How Africa’s Biggest Economy Lost 50% of Its GDP

Explains Nigeria’s mid-2010s crisis and what could drive recovery in a resource-dependent economy.

Development & poverty trapsExplainerintermediatecorruptioneconomic diversificationexchange rate depreciationfiscal policygdp collapseinflation

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