An assessment of the investment climate in Nigeria [[electronic resource] /] / Giuseppe Iarossi, Peter Mousley, and Ismail Radwan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454928903321
• Autore: Iarossi Giuseppe
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-01258-4; 9786612012587; 0-8213-7797-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (146 p.)
• Collana: Directions in development. Private sector development
• Altri autori (Persone): MousleyPeter <1956->; RadwanIsmail
• Disciplina: 330.9669
• Soggetti: Investments - Nigeria; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-106) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contens""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Overview""; ""Chapter 1 Firm Productivity in Nigeria""; ""Manufacturing Productivity Has Declined in Recent Years""; ""Labor Cost and Labor Productivity in Nigeria""; ""International Comparison of Value Added per Worker""; ""Combining Labor Costs and Labor Productivity: Unit Labor Costs""; ""Productivity and Employment""; ""Linking Productive Efficiency to Allocative Efficiency""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 2 The Business Environment in Nigeria""; ""Indirect Costs of Doing Business in Nigeria Are High""; ""Electricity, Finance, and Transport Are the Major Perceived Constraints""""Electricity: The Main Bottleneck""; ""Transportation and Customs""; ""Taxes""; ""Access to Land""; ""Corruption and Crime""; ""Chapter 3 Comparing the State-Level Investment Climate""; ""Analysis of the Investment Climate in 11 Nigerian States""; ""Impact of Reforms""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 4 Access to Finance""; ""Access to Credit in Nigeria""; ""Nigerian Banking Practices""; ""Reasons for Loan Applications and Rejections""; ""How Nigeria's States Differ in Access to Finance""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 5 Entrepreneurship and Managerial Capacity in Nigerian Firms""""Defining Entrepreneurship""; ""Developing the Management ; Questionnaire for Nigeria""; ""Management Practices across Firms""; ""Management Practices and Investment Climate Constraints""; ""Implications for Productivity, Firm Performance, and Investment Climate""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 6 Other Aspects of the Investment Climate: Functioning of the Labor Market, Micro Enterprises, and Gender Differences""; ""Labor Market""; ""Micro Firms""; ""On Regulatory Burden""; ""Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria""; ""Gender Differences in Investment Climate Constraints""""Gender Differences in Productivity""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 7 Conclusionsâ€?Framing a Policy Response""; ""Next Steps""; ""References""; ""Appendix 1 Sample Composition""; ""Total Factor Productivity""; ""Total Factor Productivity and Employment""; ""Notes""; ""Appendix 2 Constructing a Composite Investment Climate Index""; ""Methodology""; ""Index Reliability""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""Figures""; ""1 Nigeriaâ€?Low Labor Productivity and High Unit Labor Costs""; ""2 Value Added per Worker by Managerial Performance""; ""3 Productivity Differentials Due to Good Management Performance in Strong and Weak State Environments""""4 Indirect Costs as Percentage of Total Salesâ€?International Comparison""; ""5 Share of Firms Ranking Electricity as One of the Top Three Constraints""; ""6 Access to Finance""; ""7 Typical Charge for a 40-Foot Export and Import Container""; ""8 Investment Climate Index in 11 Nigerian States""; ""1.1 Annual Labor Cost (LC) for Skilled and Unskilled Workers""; ""1.2 Productivity by Sector""; ""1.3 Value Added per Worker by State""; ""1.4 Value Added per Worker by Country and Size""; ""1.5 Capacity Utilization in Selected Countries""
• Sommario/riassunto: Nigeria has a clear vision of where it wants to be. The country??s vision 2020 expresses a bold desire to be among the top twenty economies by the year 2020. The economy has posted impressive growth figures since 2003 driven by higher oil prices and a series of home-grown, economic reforms. The country is now firmly on the road to middle-income status. But what else do government and the private sector need to do to create the jobs and growth that will underpin the national development strategy? What are the challenges that Nigeria??s businesses face today? What can government do to promote jo