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Nigeria’s reform progress: a stock take

Policymakers in Nigeria are taking steps in the right direction with recent market-friendly reforms, from liberalizing petrol prices to moves towards exchange rate unification. But the government hasn’t shed its unorthodox and protectionist tendencies, which may prevent the release of World Bank funding and will almost certainly stifle investment and growth.

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