LEADER 05512nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910454928903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-01258-4 010 $a9786612012587 010 $a0-8213-7797-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000793463 035 $a(EBL)459525 035 $a(OCoLC)466448445 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000085453 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11116262 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085453 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10025176 035 $a(PQKB)10779955 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC459525 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL459525 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10369803 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL201258 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000793463 100 $a20081124d2009 uf 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn assessment of the investment climate in Nigeria$b[electronic resource] /$fGiuseppe Iarossi, Peter Mousley, and Ismail Radwan 210 $aWashington, DC $cWorld Bank$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (146 p.) 225 1 $aDirections in development. Private sector development 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8213-7811-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 105-106) and index. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""Gender Differences in Investment Climate Constraints""""Gender Differences in Productivity""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 7 Conclusionsa???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 Nigeriaa???Low Labor Productivity and High Unit Labor Costs""; ""2 Value Added per Worker by Managerial Performance"" 327 $a""3 Productivity Differentials Due to Good Management Performance in Strong and Weak State Environments""""4 Indirect Costs as Percentage of Total Salesa???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"" 327 $a""1.5 Capacity Utilization in Selected Countries"" 330 $aNigeria has a clear vision of where it wants to be. The country??s vision 2020 expresses a bold desire to be among the top twenty economies by the year 2020. The economy has posted impressive growth figures since 2003 driven by higher oil prices and a series of home-grown, economic reforms. The country is now firmly on the road to middle-income status. But what else do government and the private sector need to do to create the jobs and growth that will underpin the national development strategy? What are the challenges that Nigeria??s businesses face today? What can government do to promote jo 410 0$aDirections in development (Washington, D.C.).$pPrivate sector development. 606 $aInvestments$zNigeria 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInvestments 676 $a330.9669 700 $aIarossi$b Giuseppe$0918318 701 $aMousley$b Peter$f1956-$0901908 701 $aRadwan$b Ismail$0969966 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454928903321 996 $aAn assessment of the investment climate in Nigeria$92204841 997 $aUNINA