
Adejumo Opeyemi OluwabunmiObafemi Awolowo University | OAU · Institute for Entrepreneurship and Development Studies
Adejumo Opeyemi Oluwabunmi
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Introduction
Current research interest include Labour issues (human capital development), Sustainable Development, Public policy, Gender Mainstreaming and Entrepreneurship.
I currently employ time series, panel surveys and experimental designs in analysis
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Publications (45)
The learning and education crises in developing countries are often linked to diverse factors, including low teacher presence in schools, teachers' absenteeism, low utilisation of their skills, and available resources for teaching. We ask whether improving teachers' accountability in Nigeria might yield important learning gains for vulnerable child...
Risk and risk dynamics associated with economic activities have been largely relevant in explaining the susceptibility of economies to hazardous and disastrous conditions. This chapter discusses the interplay of the environment and economic activities that predisposes economies to hazardous conditions, as well as viable and plausible options to mit...
The effect of globalization on national economies remain a subject of empirical interest. Owing to the spillovers via globalization effects, a number of economies in the South Asian region have recorded phenomenal economic growth. However, the extent to which economic growth can influence development outcomes remains the issue of interest. Therefor...
Studies have noted the possibility of tax treaties constraining the tax policy autonomy of developing countries, while their impact on enterprise development within host economies remains an empirical issue. This study examines the effects and heterogeneous differences in estimated effects of tax treaties on small businesses in developing countries...
This paper relies on the 2008 and 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys and an instrumental variable estimation strategy to estimate the relationship between a Nigerian woman’s age at entry into her first and current marriage and entrepreneurship. The result suggests a 5-percentage point higher likelihood of engaging in entrepreneurship for w...
Gender budgets have been identified as pivotal to actualizing gender equality. The
embrace and utilization of this form of budget in African economies has been well
documented. Following Australia, South Africa was among the first to imbibe the
tenets of gender budgets in its fiscal administration, and this was followed by
other African economies l...
Entrepreneurship has been identified as a catalyst for creating opportunities and enhancing productivity. The Asian economy is one of the fastest growing economies and entrepreneurially inclined continents of the world, owing to the phenomenal strides of China’s economic activities. Despite these, the region is still characterized as developing in...
The study examines the dynamic interrelationships among the school enrolment rates and the rate of employment (via unemployment rates) in Nigeria. The study employed Autoregressive estimates and an unrestricted VAR approach to analyze these relationships. The study lends credence to the new-growth theory (i.e. endogenous models) that more investmen...
Climate change is a global problem, which affects the various geographical regions at different levels. It is also associated with a wide range of human health problems, which pose a burden to health systems, especially in regions such as Africa. Indeed, across the African continent public health systems are under severe pressure, partly due to the...
Purpose
The study examines the dynamic interrelationships among the school enrolment rates and the rate of employment (via unemployment rates) in Nigeria.
Design/methodology/approach
The study employed Autoregressive estimates and an unrestricted VAR approach to analyze these relationships.
Findings
The study lends credence to the new-growth theo...
The peculiarity of women in developing economies, through changing status (marriage, widowhood, divorce, separation) and in some cases occasioned by locational vicissitudes, have continually challenged the sustainability of women in the labour market. Again, some of these challenges women face via social structures such as patriarchy, customs and t...
The majority of households in the sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) region cook with solid fuel and other polluting fuels like kerosene, and women in this region spend more than 4 hr of their productive time in cooking activities with such energy sources. Such time input in cooking has a high cost on the labor market outcome of women. This study examines th...
The 21st century industrial and digital age has been largely driven by technological dynamics and advancement. The Neo-classical argued that beyond the classical notion of investments and capital accumulation, technology growth, which is driven by innovation and development is a major driver for growth and development. Africa economies, which has b...
Financing sustainable development in Africa requires financing options that is best for development in the region without further escalating other societal problems. This chapter takes stock of financing options previously advocated for financing development in the African region such as development assistance and foreign investment. By considering...
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Critical Thinking and Writing for Urban Studies Researchers in Nigeria
Since the collapse of the oil boom of the 1970s, there has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of poverty and unemployment in Nigeria. This arises in part from the dwindling performance of the agro-allied manufacturing sector where a properant majority of the poor are employed. This study examines the influence of socio-cultural factors on th...
The study was conducted to investigate the economics of dry season vegetable production in Ogun state, Nigeria. Descriptive statistics, budgetary technique and regression analysis model were used to analyze the data collected from 120 respondents using multi-stage sampling technique. Descriptive statistics showed that while the mean age of the farm...
In the school of development thought, growth has been identified as a viable alternative to the challenge of poverty and economic backwardness. However, the ecologists have continuously challenged the growth position in relation to environmental degradation and depletion. It is against this background; this study examined the limits to growth in Ni...
An increase in economic activities which leads to economic growth has been adduced as a possible factor for environmental degradation. While some other studies have argued that as economies keep growing, there are possibilities for resource redistribution which could engender environmental balance, thus engendering the argument on the conflicting-c...
Overtime, income level and level of industrialization are utilized in classifying economies as far as development is concerned. However, in these times where sustainable development is concerned, the level of industrialization may no longer suffice in categorizing countries. Indeed the level of greenness and the extent to which countries exacerbate...
Financing sustainable development in Africa requires financing options that is best for development in the region without further escalating other societal problems. This chapter takes stock of financing options previously advocated for financing development in the African region such as development assistance and foreign investment. By considering...
Studies have shown that despite the enormous business activities in Nigeria, family businesses appear fragile and less successive. This incessant discontinuation of family businesses often add to the already high business failure rates in the economy. Therefore, this study is conducted to find out the reasons why family businesses in Nigeria do not...
The Global Conference for Wikimedia and The Economist held in London, 2014, ranked Nigeria as the largest economy in Africa using the nominal gross domestic product. But, income redistribution, equality and productivity improvements, which are indicators for the development of an economy, remain at large. Against this background, the study is set t...
Creativity, a basic tool for innovation in any society, appears to have limited space
in the curricula of secondary schools in Nigeria. School activities are generally
oriented towards conformity to standards; this is inimical to creativity. There is a
need for schools to promote, what can be called a ‘growth of personality’ by
fostering the creati...
The ecosystem is designed to depict the interaction between the natural environment and the human economy. However, an increase in socioeconomic activities has resulted in the recent upheavals of pollution, environmental degradation, and climate change. Therefore, based on the concept of limits to growth and following the ecological theory of growt...
It is a threshold analysis of economic growth
Abstract This paper introduces entrepreneurship phases in studying the impact of some government policies on entrepreneurial activities. Entrepreneurship and small business development are the heart of many countries economy, and countries that give entrepreneurship special attention stand better chances of improved economy and industrialization. W...
This paper examined some personality factors that promote entrepreneurial activities across business sectors in emerging economies. Specifically, it identified the most crucial personality factor in each sector, and the most prominent in each economy. We proposed that by examining these factors across sectors, and in two emerging economies, persona...
In view of the increasing economic activities in Nigeria, the quest for quality environment has become a major thrust with regard to sustainable development. This explains why ensuring environmental quality remains is one of the cardinal components of the Sustainable Development Goals. Therefore, this study aims to ascertain if economic wealth gott...
As Nigeria’s population grows significantly, it is expected that progress in physical infrastructures and environmental resources are utilized at a pace that can support population growth. Since energy resources, their uses and environmental impact are critical to the process of economic development, any quest for sustainability requires appropriat...
A major development issue in Nigeria is unemployment, despite a plethora of economic policies to guide labour absorption and utilisation in the country. Some major reasons for this unemployment challenges have been hinged on the level of human capital development as well as other socio-economic issues. Using the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARD...
This paper is a comparative analysis of the peculiarities of entrepreneurial motives and challenges that exist in emerging economies. The paper also emphasizes the fact that knowing what entrepreneurs are up against would get them prepared and inexorably minimize the effects of the challenges. Research findings show that entrepreneurs set up busine...
In order to address the direction of causality between human capital and productivity growth in Nigeria, the study first investigated the pattern of productivity growth in Nigeria between 1970 and 2010. Following the endogenous growth model, which argued that technical progress, through an effective labor force, could lead to long-run growth which...
This article examines the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) in Nigeria over the period 1970–2009. Using error correction model (ECM), impulse-response functions and variance decompositions, the results show that in the long run, human capital, trade openness and inflation have a significant negative impact on TFP. However, foreign dir...
In recent time, the concept of sustainable development cannot be overemphasized. Sincethe early 1980s, the term ‘sustainable development’ has been used widely andindiscriminately. The term began to gain popularity, when it became increasinglyfashionable to use it as a way of responding to global environmental concerns, biophysicalissues, fairness,...
Human capital development is seen as a focal point for pivoting industrial development, for reducing the level of unemployment and increasing the supply of entrepreneurs in any economy. However, the effect of human capital on sustainable industrial development in Nigeria has not been adequately explored. In view of various policies adopted by succe...
The aim of this paper is to carry out an overview on the concept of elasticity in economics as well as to find out how well such notion can be applied to our everyday life. Besides, it is important to find out the effect a change in certain policy objective will shape or reshape on an individual, as well as an entire economy like Nigeria. Hence, th...