Proceedings of the 3rd (Hybrid) International Conference, Faculty of Social Sciences, Niger Delta University, Held on June 4, 2025
SOCIAL SCIENCES PERSPECTIVES IN DEVELOPMENT PLANNING IN POST-SUBSIDY REGIMES
BARR. YOUNG M. AYOTAMUNO
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This keynote address on Social Sciences Perspectives in Development Planning in Post-Subsidy Regimes seeks to analytically x-ray the use of various social science tools and perspectives in understanding development planning in comparative subsidy benefiting nations in Africa and beyond; and would further interrogate subsidy within the historical context of Nigeria’s experience with a view to establishing the fallacies, myths and realities unleashed by the embrace of subsidy and its removal on the country’s development dynamics