Economic Planning And Management In Nigeria: A Comparative Analysis Of Sap And Needs (#34617)

ABSTRACT

The study is a comparative analysis of SAP and NEEDS in economic

planning and management in Nigeria. It seeks to understand if there is any

relationship between SAD and NEED in economic planning and

management and the prospect that NEEDS will succeed were SAP failed.

Documentary data sources of textbooks, journals, newspapers and

magazines among other secondary sources were used extensively in the

study. Anchoring analysis on the depending theory, the study noted that

NEEDS is an oil wine in a new wine skin. That is to say that the fundamental

assumptions, strategies and principles of SAP are all embedded or rather

replicated in NEEDS. The study also revealed that there is no possibility

that NEEDS will succeed were SAP failed since external finding, corruption

and the lack of recognition of social realities of Nigeria state are the man

kinds of NEEDS. Hence, for NEEDS to succeed, good governance and the

recognition that economic planning and management is for the poor must be

made to be imperative.