Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-8bhkd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-06T12:46:33.175Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Centralisation and Fiscal Arrangements in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

David G. Offensend
David G. Offensend
Affiliation:
Graduate Student, Harvard Business School, Boston
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The phenomenon of increasing centralisation of governmental authority is often discussed in the development literature, yet there has been little specific, quantitative research in this area. In this short article I hope to make an analysis of the centralisation phenomenon in Nigeria's development, based on such research, using the evolution of the federal fiscal arrangements as a case-study.

Type
Africana
Information
The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 1976 , pp. 507 - 513
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 507 note 1 Carnell, F. G., ‘Political Implications of Federalism in New States’, in Federalism and Economic Growth, a symposium with Hicks, U. K., Carnell, F. G., Hicks, J. R., Newlyn, W. T., and Birch, A. H. (New York and London, 1961), p. 17Google Scholar.

page 509 note 1 SirChick, Louis, Report of the Fiscal Commissioner on the Financial Effects of the Proposed New Constitutional Arrangements (London, 1953), p. 3Google Scholar.

page 509 note 2 SirPhillipson, Sydney, Administrative and Financial Procedure under the New Constitution: financial relations between the Government of Nigeria and the Native Administrations, 1946 (Lagos, 1946)Google Scholar.

page 509 note 3 Adedeji, Adebayo, Nigerian Federal Finance (London, 1969), pp. 54–5Google Scholar.

page 509 note 4 See the Report of the Accountant-General, 1968 (Lagos, 1969).

page 510 note 1 See Daily Times (Lagos), 16 March 1970, p. 1.

page 512 note 1 A. A. Ayida, Presidential Address to the Annual Meeting of the Nigerian Economic Society, 1973, held at Enugu.

page 513 note 1 See, for example, Adedeji, op. cit. p. 153.