IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON NIGERIAN INDUSTRIES: A STUDY OF LEATHER FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY IN KANO 1980-2004
IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON NIGERIAN INDUSTRIES: A STUDY OF LEATHER FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY IN KANO 1980-2004
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2006-07
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ZAINAWA, ABDULLAHI YAHUZA
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
My profound gratitude goes to my supervisor Dr. Umar Mohammed
Ka’oje who painstakingly read through the work thoroughly and
diligently up to its conclusive end.
Worthy of mention here are lecturers in the department of Political
Science Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria like Dr. P.P Izah, Dr. Kayode
Omojuwa, Professor Ayo Dunmoye, Dr. E.A. Unobe, Dr. Yusufu
Yakubu etc. who have directly or indirectly contributed to the success
of this work.
I am gratefully indebted to every member of my family especially my
wife Sa’adatu Abdullahi for her love, patience, concern, and
understanding throughout this course of study.
Finally, I wish to extend my profound gratitude to my friends Adamu
Ahmed Umar, Kabiru Nuhu Danliman and Shu’aibu A. Hamdullahi for
their moral support and encouragement during the course of my
study.
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ABSTRACT
This study “Impact of Globalization on Nigerian Industries: A case study of
leather footwear Industry in Kano State from 1980-2004” set out to examine the
effects and implications of globalization on leather footwear industry in Kano
State. The data used for this research were drawn from both primary and
secondary sources.
The study found that globalization has inflicted devastating consequences on
leather footwear industry in Kano. This is because as a result of globalization
footwear products from advanced countries, which are better in terms of quality
and relatively cheaper, are imported to Nigeria. These products enter Nigeria at
the expense of the survival of Nigerian leather footwear industry due to
liberalization and sometime smuggling. Thus, manufacturers of leather footwear
in Nigeria lost market and the industries have gone distressed or closed.
Globalization increased the dependence on imported products. As a result
Nigeria’s industrial production fell thereby making it perpetually dependent and
underdeveloped. Also, phenomenon of globalization compounded the menace of
unemployment in Nigeria. This is because virtually all workers of leather footwear
industry in Kano were laid off due to the inability of the locally produced
footwear to compete with foreign manufactured or smuggled ones. Hence, living
standard fell with increasing poverty. In a nutshell, this study found that
globalization resulted in closures of industries, under capacity production,
unemployment, stagnation, and backwardness in advancement of Local
industries and dependence on imported leather footwear products from
industrialized countries.
This study, recommends that government should regulate massive importation
and smuggling of footwear from other countries so that leather footwear
manufacturers can have market for their products. Government should also
patronize leather footwear products made in Nigeria by placing orders for boots
and shoes used by Army, Police and other uniformed security agents. In
addition, government should fund research and establish institutions that will aid
manufacturers in designing, styling and marketing to conform with latest
standards. Furthermore, the quality of leather used in the production of footwear
in Nigeria should be enhance so as to improve the quality of the products and to
revive the collapsing leather footwear industry in Kano. There is also the need
for governments to provide soft loan for purchase of modern plant and
machinery as well as working capital.
Description
Being a Thesis Submitted to the Postgraduate School
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
Keywords
IMPACT,, GLOBALIZATION,, NIGERIAN,, INDUSTRIES,, STUDY,, LEATHER,, FOOTWEAR,, INDUSTRY, KANO