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CPI Rebasing: Finding Plausible Reasons for Decrease in Inflation from 34.8% to 24.5%
(NILDS-Department of Economic and Social Research, 2024-02)Price level is a crucial macroeconomic variable that significantly influences household, firm, and government objectives. Monitoring the movement of prices within the economy is essential for effective fiscal and ... -
Rebasing Macroeconomic Variables: Of What Essence?
(NILDS-Department of Economic and Social Research, 2025-02)This issue brief considered the essence of rebasing some macroeconomic variables to examine the rationale for such exercise. The brief simply defines rebasing as replacing an outdated base year with a more recent one to ... -
The proposed 2024 Tax reform bill and the Rising Economic Pressures on the Survival of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria: A Need for Legislative intervention
(NILDS-Department of Economic and Social Research, 2024-11)The current proposed 2024 tax bill has planned on raising the Value Added Tax (VAT) from 7.5% to 10% in 2025. This increase is projected to adversely affect the growth and performance of an already weak Small and Medium ... -
Insecurity and Anambra State Gubernatorial Election: Areas for Legislative Intervention
(NILDS-Department of Economic and Social Research, 2025-01)Violence in Anambra state has significantly increased in recent years, threatening the state's democratic process through kidnappings, armed robberies, and politically motivated attacks. The governorship election of Anambra ... -
Moving the Nigeria’s economy from a mono stance towards a robustly diversified type – Lessons from Brazil and China Experiences?
(NILDS-Department of Economic and Social Research, 2024-02)The need to diversify the Nigerian economy has now become more urgent than ever before. Against this backdrop, this brief examines Nigeria diversification drive with a view to drawing lessons from Brazil and China Experiences. ... -
Inefficiencies in PMS Transportation: The Urgent Need for Downstream Pipeline Infrastructure Overhaul
(NILDS-Department of Economic and Social Research, 2025-02)The ongoing dependence on road transport for PMS distribution has resulted in inefficiencies, such as frequent fuel shortages, wastage of resources, loss of lives, and elevated transportation costs. To mitigate these ... -
Inclusion of “Illegal Activities” in the Re-basing of Nigeria’s GDP: Issues for Consideration
(NILDS-Department of Economics and Social Research, 2025-02)• The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is re-basing the GDP to reflect current economic realities. The GDP was last rebased in 2014 using 2010 as the base year. • In addition to including new areas like digital economy, ... -
Alternative Source of Revenue and Need to Develop Chemical Industry/Sector: Issue for Legislative Attention
(NILDS-Department of Economic and Social Research, 2024-03)Globally, chemical industry has been playing crucial role that have revolutionized many important aspects of human well-being. Likewise, the development of chemical industry has had a significant economic impact, not ... -
Insecurity and Food Security in Nigeria: Areas for Legislative Intervention
(NILDS-Department of Economic and Social Research, 2024-03)The intersection of insecurity, food scarcity, and food inflation in Nigeria presents a complex and challenging scenario that significantly impacts the country's agricultural sector and overall food security. In recent ... -
Daytime Movement of Heavy-Duty Vehicles and Rate of Road Accidents in Nigeria: Areas for Legislative Intervention
(NILDS-Department of Economics and Social Research, 2024-11)The rising rate of road transport accidents in Nigeria has been a major concern in the country. According to a 2024 data released by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on road traffic accident, there were 10,130 total ... -
Insecurity and Anambra State Gubernatorial Election: Areas for Legislative Intervention
(NILDS-Department of Economics and Social Research, 2025-01)Violence in Anambra state has significantly increased in recent years, threatening the state's democratic process through kidnappings, armed robberies, and politically motivated attacks. The governorship election of Anambra ... -
The proposed 2024 Tax reform bill and the Rising Economic Pressures on the Survival of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria: A Need for Legislative intervention
(NILDS-Department of Economics and Social Research, 2024-11)The current proposed 2024 tax bill has planned on raising the Value Added Tax (VAT) from 7.5% to 10% in 2025. This increase is projected to adversely affect the growth and performance of an already weak Small and Medium ... -
Addressing Inadequate Orthopedic Hospitals in Nigeria: Issues for National Assembly Consideration
(NILDS-Department of Economic and Social Research, 2021-09)Given a population size of over 210 million people, and the rising trends in injuries to bones, ligaments, and tendons, sustained by road accident victims, and insurgents’ attack victims, amongst others, the need for the ... -
What Does Global Data Say about a Country’s HDI, Its Fertility Rate and National Minimum Wage? Insight for Nigeria
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-07)Nigeria has one of the lowest national minimum wages hence the debate to revisit the national minimum wage is a welcome development. Whereas marginal productivity play a significant role in determining wage negotiation, ... -
The Potential Implications of the Eligible Customer Scheme in the Electricity Sector
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-09)Eligible Customer Scheme in the power sector declared by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing is aimed at ensuring that big industrial consumers buy electricity directly from GENCOs. This has implications for electricity ... -
The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) and the Domiciliation Debate in the National Assembly
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-02)In view of the threat by the Egmont Group, a 152-nation network of national financial intelligence units, to suspend Nigeria in 2018, the bill to grant financial and operational autonomy to the unit the Nigerian Financial ... -
Tackling Youth Unemployment: Need for a Coordinated Approach
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2019-04)Youth unemployment all over the world has attracted so much attention in many literature not only for the policy makers but also for the academia for young people are seen as the next generation of potentially productive ... -
Special Needs Education: Not a Priority in the 2019 Appropriation Bill
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2019-04)Persons With Disabilities (PWD) are among Nigeria’s most marginalized groups, resulting from socio-cultural norms and bias regarding disability as well as a lack of proactive government effort towards improving Special ... -
South Africa’s 2018Q1 Economic Recession Report: Lessons for Nigeria
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-09)For the first time since 2009 South Africa is experiencing a technical recession. The contractions have the poor performance of other emerging economies. 2. Others have noted that investment in manufacturing and development ... -
Scrutinizing the Capital Allocation to the Federal Ministry of Finance in the 2018 Appropriation Bill
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-02)The Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) articulates the Nigeria’s vision for the period-2020, and lays the foundation for long term growth. Among other things, it also articulates the strategy for aligning fiscal, ...
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