Lionel Effiom

Informal Institutions: The Binding Constraint on Institutional Efficiency in Nigeria

Lionel Effiom & Peter Ubi · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2014

This paper contributes to the debate on the relevance of institutions to economic development in Nigeria. Based on the taxonomy of institutions into informal and formal elements and the seeming overemphasis on the latter, the paper extends the argument further by stressing that N...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12243

Industrialization and Economic Development in A Multicultural Milieu: Lessons for Nigeria

Lionel Effiom & Enang Bassey Udah · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2014

While the multicultural structure of Nigeria is seen as a curse rather than a blessing, this paper contends otherwise. It relates multiculturalism to the very subject of industrialisation which has eluded our national economy for decades since independence. Its main thesis is tha...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10943