El desafío de la pobreza en África: Cooperativismo innovador a través de incentivos políticos. Un estudio de caso de Nigeria - Núm. 116, Abril 2020 - Revista Cooperativismo & Desarrollo - Libros y Revistas - VLEX 844665589

El desafío de la pobreza en África: Cooperativismo innovador a través de incentivos políticos. Un estudio de caso de Nigeria

AutorAjibola Anthony Akanji
CargoDepartment of Politics and International Relations, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria
Páginas1-22
Cooperativismo & Desarrollo
Artículo de investigación. https://doi.org/10.16925/2382-4220.2020.01.01
1 Department of Politics and International Relations, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria
E-mail: akanjiajibola16@yahoo.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6077-7271
The Poverty Challenge
in Africa: Innovative
Cooperativism through
Political Incentives.
A Case Study of Nigeria
El desafío de la pobreza en África: Cooperativismo innovador a
través de incentivos políticos. Un estudio de caso de Nigeria
O desafio da pobreza na África: Cooperativismo inovador através de
incentivos políticos. Um estudo de caso nigeriano
Akanji, Ajibola Anthony1
Received: October 15th, 2018
Accepted: November 29th, 2019
Available: January 31th, 2020
How to cite this article:
Akanji, A. A. (2020). The Poverty Challenge in Africa: Innovative Cooperativism through
Political Incentives. A Case Study of Nigeria. Cooperativismo & Desarrollo, 28(116), 1-22.
doi: https://doi.org/10.16925/2382-4220.2020.01.01
2The Poverty Challenge in Africa: Innovative Cooperativism through Political Incentives. A Case Study of Nigeria
Cooperativismo & Desarrollo e-ISSN 2382-4220 / Vol. 28, no. 116 / 2020 / Bogotá D.C., Colombia
Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
Abstract
This work, with the use of Nigeria as a case study, seeks to highlight a mode of redirecting Africa’s resources
in solving the problem of poverty currently experienced by the continent. It focuses on the restructuring of
humans and rechanneling of material resources. Using descriptive analysis as the method of research, it exa-
mines relevant data and attempts to make two fundamental and justiable claims.
The rst claim is that “innovative cooperativism”, a uniquely developed form of economic socialization of the
people in the form of collective self-help, built around the ideas of cooperation, cooperatives and solidarity eco-
nomics, should be at the centre of breaking the enduring circle of African poverty; a strand of poverty which has
often shown resistance to development. Although innovative cooperativism is a viable concept in addressing
the poverty challenge and mobilisation for development, the concept is yet to be embraced by a signicant sec-
tion of Nigerian people, cooperatives, mutual and self-help groups due to the absence of political incentives.
The second claim responds to the rst by proposing that the three tiers of the Nigerian government should
ensure a policy of benevolent but strict and disciplined welfarism in the form of political incentives to its de-
velopment drives, anchored onto innovative cooperativism. Thus, contemporary poverty challenges in Nigeria
are addressed through a system of standardised political incentives to the responsive mode of self-help on
the part of the people, creating an effective synergy of government and people, thereby combating poverty at
its very roots.
Therefore, a discursive attempt is made at achieving better development outcomes by rst reducing pettiness
and poverty through innovative cooperativism, fuelled by political incentives such as low interest loans, grants,
free or subsidized training, concessionaires etc. A consensus on the part of government and people on policy
and actions built on the philosophy of innovative cooperativism, supported by political incentives, is identied
as an imperative to addressing the Nigerian poverty challenge and achieving better development outcomes.
Thus, an efcient contemporary model is proposed for the economic and social development of Nigeria and
Africa at large.
Keywords: Economic development, Innovative cooperativism, Nigerian poverty, Political Incentives
P13 Empresas cooperativas
P46 Otros sistemas económicos: economía del consumidor; Salud; Educación y entrenamiento; Bienestar,
ingresos, riqueza y pobreza
O35 Innovación social
Resumen
En este artículo se investiga a Nigeria como estudio de caso, y busca resaltar un modo de redirigir los recursos
de África para resolver el problema de la pobreza que actualmente experimenta el continente. Se centra en la
reestructuración de recursos humanos y canalización de recursos materiales. Usando el análisis descriptivo
como método de investigación, examina datos relevantes e intenta hacer dos armaciones fundamentales y
justicables.
La primera armación es que el “cooperativismo innovador”, es una forma de socialización económica desa-
rrollada entre personas en forma de autoayuda colectiva, construidas alrededor de las ideas de cooperación,
cooperativas y economía solidaria, debería estar en el centro de romper el círculo duradero de la pobreza
africana; un hilo de pobreza que tiene a menudo se muestra resistencia al desarrollo. Aunque el cooperativismo
innovador es un concepto viable para abordar El desafío de la pobreza y la movilización para el desarrollo, el
concepto aún no ha sido aceptado por una sección signicativa del pueblo nigeriano, cooperativas, grupos
mutuos y de autoayuda debido a la ausencia de incentivos políticos.
El segundo reclamo responde al proponer que los tres niveles del gobierno nigeriano deberían garantizar una
política de bienestar benevolente pero estricto y disciplinado en forma de incentivos políticos para su desa-

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