The Nigerian economy grew by 2.31 percent in the first quarter of 2023, according to a report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released in May 2023. However, compared to the fourth quarter’s GDP growth, which was 3.52 percent, this represents a fall of 1.21 percentage points. Compared to the first quarter’s economic growth of 3.11 percent the year before, GDP growth decreased by 0.80 percentage points annually.
June 6, 2023
Nigeria Economic Update (Issue 20)
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Nigeria Economic Review (First Half Report 2015)
The modest growth in the
global output witnessed in the first quarter of 2015 was driven mainly by
advanced economies, particularly the United States. Growth slowed down significantly
in emerging and developing economies, primarily natural resource-dependent
countries which were adversely affected by falling commodity prices.
Nigeria Economic Update (Issue 39)
Nigerias
external reserve fell marginally by from $25.36 billion to $25.16 billion.
The decline likely reflects the continued sales of dollar by CBN amid fall in
oil revenue. Similarly, the naira/dollar exchange rate depreciated marginally
by 0.5 percent to N424/$ at the parallel segmentas also seen in
preceding weeks. The continued depreciation likely points to banks low level
compliance to CBNs dollar sales directive made in August, 2016,
thus creating artificial dollar scarcity in the parallel market.