Publication: Nigeria - Public and Private Electricity Provision as a Barrier to Manufacturing Competitiveness
Date
2002-12
ISSN
Published
2002-12
Author(s)
Tyler, Gerald
Abstract
High production costs in Nigeria result
in large measure from poor public provision of electricity.
This requires 97 percent of firms to depend on
privately-provided power for 67 percent of the time to
generate electricity costing 2.42 times more than would have
been paid with reliable public provision. This clearly puts
Nigerian firms at a competitive disadvantage compared with
Ghanaian, let alone Asian firms. Nigerian firms are right to
consider infrastructure, particularly the cost of
electricity, as their biggest business problem.
Citation
“Tyler, Gerald. 2002. Nigeria - Public and Private Electricity Provision as a Barrier to Manufacturing Competitiveness. Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 221. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/0ebafb31-09f3-57ad-9a5e-543b7ac5ec6d License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”