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Nigeria’s Ease of Doing Business Ranking: Behind the Numbers
On 24th October 2019, the World Bank’s 2020 Ease of Doing Business report was released announcing that Nigeria has climbed 15-places up to 131 rank out of 190 countries globally.…
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Nigeria Education in Focus (Issue4)
Education is acknowledged largely as a significant tool because it equips students with the functional skills for decent living and generates human capital that can spur economic development. Education has…
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The Global South and development assistance
While cooperation between countries in the global South has existed since the 1955 Bandung Asian-African conference, South-South cooperation (SSC) has recently experienced rapid growth and rising global prominence. In 2013,…
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Future Energy Use in the Developing World: Implications for poverty reduction and climate goals
In view of the long-standing debate between green growth and de-growth, this analysis throws light on the dimensions of future energy use growth and its implication for development and climate…
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Chinese think tanks with Chinese characteristics: some lessons for African think tanks
Think tanks in China have drawn prominence in the global body of think tankers since the end of the Chinese closed-border policy era. By all accounts, the number of Chinese think…
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SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS OF NIGERIA’S WATER USE PATTERNS
Nigeria has significant renewable water resources; however, the current reality is that most of it is poorly utilized and managed, thus raising important sustainability questions. There are several concerns associated…
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Supporting Humanitarian Workers in North-Eastern Nigeria
North-eastern Nigeria, comprising of Borno, Taraba, Adamawa, Yobe, Gombe, and Bauchi states, has become the most uninhabitable region in the country due to series of Boko Haram attacks. Despite counterterrorism…
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Nigeria’s Electricity Challenges and Policy Bottlenecks
Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy and has one of the widest energy gaps in the world. To provide the necessary economic growth for its growing population, Nigeria urgently needs to…
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2019 Energy Policy Workshop
Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy, but also has one of the widest energy gaps in the world. With a quickly growing population, Nigeria urgently needs to improve its power sector.…
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Fostering Effective Tobacco Control Policy Implementation in Nigeria
It is widely known that cigarette smoking and other forms of tobacco use (both active and passive smoking) is damaging to health, poses enormous economic costs, and accounts for a…
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Nigeria’s New National Minimum Wage: Responses and Implications for the Economy
By Peace John On March 19, 2019, the new national minimum wage bill, an issue that featured widely in the 2019 presidential campaigns, finally received legislative approval. The Senate approved…
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Effects of 2019 Elections: Predicting the Economy’s Response in Nigeria
The stability of the country’s political environment is an essential element in determining and predicting the level of economic growth in a democratic economy. The traditional assumption in the political…
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Achieving Abundant and Affordable Energy in Africa: Is there a place for nuclear power in Nigeria?
Nigeria and Russia has signed agreements to set up four nuclear power plants and a Centre for Nuclear Science and Technology in Nigeria. This piece examines the prospects of nuclear…
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Energy Subsides in Nigeria: Opportunities and Challenges
Various forms of consumer energy subsidies[1] are implemented in Nigeria. Three energy products are particularly subsidized: gasoline (Premium Motor Spirit –PMS), household kerosene (HHK), and electricity. In the case of…
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CSEA hosts policy dialogue on Nigeria’s Tobacco Market and Policy Space
CSEA organized a policy dialogue on “A Scoping Study of Nigeria’s Tobacco Market and Policy Space” to share findings of the study to policymakers and the public, and also receive…
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Managing Africa’s Rising Debt: Time for a Multi-Pronged Approach
Debt sustainability in Africa has emerged as a key concern among policymakers and development finance institutions (DFIs). Currently, 19 out of 54 countries in Africa exceed the 60% debt-to-gross domestic…
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