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Challenges and Prospects in Nigeria-China Relations
Efforts by scholars to come up with a generally accepte opinion on whether Nigeria or China is a major beneficiary of trade relations have been the subject of controversy. Pro-western scholars were of a view that China has a higher comparative advantage over Nigeria, while others were of contrary opinion. Therefore, this paper examines Nigeria-China economic relations during the Fourth Republic. The major objective of the study is to examine the challenges and prospects of bilateral relations between the two countries. Methodologically, the study adopted a qualitative technique for obtaining relevant materials through the content analysis of documents such as the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Nigeria and China, annual budgetary allocations, and national dailies. The paper concludes that trade relations between Nigeria and China during the period under review were beneficial to the two countries to some extent, both economically and politically. However, China has a higher comparative advantage over Nigeria. This is so because China focuses on the exchange of secondary products for Nigeria’s primary products. The high disparities in the value trade relations resulted into the collapse of most local industries, underemployment, capital flight, and a vicious circle of poverty in Nigeria. Therefore, the paper recommends the revival of collapsed local industries through the transfer of technology from China. This will further encourage improved employment generation, poverty reduction, and skill acquisition for Nigerian citizens.
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The record store book : fifty legendary and iconic places to discover new and used vinyl
From the older to the newer generations of record stores in California, each owner shares facts, history, and distinctive points of view regarding patrons' styles of searching for, finding, and experiencing second-hand music.
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Exploring the Economic Viability of Agro-Ecotourism as a Climate Change Adaptation Measure: A Travel Cost Approach
In this study, we employ the travel cost method to assess the viability of agro-ecotourism in Yuanshan Township, located within the fragile Lanyang River watershed. The local development of agro-ecotourism is the emerging measure that meets forest conservation and soil and water management in steep slopes and viable adaptation strategies in response to the urgent challenges posed by climate change. However, for long-term success, the self-sufficiency and livelihoods of local communities must be prioritized, especially since these communities heavily depend on local resources for their livelihoods. The study site demonstrates the economic success of agro-ecotourism, which allows visitors to utilize local resources and is crucial for boosting the local economy, by applying the travel cost method. This study evaluates the economic value of local natural resources, highlighting that visitor expenditure reflects both recreational resource use and local adaptation measures. The findings indicate significant estimated recreational resource values of TWD 15,748.03 by the negative binomial count data model (1 USD = 31.15 TWD). The results suggest that sustainable local agro-ecotourism measures, balancing conservation and to adapting climate changes, can enhance the economy while supporting residents’ livelihoods in Yuanshan Township.
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Hydrocarbon hucksters : lessons from Louisiana on oil, politics, and environmental justice
\"Hydrocarbon Hucksters is the saga of the oil industry's takeover of Louisiana--its leaders, its laws, its environment, and, by rechanneling the flow of public information, its voters. It is a chronicle of mindboggling scientific and technical triumphs sharing the same public stew with myths about the \"goodness\" of oil and bald-faced public lies by politicians and the captains of industry. It is a story of money and power, greed and corruption, jingoism and exploitation, pollution and disease, and the bewilderment and resignation of too many of the powerless. Most importantly, Hydrocarbon Hucksters is a case study of what happens when a state uncritically hands the oil and petrochemical industries everything they desire. Today, Louisiana ranks at or near the bottom of the fifty states on virtually every measure related to the quality of life--income, health, education, environment, public services, public safety, physical infrastructure, and vulnerability to disasters (both natural and man-made). Nor, contrary to the claims of the hydrocarbon sector, has there been much in the way of job creation to offset all of this social grief.The authors (one a scientist, the other an environmental lawyer) have woven together the science, legal history, economic issues, and national and global contexts of what has happened. Their objective is to raise enough national awareness to prevent other parts of the United States from repeating Louisiana's historical follies. The authors are uncle and niece, a generation apart, who have melded their conclusions from two separate tracks\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Food between the country and the city : ethnographies of a changing global foodscape
\"At a time when the relationship between 'the country' and 'the city' is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon the foundation of Raymond Williams' classic work, The Country and the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect their changing relationship but have also been used to alter the very dynamics through which countryside and cities, and the food grown and eaten within them, are produced and sustained. Leading scholars in the study of food offer ethnographic studies of peasant homesteads, family farms, community gardens, state food industries, transnational supermarkets, planning offices, tourist boards, and government ministries in locales across the globe. This fascinating collection demonstrates that, whether categorized as rural or urban, food around the world today has been shaped by, and in turn has shaped, historical processes through which the country, the city, and the relationship between these places and their foods have continually, and sometimes dramatically, been reconstituted.This text provides vital new insight into the contested dynamics of food and will be key reading for upper-level students and scholars of food studies, anthropology, history and geography\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Evaluation on the Effect of High-Level Scientific and Technological Talents Team Building in Local Industry Based on DEA
In recent years, the attraction and investment of high-level scientific and technological talent team in local industries have been increasing. But how to evaluate the effect of team building is a challenging problem in the development of local industries. This paper establishes a DEA model in which human and financial resources are input, knowledge output, economic benefit and social benefit are output, based on DEA method, combining the characteristics of local industry development and the current situation of high-level scientific and technological talent team. And then, this paper evaluates the construction effect in the past five years and clarifies the shortage of professional and technological talents in W City, clarifies the problems of insufficient professional and technical personnel, insufficient professional team strength and low concentration of regional innovation and entrepreneurship in this city, and puts forward corresponding countermeasures. The purpose of this paper is to provide theoretical ideas for the evaluation of the effect of high-level scientific and technological talents team building in local industries.
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