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Like many of the other less developed countries, one of the major sources of growth in the Nigerian economy is foreign-oriented. With exports accounting for close to one-fifth of the Gross Domestic Product and imports representing about the same proportion, external trade since World War II has been of particular importance to the economy.
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G. K. Helleiner, Peasant Agriculture, Government and Economic Growth in Nigeria, (Homewood, Illinois: Irwin, 1966), p. 30.
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Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Lagos.
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Olaloku, F.A. The changing pattern of foreign trade. Intereconomics 10, 57–59 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929556
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929556