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MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS) AS INSTRUMENTS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

Authors: OKATA Gift

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: Arabian Journal Of Business And Management Review

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The setting up of bench marks for attainment of advanced socio-economic development of our world by year 2015 is a welcome drive. This work concentrates on the challenges of relying on the use of language as a tool for socio-economic development, with particular emphasis on the use of legal language and the instrumentality of jurisprudence to advance the frontiers of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It undertakes conceptual clarifications of the framework of the topic itself and particularly traces the historical evolution of MDGs. In wider term, this paper traces past reliance on language for socioeconomic changes, especially in terms of social upheavals. Apart from taking a worldview of the use of language, it narrows down to select nations of the West African Sub-region, Nigeria and Ghana, anchoring on a comparative socio-economic development of these two ECOWAS member States. The paper winds up by taking a critical look at the reliance on legal language as a specific tool in the hands of lawmakers and legal draftsmen for advancing and in fact, exceeding MDGs and recommends that novel application of legal language, particularly directed at the attainment of specific developmental goals is a sine quanon for developmental success.

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OKATA,G. . (0000). MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS) AS INSTRUMENTS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA, 1 (), 1-1.

OKATA,G. . "MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS) AS INSTRUMENTS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA" 1, no (), (0000): 1-1.

OKATA,G. and . (0000). MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS) AS INSTRUMENTS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA, 1 (), pp1-1.

OKATAG, . MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS) AS INSTRUMENTS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA. 0000, 1 ():1-1.

OKATA,Gift , . "MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS) AS INSTRUMENTS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA", 1 . (0000) : 1-1.

O.Gift , "MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS) AS INSTRUMENTS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA" vol.1, no., pp. 1-1, 0000.

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