SECRETS OF SUCCESS UNCERTAINTY, PROFITS AND PROSPERITY IN THE GARI ECONOMY OF IBADAN, 1992-94.

From: Africa | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: Wan, Mimi Y. | Copyright information

Over the last fifteen years the gari supply system for the great urban centres of south-western Nigeria (Lagos, Ibadan, Abeokuta and many smaller towns) has been constituted and refined into a major sector of the urban food market. Its growth has been very substantially the work of the producers, traders, transporters, retailers and consumers. Before the decline in the value of the Nigerian currency began in 1986, and before President Babangida embarked on populist rural development...

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