The Making of Oil-backed Indigenous Capitalism in Nigeria

New Political Economy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 258-283

  Ovadia, Jesse Salah ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

development; elite accumulation; indigenous capitalism; industrialisation; local content; manufacturing; Nigeria; Nigerian content; oil; oil services; rentier state

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GAS INDUSTRY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIALIZATION; OIL INDUSTRY; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

NIGERIA;

EID: 84876953099     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2012.678822     Document Type: Article

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