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Why Nigeria’s rising debt and falling revenues are a challenge for growth

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  • Oyadeyi, Olajide

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In 2021, the World Bank rated Nigeria fifth on its list of ten nations with the biggest debt exposure. This was coming at a time when Nigeria was using 97% of its revenues to service outstanding debt, a cause for concern for the multilateral organization. Nigeria owes the International Development Association (IDA), one of the World Bank’s two lending arms, US$11.7 billion. IDA gives loans to nations at low to zero interest rates based on a country’s creditworthiness or per capita income. These loans are the World Bank’s contribution to helping low and lower-middle-income countries maintain some level of stability and growth at almost zero interest rates. Nigeria is eligible for these concessional loans from IDA based on its per capita income. If the World Bank is raising some concerns about Nigeria’s debt exposure, why then has Nigeria not been cautious about its borrowing? Why has the Nigerian government recently continued to borrow despite spending all its revenue on debt servicing? Why has the finance minister, Dr. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, responded that the country does not have a debt problem but a revenue problem? These and other questions will be addressed in detail in this article.

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  • Oyadeyi, Olajide, 2022. "Why Nigeria’s rising debt and falling revenues are a challenge for growth," MPRA Paper 116765, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:116765
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    1. Nsirimovu, Okwuwada, 2023. "Reflecting on the appetite for borrowing and the volatility of crude prices for rapid post-COVID economic recovery initiatives in Nigeria: Implications for Per capita income using a Dynamic ARDL simul," MPRA Paper 119532, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 20 Dec 2023.

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    Keywords

    Public Debt; Nigeria;

    JEL classification:

    • H61 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Budget; Budget Systems
    • H62 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Deficit; Surplus
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
    • H68 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Forecasts of Budgets, Deficits, and Debt

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