 132
- Fiscal adjustments through decrees 136
- The Technical Committee on revenue allocation, 1977 143
- 7 Revenue allocation in the 2nd Republic, 1979-1982 162
- The presidential commission on revenue allocation 162
- Proposals from federal, state and local governments intergovernmental allocation 168
- Inter-state allocation 171
- Population 172
- Equality of states 174
- Derivation 174
- Okigbo Commission recommendations and reaction 176
- Inter-state proposals 177
- Minimum responsibility of governments 178
- Population 178
- Social development factor 178
- Internal revenue effort 179
- The National Assembly debate on the 1981 revenue allocation bill 188
- Legal battles over revenue allocation bill 201
- Final passage of the 1981 revenue allocation bill 205
- 8 Nigeria: Summary of fiscal federalism in retrospect 218
- 9 Nigeria's revenue sharing problem: Perspectives and choices / Tonyesima Furro, Ph.D. 227
- Pre-oil economy revenue sharing trend 228
- The principle of derivation 234
- Revenue sharing trend in the oil era 237
- The principle of population 239
- Implications for the oil producing areas 241
- Policy options for the Third Republic and beyond 243
- 10 Nigeria: Socio-political development and oil 250
- Ethno diverse politics and the promise of democracy in Nigeria 255
- Ethno-political orientation in Nigeria's nation building 258
- National politics 265
- Nigeria: An overview of oil development and producing areas 271
- Ecclesiastical thoughts on restitution 276
- 11 Oil, fiscal federalism, and Nigeria's destiny 286
- Policy alternatives for better federalism in Nigeria 302
- Nigeria: Oil production and producing areas 337
- Nigeria: Oil contracts, 1994 341
- Nigeria: Oil companies (1993) 342
- Nigeria: Oil producing states 345
- Nigeria: Revenue from oil and non-oil sectors 346
- Value of Nigerian oil exports 347
- Nigeria: Oil prices 1972-1994 348.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-369).
- ISBN:
- 185628848X
- OCLC:
- 40138320
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