Nigeria: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

March 11, 2003

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Nigeria: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix analyzes the key challenges facing Nigeria. The paper discusses issues and prospects in the oil and gas sector, provides basic information on the sector, and highlights the importance of strengthened governance. It describes the fiscal policy rules, which presents options for Nigeria based on the experience of other countries. The paper highlights that implementing a fiscal policy rule is identified as one possible way for Nigeria to stabilize public expenditures in the face of volatile oil prices.

Subject: Commodities, Fiscal policy, Fiscal rules, Oil, Oil prices, Oil, gas and mining taxes, Prices, Taxes

Keywords: Authorities awareness, CR, Debt service, Dependence of Nigeria, Federal government, Fiscal policy rule, Fiscal rules, Gas and mining taxes, Global, Government, ISCR, Nigeria, Oil, Oil prices, Oil revenue, Sub-Saharan Africa, Trade policy reform, West Africa

Publication Details

Pages:

162
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2003/060
Stock No:

1NGAEA0022003
ISBN:

9781451828931
ISSN:

1934-7685

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