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Title Why poverty in Nigeria perpetuates: Aiding one's oil supplier. A case study of 6 British Foreign Assistance projects to Nigeria between 2000 - 2009.
Date 2010
Author(s) Udoka Ubah, Charles; Tiwari, Hari; Vazul, Agnes; Bugakovas, Andrius
Contributor(s) Schmidt, Johannes
Abstract Despite its natural resource wealth and the Western commitment to assisting country's path to development striking levels of poverty in Nigeria prevail. Both the Nigerian oil production and the British development assistance to Nigeria stem from the colonial history. The British foreign aid programme grew out of the colonial development acts while the Anglo-Dutch merger Royal Dutch Shell was able to maintain its current dominant role in the country's oil extraction due to preferential treatment by the British authorities of its forerunner Shell-BP, upon entering colonial Nigeria. Even though character of international oil and interstate aid regime has changed significantly during the last fifty years the Britain has recently rediscovered its intimate engagement with past colony in relations encompassing both the political economy of oil and official development assistance. The British transformation from oil sufficiency into net importer status during the recent decade was followed by the six-fold increase in its commitment of development assistance to Nigeria within the same period. Such redefinition of relations took place in the context of surging militancy in the Nigerian oil producing region which hampered activities of Shell and resulted in significant revenue loss; it also has negatively impacted the state of the British economy due to decrease in Nigerian oil production capacity which led to appreciative pressures to the world's oil prices. During the turbulent events in the Niger Delta the British Department for International Development has disbursed part of its funds to tackle the developments in the Niger Delta. It is the assessment of these projects in the light of DfID's proclaimed commitment to poverty alleviation which informs the mission of this project.
Subject(s) Niger Delta; Shell; Nigeria; DFID; foreign aid; development assitance; oil; ogoni; mend; mosop; spdc; marxism; neo-imperialism; political economy oil; marxist IR; fingerprint oil; oil theft; energy security; privatization Nigeria; transparency Niger Delta
Coverage 74 pages
Language eng
Publisher Aalborg Universitet
Relation Udvikling og Internationale Relationer, Kandidat; Development and International Relations, Master; 2. semester; 2. term; http://vbn.aau.dk/ws/files/32426708/Why poverty in Nigeria perpetuates Aiding one's oil supplier. A case study of 6 British Foreign Assistance projects to Nigeria between 2000 - 2009..pdf
Type of publication TERMPAPER
Format application/pdf
Repository Aalborg - Aalborg University
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