Mining In Nigeria and its Implication on the Right of a Child
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2017-01
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Faculty of Law, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria
Abstract
Globalization, both as a concept and process is very central to the development of nation-states
in the contemporary international system having promoted massive movement of fund, goods and
services across the globe from where states benefit. However, globalization has different effects on the
participating states by giving economic security and financial prosperity to those who are able to
compete favorably in the process while impoverishing other countries that are less competitive. This
paper appraised the impact of globalization on the socio-economic development of African countries.
Findings of the study, which was anchored on secondary data, were that globalization has lifted many
African countries from shackle of absolute poverty and positively enhanced their efforts at achieving
sustainable development. Conversely, the process has undermined development efforts in Africa due to
many factors that included unjust global trade rules, weak technical know-how and dilapidated social
infrastructure. It is concluded that though globalization has relatively enhanced the economic security of
some African states that have the capacity to compete in the process, the development process in many
African countries are largely threatened by stunted growth, protracted civil war and economic
insecurity. In spite of its huge marginalization from the globalization process, Africa should not delink
from the process because no nation can escape from it; especially within the contemporary Uni-polar
neo-liberal world order that has inescapably coerced developing countries into the Globalization
process. Africa should fix her dilapidated infrastructure and seek mutually rewarding trade relations
with her development partners to guarantee sustainable development within the globalization process.
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Mining, Human Rights, Children, Communities, Nigeria