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Nigeria Economic Update, Fall 2019 : Jumpstarting Inclusive Growth - Unlocking the Productive Potential of Nigeria's People and Resource Endowments
World Bank Group - 2019
Nigeria continues its rec ... …
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Nigeria on the Move : A Journey to Inclusive Growth
World Bank Group - 2020
Frequently referred to as the Giant of Africa, Nigeria is growing slower than its population and large numbers of … people are poor. With gross national income per capita of USD 2,100 (in 2017; Atlas method, WDI), Nigeria is classified as a … 42.8 percent of Nigeria's population was living in extreme poverty in 2016. Poverty has been rising in rural areas and in …
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Natural Resources, Institutions, and Economic Growth : The Case of Nigeria
Raggl, Anna K. - 2017
drivers of growth in Nigeria, and to predict growth rates of gross domestic product per capita for the country under different … natural resource rents are estimated to be particular important ingredients for a prosperous economic development in Nigeria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245930
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
Mc Millan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries-Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246181
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The Credit Crunch : How the Use of Movable Collateral and Credit Reporting Can Help Finance Inclusive Economic Growth in Nigeria
Central Bank of Nigeria - 2017
Nigeria is an entrepreneurial economy with an estimated thirty seven million Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises … expand their operations. To improve access to finance and promote inclusive economic growth, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN … supporting the development of a modern credit reporting system in Nigeria. This new financial infrastructure will allow for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248256
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Do Trading Partners Still Matter for Nigeria's Growth? A Contribution to the Debate on Decoupling and Spillovers
Obiora, Kingsley I. - 2009
these questions for Nigeria in the context of the global crisis. The results seem to debunk the ""decoupling theory"" and … suggest there are still significant spillovers from Nigeria's main trading partners, including the US, with trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677490
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Financial Globalization; A Reappraisal
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar; Rogoff, Kenneth; Wei, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels and with a variety of apparently conflicting results. For instance, there is still little robust evidence of the growth benefits of broad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263828
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Surges
Qureshi, Mahvash Saeed; Ghosh, Atish R.; Zalduendo, Juan; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper examines why surges in capital flows to emerging market economies (EMEs) occur, and what determines the allocation of capital across countries during such surge episodes. We use two different methodologies to identify surges in EMEs over 1980-2009, differentiating between those mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650614
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Sudden Stops and Currency Drops; A Historical Look
Catão, Luis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper shows that recent manifestations of sudden stops (SSs) in international capital flows have striking parallels in the early financial globalization era preceding World War I. All main capital-importing countries then faced episodic capital flow reversals averaging some 5 percent of GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605128
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Uncertainty in ex-ante poverty and income distribution : insights from output growth and natural resource country typologies
Mendez Ramos, Fabian - 2019
This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries over 1980-2014. The findings suggest that global extreme poverty will decrease in absolute and relative terms in the period 2015-2030. However, absolute poverty is likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022359