How Long to Read Between Resource Plenty and State Failure

How Long Does it Take to Read Between Resource Plenty and State Failure?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 32 minutes to read Between Resource Plenty and State Failure by Christoph Vogel

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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Institut für Afrikanistik), course: Konfliktherd Nigeria, language: English, abstract: Mineral wealth and concomitant phenomena of violence state weakness and corruption have been widely brought into contact by numerous scholars, as a considerable number of empirical cases seem to give evidence to this. Particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa the examples of Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola - just to mention some of the most striking ones - led to various hypotheses about the influence of resource plenty on governance issues. Due to several specific characteristics, the case of Nigeria is different to many others. First of all, the Federal Republic of Nigeria turned out to be Africa's most populous state with about 140 million citizens. In addition the social situation is rather unique, as Nigeria consists of more than 250 ethnic groups. The more than 500 spoken languages spoken in the country further illustrate the socio-cultural diversity. Nevertheless the three major communities include more than two thirds of the country's total population. On the socio-economic dimension a key feature is the overwhelming importance of oil as almost single export good and major contributor of the country's GDP. The strong dependence on oil has been challenging Nigeria's economy considerably and can be seen as a major reason for socio-economic disparities throughout the country, not to forget that it has been the origin for its '(political) Dutch disease'. Contrarily to other so-called 'crisis-states' the main issues threatening statehood and stability in Nigeria can be rather seen as domestic problems. Transnational issues like the relations with Cameroon do not have the same structuring quality as in other states. Although Nigeria improved in TI's CPI of 2008 the country still faces 'institutionalized' clientelism and re

How long is Between Resource Plenty and State Failure?

Between Resource Plenty and State Failure by Christoph Vogel is 89 pages long, and a total of 23,051 words.

This makes it 30% the length of the average book. It also has 28% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Between Resource Plenty and State Failure Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 5 minutes to read Between Resource Plenty and State Failure aloud.

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