IBEKU ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS, 1960-1999

Abstract

This paper appraised Ibeku post-colonial economic institutions from 1960-1999, with special preference on agriculture, land tenure system, trade and marketing. Others included: transport and communication, manufacturing, institutions for capital formation, urbanization and migration. This paper employed eclectic method, explicitly historical method and ethnography. It also revealed that a thorough work has not been documented on Ibeku post-colonial economic institutions with reference to agriculture, land tenure system, trade and marketing, transportation and communication, institutions for capital formation, urbanization and migration. The study concluded that in 1960-1999 Ibeku economy experienced unprecedented growth in different ways. It collapsed in some areas, in some it was modernized while in some it witnessed transformations, growth and development.