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Conflict In Nigeria

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For any nation to prosper in the information age requires substantial investment in, and development of human capital. A country’s stock of human resources, its quality and attitudes towards work goes a long way in determining a country’s state of economic growth and prosperity. In the course of Nigeria’s history , persistent violent civil violence has decimated and made redundant a substantial large portion of Nigeria’s human productive capacity. The main objective of this study is to study impact of violent conflict on human capital accumulation and economic development in the Central Region of Nigeria. A descriptive research method will be adopted for work. Data will be collected using stratified and systematic sampling technique and analyzed. …show more content…

Artadi and Sala-i-Martin (2003) have identified that too many military conflicts, low levels of education poor health, among other factors as significant factors mitigating economic growth in Africa. This is substantiated by Polachek and Sevastianova (2010) who find that interstate conflict can decreases economic growth by .18 to 2.77 percentage points, while intrastate conflict decreases economic growth by .01 to .13 depending on severity of conflict. For a good part of 30 decades, war and violent conflict has been part and parcel of virtually seventy percent of all countries in sub-Saharan Africa. (Gleditsch et al. 2002). Nigeria has not been immune to this. The country and has been through numerous political, ethno-religious crisis and even survived a civil war. However, more worrying and compelling this study is the continuing violence that has rocked the middle belt region of the country in recent …show more content…

Since returning to democratic governance in 1999, one of the greatest threat to the unity of the Nigerian Nation has been spate of violent internal crisis which has greatly stunted economic growth. The immediate effects of the violence on the people is evident. People have been killed, displaced, property destroyed, schools closed down and people have been put out of productive actives in the affected areas. Human capacity building in the affected areas has been greatly undermined with serious immediate negative repercussions and more salient effects transcending into the future. Violent civil conflict creates uncertainty which can distort private investment decision, government policy and allocation of resources and education which will in the long run impede human capital accumulation and lower economic

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