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Economic crisis and the coping strategies of indigenous automobile entrepreneurs in northern Nigeria, 1983-2014

The Nigerian economic crisis of the early 1980s and the stabilization policies that were introduced to contain it have triggered inflation in the country leading to deplorable socio-economic conditions.Automobile industry is one of many sectors of the country's economy that were negatively affected by the economic crisis.In response to the situation the indigenous automobile businessmen began to use new strategies to survive the downtrend in the automobile market.Apart from shifting to Second-hand automobile trade, the businessmen have also introduced new marketing strategies such as kakara (t…