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CHRRD RESEARCH

REVIEW No. 5

Nigeria and International Development
Co-operation: A Critical Review


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Mashood Erubami and Ian R. Young

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOVEMBER 2003

 

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Overview... 5

Summary Points.. 5

Setting the Scene. 7

Vocabulary frequently accompanying discourse on Nigerian development 8

Nigerian Aid Receipts: A Source Analysis.. 9

No Correlation Between Volumes of Development Assistance and Level of Human Development   9

Nigerian ODA Summary: OECD.. 10

DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO NIGERIA COMPARED TO AFRICA AND ALL DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, 1997-2001. 10

Aid to Nigeria, 1960-1998. 11

Net Bilateral ODA to Nigeria, 1998-2000. 13

Nigeria’s Principal Bilateral Aid Donors, 1998-2000. 14

Multilateral Aid Flows into Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Ghana, 1980-2001, millions US $. 14

Decomposition of Multilateral Aid Flows for Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Ghana, 2000, US $, mill. 15

Private Voluntary Inflows. 15

Debt Repayments. 16

Nigerian Trade Flows. 17

Proportions of Nigerian Exports by Country of Destination, 1996-98. 17

Proportions of Nigerian Imports by Country of Origin, 1996-98, Federal Office of Statistics. 17

Nigerian Trade Partners, 1997-2001 International Monetary Fund.. 19

Foreign Direct Investment’s Illusory Promise. 21

The View from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.. 22

Net Official Development And Private Sector Flows To Nigeria, Burkina Faso And Ghana, 1997 – 2001, US $ mill. 22

Why such low ODA?. 23

Three Common Excuses. 23

The Nigerian Fourth Republic’s Anti-ODA Platform... 24

Economist Intelligence Unit, “Country Commerce: Nigeria”, March, 2002. 25

World Bank (1998). Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why.. 25

World Bank (2001). Aid and Reform in Africa: Lessons from Ten Case Studies. 26

A tale of three countries. 27

Nigeria, Ghana, Burkina Faso: Human Development Index vs. Foreign Aid and Investment Flows, Debt Servicing.. 27

Per Capita Investment and Development Flows and Debt Service Outflows For Seven Developing Countries, 1990-2001. 28

Nigeria: A “Difficult” Development Matrix.. 29