Nigeria Case Study

Basic Facts
1. Capital city - Abuja
2. Colonised by Britain - independence 1960
3. Different climates - Northern Desert + Southern rain
4. Lots of culture - football, Nollywood, music
5. Higher GDP in South - more links
6. Big developement gap - north affected by tribes
7. Conflict over ethnic/religious diversity
8. No political stability
Political Links
1. Globally significant - supplies 2.7% world oil + 5th largest peacekeeper
2. Fastest growing in Africa - highest GDP + 3rd biggest secondary sector
3. 70% work in agriculture
4. Part of ECOWAS, CEN-SAD, OPEC, UN + African Union trading groups. Also part of commonwealth
5. Exports oil, gas, rubber, cocoa, cotton
6. High sweet oil reserves mean more money, more jobs and less pressure to scramble for tradable resources.
7. Imports petrol, cars, phones, rice, wheat
Industrial Structure
1. Structure - proportion of the workforce employed in each sector
2. Primary - agriculture Secondary - manufacturing Tertiary - Services Quaternary - Technology
3. In LICs, primary is high, informal (self-employed) is high, very little tech
4. NEEs have high secondary + lots of TNCs use their cheap land
5. In HICs, lots of tertiary - healthcare, law, education etc. and growth of tech jobs
6. Between 1975 + 2014, primary dropped, secondary went up a little + tertiary went up a lot
7. Primary dropped - more tech means less people needed in agriculture Secondary up - government not stealing resources - needs people to produce Tertiary up - Better understanding of health etc. so need people to perform service
TNCs
1. Headquarters in HIC - operate in NEEs
2. Advantages - provide employment, invest, boost local business, boost economy
3. Disadvantages - poor pay + conditions, country doesn't recieve profit, jobs given to migrants
4. Unilever + shell oil operate in Nigeria
5. Shell - 65,000 jobs, 91% investments are local, but some oil spills + $30 billion lost by tribes to Shell
Aid
1. Not just money - food, medicine etc.
2. Gets aid bc it's poor - 170 million people earn <$1/day
3. Education aided- only 57% women get middle school
4. Recieves $500 million from UK, USA + UN - UK gave $1.14 billion in 5 years
5. Small-scale (bottom-up) is effective - directly given, not through governments
6. Examples - NGO mosquito nets + teaching, $500 million from World Bank, USA AIDS education, USAID orphan help
Environmental Issues
1. Industrial Growth - illegal activity, chemical disposal , chimneys + desertification pollute, 75% forests destroyed
2. Commercial farming - land degradation, water pollution, soil erosion + extinction
3. Urban Growth - favelas destroy habitats, traffic congestion pollutes + greenfield is built on
4. Mining - damage to ecosystems, soil erosion, oil spills cause water pollution + fires
Quality of Life
1. Need better paid jobs, better infrastructure, more clothes, food and more education for more doctors etc.
2. HDI is low but improving quickly
3. In 2005, 4% people had internet, 2013, 38% had it
4. Infant mortality has decreased by 4.2%
5. Some has got worse - e.g. people per doctor + access to healthcare decreased by 6%
6. Development gap opening - lots more access to facilities, infrastructure etc. in urban areas, where as rural is much poorer

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