Industrialization in an Open Economy: Nigeria 1945 1966

by Peter Kilby

This book provides a detailed study of how manufacturing and processing industries have developed in the largest country of West Africa. Three chapters devoted to import substitution examine the interaction of growing consumer demand and the market strategy objectives of foreign merchant firms which produced the sudden spurt of industrialization in the late 1950s. It is shown that conventional government promotion policies played an insignificant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521084016
• ISBN13: 9780521084017
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"