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Adjusting State and Market in Nigeria: The Paradoxes of Orthodoxy

One of the first acts of the Babangida military administration on coming to power in a coup in August 1985, thanks in part to internal and external pressure (West Africa 1986: 1404; Diamond 1988: 23; Biersteker 1988: 1-54 and Chazan 1989: 333-334), was to declare its intention to simultaneously pursue programmes of political democratisation and economic adjustment in Nigeria. By the first few months of 1986, this statement of intent had been transformed into policy. The beginnings of a programme of transition to civilian democratic rule, involving a large measure of state repair in the search …