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INTRODUCTION The conservation of biodiversity is one aspect of environment, which has recently received global attention. Biodiversity refers to the variety and variability among living organisms and the ecological complexes in which they occur (Board on Science and Technology for International Development (BOSTID), 2002. It is a term used to describe the degree of nature’s variety including both the number and frequency of ecosystems, species or genes in a given ...

ABSTRACT The study investigates relative impact of financial sector reforms on agricultural and manufacturing sector growth in Nigeria. To guide the study, Ordinary Least Square technique was adopted and Eviews 8.0 econometric software was utilized for the analysis. A time series quarterly data sourced from Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin 2009 and 2013 and it covered the period 1970-2013 was used for the analysis. After carrying out necessary pre- ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1    STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The Nigeria agricultural and cooperative bank (NACB) was established in 1973 to help in the development of country’s economy through providing agricultural aids as well as provide finance and assisting the formers and cooperative societies. The needs for financing some of these agricultural project brought about the establishment of the Nigeria agricultural and cooperatve bank (WAB) in 1973 which after inception marked ...

CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY By the time Nigeria became politically independent in October 1960,agriculture was the dominant sector of the economy, contributing about 70% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) employing about the same percentage of working population and accounting for about 90% of foreign exchange earnings and the federal government revenue (CBN, 2005). The early period of post-independence up until the mid-1970’s saw a rapid growth ...