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Governance and Economic Growth in Nigeria: The Role of China and the U.S. between 2001–2011 examines why Nigeria experienced steady economic growth in GDP between 2001–2011. Saidat Ilo argues that improved governance as well as the perceived competition between China and the United States has impacted this growth. He analyzes this perceived rivalry and their policies closely. This book not only contributes to development theories by focusing and analyzing governance but it also goes a step further by filling a gap of contending theories which fail to consider the role governance plays in economic growth and progress particularly in the developing world. Through in-depth research, Saidat Ilo discovers how China and the United States’ foreign policies influence decisions on foreign aid and trade in Nigeria. He shows that there is a direct correlation between good governance and economic growth in Nigeria and provides policy recommendations based on this research.

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Governance and Economic Growth in Nigeria: The Role of China and the U.S. Between 2001-2011 by Saidat Ilo is a valiant and commendable contribution to our understanding of the role and place of the US and China -- two global hegemons -- to the economic and political development of Nigeria between 2001 and 2011. Indeed, this volume is a worthy effort by a young and emerging scholar and is worthy of praise.--Sabella O. Abidde, Alabama State University This book is both compelling and well-informed about the role of governance and its feasible nexus with Nigeria's economic growth. It offers a healthy comparison of the critical balance sheets of the achievements and shortcomings of the Nigerian government in dealing with the vexing questions of the nation's economic past and present. It is also ground-breaking, and theoretically and methodologically grounded. In sum, it comprises a lucid and stringent corrective to the lazy complacency of much conventional wisdom about the past and the present.--Abdul Karim Bangura, American University Center for Global Peace

Governance and Economic Growth in Nigeria: The Role of China and the U.S. Between 2001-2011 by Saidat Ilo is a valiant and commendable contribution to our understanding of the role and place of the US and China -- two global hegemons -- to the economic and political development of Nigeria between 2001 and 2011. Indeed, this volume is a worthy effort by a young and emerging scholar and is worthy of praise. --Sabella O. Abidde, Alabama State University This book is both compelling and well-informed about the role of governance and its feasible nexus with Nigeria's economic growth. It offers a healthy comparison of the critical balance sheets of the achievements and shortcomings of the Nigerian government in dealing with the vexing questions of the nation's economic past and present. It is also ground-breaking, and theoretically and methodologically grounded. In sum, it comprises a lucid and stringent corrective to the lazy complacency of much conventional wisdom about the past and the present. --Abdul Karim Bangura, American University Center for Global Peace

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Saidat Ilo is associate professor of political science at the University of Houston-Victoria.

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