Thursday, November 11, 2021

Oil - Nigeria's Resource Curse

  


Abundant oil assets that should have brought wealth and stability but instead led to corruption and poverty.

In Nigeria, oil has not been a blessing. Weak institutions of state and poor governance in managing the vast revenues have led the country to fail to realise its full potential in a textbook example of what academics know as the “resource curse”.

Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa, the sixth-largest global exporter and holds the tenth-largest proven oil reserve in the world. 

Full article at

A wealth of sorrow: why Nigeria’s abundant oil reserves are really a curse | Global development | The Guardian

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