4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
5.1
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
Selected macroeconomic projections vis-à-vis actual (percentages)
The Quick National Employment Generation Survey, 2006
Gross domestic product at current prices (2001–2005)
Deployment of Technical Aid Corps volunteers, 1987–2004
Implementation of corporate governance standards and codes
Millennium Development Goal indicators
Gender disparities in school enrolments and literacy rates
Gender divisions in decision making (households)
Workforce gender disparities in federal and local
government civil service
6.5 Distribution of workers in occupational categories
6.6 Gender disparities by social status, 2004
152
157
158
201
210
280
310
310
310
311
311
BOXES
1.1 Innovations in the implementation of the
African Peer Review Mechanism in Nigeria
2.1 Notable achievements by Nigerians and persons of Nigerian origin
5.1 Trade unions in Nigeria
5.2 The Consumer Protection Councils
6.1 The evolution of development planning in Africa
6.2 How oil undermines economic diversification in Nigeria
6.3 The ‘resource curse’ and poverty in Nigeria
6.4 The Conditional Cash Transfer scheme
6.5 The decline of agriculture in oil-rich Nigeria
6.6 Special schools for married girls and young mothers in the north
6.7 Civil society organisations as go-betweens
35
62
232
246
271
272
278
278
279
290
316
GOOD AND BEST PRACTICES
2.1 Nigeria’s role in Africa
3.1 The Council of the State
3.2 Nigeria’s role in regional peacekeeping in the context
of the Economic Community of West African States
3.3 The Federal Character Principle
3.4 Declaration and publication of assets − a signal of
President Yar’Adua’s commitment to transparency
3.5 The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons
4.1 The due process mechanism in public procurement and contracting
4.2 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
4.3 The Technical Aid Corps scheme
5.1 The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
6.1 Gender affirmative action in Kebbi State
FIGURES
1.1
1.2
4.1
7.1
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African Peer Review Mechanism geographical coverage
Map of Nigeria – teams 1 and 2
Nigeria’s key economic indicators
Trends in the sectoral composition of Nigeria’s
gross domestic product (in percentages)
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87
88
108
114
129
190
195
204
234
313
27
40
163
330