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INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY: The Case of Nigerian Manufacturing A Framework for Policy Study

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  • Alex Anas
  • Kyu Sik Lee

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This paper reviews the Nigerian situation regarding the private provision of infrastructure services by manufacturers with a focus on electrical power generation. While private provision occurs also in water supply, intraurban freight and worker transport, telecommunications, and waste disposal, the degree of its occurence in electrical power generation, a relatively expensive manufacturing input, has the largest economic implications for the firms and the country. The policy framework developed in this paper, however, is applicable to these other subsectors. Manufacturing firms' private provision responses are identified, analyzed, and grouped into seven regimes, four of which are currently observed to occur, and three are precluded from occuring due to existing regulations. A model of public infrastructure supply that is pertinent for developing countries is proposed and discussed. Policy options which could improve the current situation are also examined and discussed. It is argued that the most promising options are likely to be those which encourage new modes of cooperative private provision among manufacturers, accompanied by deregulation, privatization, contestability, modern pricing, and selective maintenance in the public agencies.

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  • Alex Anas & Kyu Sik Lee, 1989. "INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY: The Case of Nigerian Manufacturing A Framework for Policy Study," Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 1(2), pages 65-76, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revurb:v:1:y:1989:i:2:p:65-76
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-940X.1989.tb00013.x
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    1. Nausheen H. Anwar, 1999. "Inefficiencies in Public Electricity Provision and Impacts on Firms in Karachi’s Manufacturing Sector," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 38(2), pages 167-185.
    2. Kyu Sik Lee & Alex Anas & Gi-Taik Oh, 1999. "Costs of Infrastructure Deficiencies for Manufacturing in Nigerian, Indonesian and Thai Cities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 36(12), pages 2135-2149, November.
    3. Kyu Sik Lee & Alex Anas, 1992. "Costs of Deficient Infrastructure: The Case of Nigerian Manufacturing," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 29(7), pages 1071-1092, October.
    4. Matthew Gandy, 2006. "Planning, Anti-planning and the Infrastructure Crisis Facing Metropolitan Lagos," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 43(2), pages 371-396, February.

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