DEV STD C10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Boko Haram, Resource Curse, Indirect Rule
24 Mar 2017
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Resource dependent state makes it a different political economy than china or india. State to capture all the money from the resource (oil) There is a mechanism of how the money is distributed. Paradox of plenty or the resource curse: nigeria underperforms (governance, peoples lives, economic growth) even though the economy seems to grow because it is resource and revenue rich. Used the money to purchase political stability. Public office as a system of private game. Protection pacts: various groups face a common threat. Nigeria had military governance led to 2 insurgencies. One that looked for their share of the funds in the government etc. Regionalized religiously divided, multi ethnic federation: political parties that form provisioning pact. Colonization, slave trade, classical agrarian exporter before they discovered oil. A model of indirect rule and decentralized despotism. Alliances with chiefs and conversion into colonial state bureaucrats. Political regimes: parliamentary to military rule to civilian.
