Constraints to development in a newly created State: the Kwara phenomenon, 1967-1979

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Title:	Constraints to development in a newly created State: the Kwara phenomenon, 1967-1979
Author:	Agboola, C.O.O.
Year:	2000
Periodical:	The Nigerian Journal of Economic History
Issue:	3
Pages:	60-73
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	regional development federalism
Abstract:	The creation in 1967 of Kwara State from the former Northern Region of Nigeria no doubt brought government closer to the people. However, expectations of a reasonable level, spread and pace of socioeconomic development and an amelioration of living conditions have, several decades after the State's inception, not been fulfilled. Internal constraints to development include the very low base of internally generated revenue, the virtual absence of socioeconomic and infrastructural facilities at takeoff, unsound planning strategies and inconsistencies in plan priorities and implementation, and the problem of effecting political integration among the State's diverse ethnic groupings. The major external constraint to development is the State's crippling financial situation, a legacy of the relative poverty of the area and the relatively insignificant share of federal subventions which the State is allocated. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]