CHRRD PUBLICATIONS
Nigeria’s Corruption and Related
Economic Behaviour In Their Global Context (September
2003)
The first in a
series of CHRRD Research Reviews, this 44-page web document with 70 sources analyses
international and domestic perceptions of Nigerian corruption. Corruption's
causes, effects, remedies and the origins of the global anti-corruption campaign
are summarised from the literature. Nigerian corruption levels are shown
to be indistinguishable from any of the bottom seventh of Transparency
International's 2002 list. Eighty percent of the world's population has an
average corruption rating that is one-third of the "cleaner" twenty
percent.
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Nigerian
Violence: A Review of Statistics and Perceptions
(October
2003)
Analysis of recent data on criminal violence in
Nigeria - with a focus on fatalities - in their global context. We show that
international perceptions of Nigerian violence rates are exaggerated, while domestic
perceptions, including subjective feelings of happiness and life satisfaction, are closer to
reality. Determinants of Nigeria's violent conflicts
and their remedy are summarised from the literature. With 52 sources, this review is
24
pages in length.
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Nigerian
Demographic Dynamics In a Global Context
(October
2003)
Via UN population data and recently published
historical estimates, we collate continental data on population and population
growth rates, from 0 C.E. to 2050, along with birth, death and infant mortality
rates and population density projections for Nigeria and other African countries
from 1950 - 2050. We show that Africa and the European-settled areas are
undergoing a reversal in their global population proportions, with Africa's
share increasing from 7% in the early 20th-century up to 20% around 2050, while
the share for other non-Asian populations is declining from 40% down to
20%. We examine constant-fertility-predicated paranoia concerning
"overpopulation" and Nigeria's National Policy on Population. Cited
sources: 32, Length: 27 pages.
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Nigerian
Social and Economic Inequality In Its Global Context
(November
2003)
Drawing on research including that of Angus Maddison, François Bourgignon,
and Xavier Sala-i-Martin, between-country and within-Nigeria distributions of
lifespan, human development and material wealth are explored. We present
regional per capita GNP data going back two millennia and life expectancy
estimates from 1820 to 2050. Nigerians lived 37% shorter than Britons in
1820, 50% shorter from 1900 to 1950, narrowing to 31% in 2000 and projected to
close to 22% in 2050. The picture for material wealth is the reverse:
Nigeria in 1998 had more citizens living in $1 per day poverty than any other
nation,
and its internal income distribution places it among the most iniquitous 10% of
the world population. Cited
sources: 57, Length: 38 pages.
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Nigeria
and International Development Co-operation: A Critical Review
(November
2003)
We look at international development flows - official development
assistance, direct foreign investment, trade, private voluntary donations and
debt servicing, and contrast them with other countries in Africa to show that
Nigeria's aid levels have been about one-fifteenth the average since 1960. We
then consider how these low aid levels may have hindered social and economic
development, and show, for example, how a similarly "corrupt" and
power-centric nation with a similar human development score to Nigeria's in
1975, Bangladesh, has now surpassed Nigeria and risen into the middle human
development group. A snapshot of Nigerian civil society groups in 2003 is
given, as is a brief discussion of alternative development paths. Cited
sources: 52, Length: 55 pages.
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Nigeria's
Bitumen Exploration And Exploitation Initiative News Articles And Related
Documents 1999-2003
For the benefit of civil society
groups in Nigeria and abroad, CHRRD has compiled on its website a listing of thirty texts from
newspaper articles and related sources, documenting Nigeria's bitumen (tar
sands) extraction project, currently in development in southern Ondo State.
Justice: Human
Rights and Community Development Quarterly
CHRRD’s printed newsmagazine has been published since 1998,
highlighting reports of its public education workshops, partnerships, as well as
human rights-related news and analysis.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
A print-format grassroots public education document, this 40-page booklet has had
three printings since 1999, and is sold to members of the public for N100.
Written in simplified, layperson’s English, it outlines citizens’ civil,
political, and social rights, covering the police, bail, arrest, warrant, the
court system, and the legal rights of tenants and
landlords.
MEDIA CAMPAIGN & SOCIAL ADVOCACY
CHRRD
staff members have had numerous articles and interviews published in the
Nigerian press and on the Internet, including the Nigerian Tribune, Daily
Monitor, Post Express (Lagos) and Weekend Third Eye and they appear regularly on
television and radio. Key coverage of CHRRD’s public complainants appears in
the Tribune’s Truth Commission column in the Sunday Tribune.
