Nigeria - Public and Private Electricity Provision as a Barrier to Manufacturing Competitiveness
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.
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2002-12
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| Subjects: | PUBLIC SERVICES, COMPETITIVENESS, ELECTRIFICATION, ELECTRICITY PRICING, POWER DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION, ENERGY CONSUMPTION, CAPITAL COSTS, WILLINGNESS TO PAY, PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY, PRODUCTION COSTS, PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION ACCOUNTS, BILLS, DEPRECIATION, ELECTRICITY, EXPORTS, MOV, PRIVATE SECTOR, PRODUCTION COST INCREASES, TRANSACTION COSTS, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/12/2082423/nigeria-public-private-electricity-provision-barrier-manufacturing-competitiveness-public-private-electricity-provision-barrier-manufacturing-competitiveness https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9746 |
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