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Nigeria: The dangers of ‘feed bottle federalism’

The slowly-unfolding budgetary crisis affecting Nigeria’s 36 state-level governments poses some risk to the central governmnet’s fiscal health. But, more importantly, it also exemplifies the flaws in an administrative system that discourages fiscal reform and strangles economic growth.

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