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Migration and Governance in Africa

As the world gets smaller and economic competition is based more and more on creativity and technological innovation, the place that attracts the world’s best minds will have a distinct advantage. We are that place. If you walk the streets of Tokyo or Beijing, it is not difficult to distinguish native from tourist. If you walk the streets of New York or the malls of Los Angeles, good luck in trying to figure out who is home and who is not. America may not be a melting pot, since each immigrant group tries to retain an element of their identity, but in its own often imperfect way, it is a place that is built to encourage, accept, tolerate and even absorb diversity. A place with roots everywhere has a tremendous edge in a global economy. We can do business anywhere, and host workers from anyplace. We are also a place that allows individual freedom and creativity. Even if economies are growing faster in other places, freedom and tolerance of diversity will remain a key part of America’s appeal (Cohen, 2013). It may be safe to say that there are no places or territories where human communities sprouted (like seeds) from the ground. As such, all human communities everywhere (essentially) are the net results of migrant behaviors (ancient or contemporary). While some communities were made up of people who relocated in prehistoric times and could lay claim to being among the “original” settlers in particular places, many others resettled more recently (relatively) in areas already claimed or considered home by others. In essence, human movements have always been integral, historically, to quests by all human communities and nations for personal safety and communal security, development and prosperity. While people were largely........
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The Political Economy of Migration in Africa

At an estimated 250 million people, migrants make up about 3% of the global population. Clearly, migration is a common phenomenon among human beings who either choose to move or are forced to do so by natural disasters (such as drought, flooding, climate change, and environmental degradation) or human-inflicted factors (such as conflict or wars). Like a moth to a flame, human beings are drawn to environments that are conducive enough to offer them positive or satisfactory opportunities, particularly for economic gains, improved living conditions, personal safety, and professional development or growth. As with others, African migrants are often driven by such factors. Over the years, migration from Africa has been closely associated with exigent external and internal factors. For instance, as African economies shrink under severe global pressures or as natural disasters, bad governance, or conflict/war ensue, some Africans seek to exit from their countries in pursuit of greener pastures in neighboring countries (primarily) and, a lesser extent, beyond in Europe, North America and elsewhere. In essence then, there is a clear and compelling evidence that human mobility and migration are often closely associated with prospects for ample opportunities and huge benefits.
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AfriHeritage Latest Publication: Now Available!

The African Heritage Institution is pleased to announce the addition of a new title to its stable of intellectual resource materials – Separatist Agitation and Peacebuilding: Challenge of National Integration in Nigeria. The book which is principally a fall-out of a conference hosted in 2017 by AfriHeritage with the theme: Peace Building and National Integration in Nigeria: The Political Economy of Separatism. Given the success of that conference in terms of the quality of papers presented, AfriHeritage decided to take it further by publishing some of the best papers presented at the conference.

The book takes a look and analyzes the cacophony of voices of agitations for self-determination, resource control, true federalism, etc. of the various nations/interest groups within the Nigerian polity in recent times. As an advocate for good governance policy, it goes ahead to proffer solutions on how these restless quests for separatism can be harnessed towards development, nation-building and a peaceful co-existence.

Edited by a team of seasoned academics of no mean intellectual repute led by Ufo Okeke-Uzodike, a professor of International Relations and Political Economy. The book is engaging, intellectually sound and provides a clear historical insight into a full grasp of some of the contemporary challenges bedeviling the Nigerian society, and by necessary implication, the African region. The book is an excellent resource material and a valuable intellectual asset to policy actors, media practitioners, researchers, scholars and students in the areas of Peace and Conflict studies, development studies, Political Science, Social and Cultural Studies, etc. It is certainly a must read. Get your copy today, call:

Business Environment and Competitiveness across Nigerian States III 2016 Report Business Environment in Nigerian States 2010 -Tackling the Security Challenge: This book is the second in the research publication series under the Business Environment and Competitiveness across Nigerian States (BECANS) programme. The central theme of this publication –Tackling the Security Challenge– reflects BECANS II research evidence which shows that overall, the business environment deteriorated between 2007 and 2010 due largely to increased insecurity.The BECANS initiative is the first ever research-based business environment benchmarking across Nigerian States. The overall goal is to promote evidence-based reforms of the business environment in Nigeria, with focus on the sub-national jurisdictions

The Global Economic Crisis and Nigeria: Taking the Right Lessons, Avoiding the Wrong Lessons; This book is fruit of a National Policy Symposium - Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Taking the Right Lessons and Avoiding the Wrong Lessons, held in 2009, at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. The Symposium was an effort to give conceptual form and evidence-based perspective to the national public discourse on the global economic crisis and its implications for Nigeria’s economic planning and management. At the symposium it was seen clearly that the ideas and lessons canvassed there needed to be more widely disseminated in an enduring manner.

Promoting Nigeria's Non-Oil Private Sector

Promoting Nigeria’s Non-Oil Private Sector: Evidence and Recommendations: The book is the result of a reseach conducted under the auspices of the Better Business Initiative (BBI) between 2003 and 2005. The BBI – an evidence-based policy advocacy programme was an initiative of the African Heritage Institution (formerly African Institute for Applied Economices) in 2002 under the leadership of Prof Chukwuma Soludo, the then Executive Director. The initiative was an offshoot of the Inter-Agency Forum on Competitiveness and Private Sector Growth held in 2002 at Abuja. The forum was organised by the African Institute for Applied Economics (AIAE), Enugu, in collaboration with key government agencies such as Bureau for Public Enterprises – BPE, Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligency Unit (BMPI); private sector stakeholders with support from international development partners including the DFID, USAID, and World Bank.

The inadequate research inputs into economic policies, poor mechanisms for stakeholder engagement/dialogue and low level of private sector and civil society participation in policy process were identified as critical gaps undermining policy impact in Nigeria. The BBI under its five thematic areas pushed for the reactivation of the non-oil economy of Nigeria for sustainable economic transformation. The network worked with the Nigerian private sector and civil society organizations to promote evidence-based advocacy for policy and institutional reforms to remove bottlenecks to businesses in Nigeria.

The book brings together in a single volume, research-based evidences and policy recommendations, literature and analytical insights that can be utilized for stakeholder dialogue on economic policy reforms in Nigeria.
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