ABSTRACT
One of the major economic backwardness of the most third world countries like Nigeria is the over prolonged sojourn of private foreign divestment in them. The predatory exploitative orientation and activities of foreign monopoly capital, it inherent tendency to resist and hamper local industrialization and to perpetuate merchant capitalism and its determination and deliberate efforts to retard the growth of endogamous entrepreneurship all this have heavily influenced Nigeria economic history for well over a century. This foreign dominance of commercial activities in Nigeria was made possible by restrictive practices employed by the established merchant firms. It is important to note that commercial banking is a major source of credit (capital) was solely owned and controlled by foreign elements. Their policies were made towards satisfying the needs of foreign enterprise, indigenous entrepreneurs merely subjected on the crumbs that fell on the gable. (Ezeigwe .J. O) Nigerian government in the 1950s operated mainly an open door policy which
attempted to live foreign investors into the country.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.2STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
1.3RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.4OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1.5SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1.6SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
1.7STATEMENT OF HYPOTHESIS
1.8DEFINITION OF TERMS
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
2.1INTRODUCTION
2.2BRIEF ON THE EMERGENCE OF INDIGENOUS COMPANIES IN NIGERIA
2.3CHALLENGES OF INDIGENOUS COMPANIES IN NIGERIA
2.5CURRENT INITIATIVES FOR IMPROVING THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT OF INDIGENOUS COMPANIES.
2.6IMPACT OF INDIGENOUS COMPANIES ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
2.7THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
2.8THEORETICAL BASES FOR THE STUDY
2.9 CHAPTER SUMMARY
REFERENCE
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1INTRODUCTION
3.2STUDY AREA
3.3RESEARCH DESIGN
3.4METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION
3.5METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS
3.6SAMPLE SIZE AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUE
3.7POPULATION OF THE STUDY
3.8PILOT STUDY
3.9 LIMITATIONS OF THE METHODOLOGY
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
4.0 INTRODUCTION
4.1DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
4.2TEST OF HYPOTHESIS
4.3MAJOR FINDINGS
4.4RESULT AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
5.2CONCLUSION
5.3RECOMMENDATIONS
5.4CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE
5.5SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX
SECTION A