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Poverty, oil and corruption: the need for a Quad-Sector Development Partnership (QSDP) in Nigeria's Niger Delta

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type="main" xml:id="dpr12164-abs-0001"> This article starts by charting the conflicting position in Nigeria's Niger Delta between its petroleum wealth and the poverty of its inhabitants before observing how government corruption has hampered development agencies from rectifying this situation. It then examines trans-national company (TNC) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives via a case study of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). It concludes that, while there are useful projects, their success is felt at a micro level that cannot supplant wider government development. Finally, the article sets out why Quad-Sector Development Partnerships (QSDP) between an international development agency, the state, TNCs and civil society will help to neutralise the national problem of corruption so that Niger-Delta socioeconomic development can be improved.

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  • Adrian Gonzalez, 2016. "Poverty, oil and corruption: the need for a Quad-Sector Development Partnership (QSDP) in Nigeria's Niger Delta," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 34(4), pages 509-538, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:devpol:v:34:y:2016:i:4:p:509-538
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    1. Ans Kolk & Miguel Rivera-Santos & Carlos RufĂ­n, 2018. "Multinationals, international business, and poverty: A cross-disciplinary research overview and conceptual framework," Journal of International Business Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 1(1), pages 92-115, June.

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