Nigeria - Public and Private Electricity Provision as a Barrier to Manufacturing Competitiveness

• Tác giả: Gerald Tyler
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 327.66 International relations
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 245496
• Chủ đề: 1. COMPETITIVENESS; 2. ELECTRICITY PRICING; 3. ELECTRIFICATION; 4. POWER DISTRIBUTION; 5. PUBLIC SERVICES

Tóm tắt

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.