CONTEXTUALIZING NEEDS

Sam Amadi & Frances Ogwo (eds.):
Contextualizing NEEDS. Economic / Political Reform in Nigeria
Lagos: The Human Rights Law Services (Hurilaws) & Centre for Public Policy & Research (CPPR) 2004.
ISBN 978-36705-0-6. (xix+74 pp.)

From the Foreword: "This report is a result of a dialogue and analysis carried out by a number of people on the National Economic Empowerment & Development Strategy (NEEDS), Nigeria's current medium-term economic reform agenda, initiated by the Obasanjo-led government.
This publication, a collection of critical essays on economic reform in Nigeria, especially with respects to NEEDS, is one of the many forms of engagement with economic policy-making in the context of human rights that the two groups are making. We hope that the publication will help to stimulate debate and public participation in economic policy design and implementation. Above all, we hope that the architects and managers of NEEDS will consider some of the issues raised by the authors and improve the quality of the policy design and management, especially as regards social and economic welfare of ordinary Nigerians."

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial Note

Summary of Dialogue of Proceedings
- Stanley Ibe

Reforming the Rentier State: Some Thoughts on NEEDS
- Dr. Axel Harneit-Sievers

Contextualizing NEEDS: Political and Economic Development.
- Dr. Sam Amadi

Privatization without Reforming: the Case of Nigeria
- Dr. Sam Amadi

Deregulation as Politics
- Dr. Sam Amadi

NEEDS: Building on four pillars
- Hilary Ogbonna

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