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During the 1970s there has been a growth in the role of the state and an assertion of economic nationalism throughout Africa. As in the rest of the developing world, most national states have increasingly taken on regulative, welfare and planning functions, and the state has become a major (if not the major) economic actor in many countries [1]. At the same time, policies of economic nationalism (nationalisation and indigenisation) have become widespread in Africa and most host-countries have levied increasingly stringent regulations on the operations of foreign firms [2].
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Alfred Stepan, The State and Society: Peru in Comprative Perspective (Princeton University Press, 1978).
C. Fred Bergsten, Thomas Horst and Theodore H. Moran, American Multinationals and American Interests (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1978).
Robert Gilpin, U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation (New York: Basic Books, 1975).
Ankie Hoogvelt, ‘Indigenisation and Foreign Capital: Industrialisation in Nigeria’, Review of African Political Economy, 14, January–April 1979, pp. 56–68.
O. Aboyade, ‘Closing Remarks’ in Nigeria’s Indigenisation Policy, proceedings of the Symposium organised by the Nigerian Economic Society (University of Ibadan, 1974); P. C. Asiodu, ‘Closing Remarks’ in Nigeria’s Indigenisation Policy.
Paul Collins, ‘The Policy of Indigenisation: an Overall View’, Quarterly Journal of Administration, January 1975.
E. O. Akeredolu-Ale, ‘Private Foreign Investment and the Underdevelopment of Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Nigeria’ in Gavin Williams (ed.), Nigeria: Economy and Society (London: Rex Collings, 1976).
Terisa Turner, ‘MNCs and the Instability of the Nigerian State’, Review of African Political Economy, 5, January–April 1976, pp. 63–79;
Gavin Williams, ‘A Political Economy’ in Gavin Williams (ed.), Nigeria: Economy and Society (London: Rex Collings, 1976) pp. 11–54.
For example, Bergsten cites Nigeria’s indigenisation programme as an illustration of growing economic nationalism in the Third World; C. Fred Bergsten, ‘Coming Investment Wars?’, Foreign Affairs, 53 (1), October 1973, pp. 135–52. Evans devotes a section of his concluding chapter to apply his triple alliance ideas to Nigeria;
Peter Evans, Dependent Development: the Alliance of Multinational, State and Local Capital in Brazil (Princeton University Press, 1979) pp. 309–14. See also Chapter 1 in this book.
Although Nigerians have historically played an intermediary role in West African trade and commerce, it would be a mistake to suggest that their present approaches to transnational corporations simply reflect an inability or an unwillingness to play any other role today. See especially E. O. Akeredolu-Ale, The Underdevelopment of Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Nigeria (Ibadan University Press, 1975), and
Thomas J. Biersteker, Distortion or Development? Contending Perspectives on the Multinational Corporation (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1978) for examples of Nigerian capabilities in the performance of productive and non-intermediary functions in economic activities.
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Biersteker, T.J. (1983). Indigenisation in Nigeria: Renationalisation or Denationalisation?. In: Shaw, T.M., Aluko, O. (eds) Nigerian Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06301-7_7
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