TY - BOOK ED - SPA Basic Needs Mission ED - International Labour Office, Jobs and Skills Programme for Africa. TI - First things first: meeting the basic needs of the people of Nigeria : report to the Government of Nigeria SN - 9221026825 : AV - HC1055 .F57 1981 U1 - 338.9669 PY - 1981/// CY - Addis Ababa PB - International Labour Office, Jobs and Skills Programme for Africa KW - Economic policy KW - Social conditions KW - Social policy KW - Economic history KW - Nigeria N1 - Report to the Government of Nigeria by JASPA Basic Needs Mission; Includes bibliographical footnotes N2 - The report recommends a restructuring of government policies to make growth as broad based as possible to meet the basic needs of the Nigerian people. The authors opined that emphasis should be placed on social rather than economic outlays on rural rather than urban areas, on maintenance of existing projects rather than new projects, and on projects utilising labour rather than scarce resources ER -