Nigeria - Public and Private Electricity Provision as a Barrier to Manufacturing Competitiveness
High production costs in Nigeria result in large measure from poor public provision of electricity. This requires 97 percent of firms to depend on privately-provided power for 67 percent of the time to generate electricity costing 2.42 times more t...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/12/2082423/nigeria-public-private-electricity-provision-barrier-manufacturing-competitiveness-public-private-electricity-provision-barrier-manufacturing-competitiveness http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9746 |
| Summary: | High production costs in Nigeria result
in large measure from poor public provision of electricity.
This requires 97 percent of firms to depend on
privately-provided power for 67 percent of the time to
generate electricity costing 2.42 times more than would have
been paid with reliable public provision. This clearly puts
Nigerian firms at a competitive disadvantage compared with
Ghanaian, let alone Asian firms. Nigerian firms are right to
consider infrastructure, particularly the cost of
electricity, as their biggest business problem. |
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