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During the mid and late 1980's, Nigeria experienced a prolonged and severe economic downturn. Nigeria suffered a rapid plummet of its foreign reserves from $10 billion in early 1980s to approximately $1 billion in the mid 1980s due to overvalued currency, inflated imports, and international decline of oil prices. [4]
The government was able to pay them until the economic downturn and an IMF-mandated structural adjustment program. Austerity measures which were imposed led to a downturn in funding of the educational sector. This led to significant student uprisings and a mass exodus of the expatriates as well as a net export of Nigerian skilled workers. [3]
South Africa was the first African country to fall in recession. Other countries like Morocco and Egypt , which benefited from their previous high economic growth experienced a great decline due to the global economic crisis without falling in recession.
A report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, led by health economist Amy Finkelstein, found mortality rates among Americans dropped 0.5% for every 1% jump in an area’s unemployment ...
The economy of Nigeria is a middle-income, mixed economy and emerging market [27] [28] with expanding manufacturing, financial, service, communications, technology, and entertainment sectors. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] It is ranked as the 53rd-largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP , the sixth largest in Africa and the 27th-largest in terms of ...
The worst post-war downturn was the Great Recession of 2008, but there is little likelihood that a potential recession in 2024 would approach that financial crisis in severity.
The End Bad Governance protests, widely known by the hashtags #EndBadGovernance or #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria, were a series of decentralized mass protests in Nigeria [7] that mainly occurred from 1 August to 10 August 2024, triggered by the rising cost of living in the country.
Typical diesel generator widely used in Nigeria due to lack of supply from the grid. The Nigerian energy supply crisis refers to the ongoing failure of the Nigerian power sector to provide adequate electricity supply to domestic households and industrial producers despite a rapidly growing economy, some of the world's largest deposits of coal, oil, and gas and the country's status as Africa's ...