Agricultural Value Added, Governance and Insecurity in Nigeria: An Empirical Analysis

Related to Agricultural Research, Distribution of Income and Agricultural Value Added

Agricultural Research is one of the most important factors in agricultural development, thus, the role and importance of research is increasing. Within the past years, all developed and consequently developing countries have engaged their most attention to promote their researches indexes. This study is investigating the effect of agricultural research on the distribution of income and agricult...

Sensemaking, Entrepreneurship and Agricultural Value- Added Businesses

Agricultural producers have been experiencing significant income pressures, leading to a search for alternative sources of income. One of such is value-added agricultural businesses that allow the farmers to stay on the farm and undertake entrepreneurial ventures to improve their finances. How do farmers make sense of their environment as they consider their options for value-added business ven...

Marketing for the Value-Added Agricultural Enterprise

Governance Crisis in Nigeria: an Empirical Analysis of Co-production as Panacea for Service Delivery

In the wake of independence of Nigeria in 1960, hopes and expectations were high that the project Nigeria was on the threshold of good governance. However, within a few years, the high hopes and lofty expectations of independence were dashed and frustrated resulting in governance crisis which manifested in several ways including civil war, large scale corruption, prolonged military rule, poor s...

Exit as Governance: An Empirical Analysis

Recent theory posits a new corporate governance channel available to blockholders: the threat of exit. Threats, however, are distinct from actual exits and thus difficult to measure directly. This paper exploits financial crises as natural experiments that exogenously changed stock liquidity and thus the credibility of blockholder exit threats. During these crises, firms with larger blockholder...