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The social entrepreneurship mindset is one that actively seeks to identify and solve problems faced by impoverished communities in a sustainable way they can pay for. Adebayo Alonge Image credit: http://www.noulakaz.net The Entrepreneurial Context Imagine that you are a freshman in a public university whose day by 8 a.m. starts with lectures. You and your colleagues … Continue reading The Social Entrepreneurship Mindset
These tips should serve as a guide with which you evaluate your application. They should not replace your authentic voice, your truth and the way you say it. Remember they are just a guide. So now let us delve into the application. 1. If you had 50 words to introduce yourself to President Obama, what … Continue reading Application Guide for the 2015 Mandela Washington Fellowship
Youths are Africa's future. what would you want current global leaders to invest in so that Africa's youth can achieve their potential.
We have a summary of your favorite blog's performance last year. We trust to make this year better as we concentrate on business and macroeconomic analysis. Here's an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,900 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, … Continue reading 2013 in review
The moves of the U.S. imperialists to violate the sovereignty of the DPRK and encroach upon its supreme interests have entered an extremely grave phase. Under this situation, the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, brilliant commander of Mt Paektu, convened an urgent operation meeting on the performance of duty of the Strategic Rocket Force … Continue reading North Korea’s declaration of war
The World Bank estimates that, on current trends, sub-Saharan Africa will meet the MDGs in 2147 Source: http://www.stephenleahy.net Africa is the only region in the world where poverty and hunger are on the increase. The number of undernourished Africans increased by one million a year from 2000 to 2002, though the proportion of people undernourished … Continue reading What Way Forward For Africa’s Agriculture?
I hope to stir up your collective effective angst at the indignity of your inheritance Oby Ezekwesili image from thisdaylive.com I am hugely delighted to return to my alma mater the great and only University of Nigeria to speak at your 42nd convocation. Twenty eight years ago I sat just like you those of you … Continue reading The Wealth and Poverty of a Nation
The article below is a response to the first comment from Wallesmit on the last post entitled- The Myth of Trickle Down Economic Policies A second response to his second comment will be posted soon on this blog, please be on the watch out. Click this link- The Myth of Trickle Down Economic Policies to read Wallesmit's first comment in … Continue reading RE (I):The Myth of Trickle Down Economic Policies
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Recently I got into banter with someone over the composition of Nigeria’s GDP and the result is this blog post. Just to be clear, GDP is the market value of final goods and services produced within the boundaries of a country. Often, this is a composite of several sectors grouped for statistical purposes into Agriculture (defined as sum-total of Crop Production, Livestock, forestry and fishing), Industry, Services, Building & Construction, and Trade (i.e. wholesale and retail). The graph below plots the components of Nigeria’s GDP in the 5 decades since independence in 1960.
However the above raw figures are unclear and not much meaning can be gleaned from them so I express them in percentages below
From the above, agriculture appears to have given way to Industrial GDP in the 1980s and all seems well – right? Wrong exactly Industry is defined as sum-total of Crude oil/Natural gas, Mining activities and…
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We need to question how we reward value as a society. You cannot have so many billionaires and yet so much poverty and unemployment. What then have these billionaires created of value that serves to justify their wealth? Dr. Makanjuola, Resident Surgeon LUTH, Lagos, Nigeria image via mediafreedominternational.org The IMF, World Bank, … Continue reading The Myth of Trickle Down Economic Policies
