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Nigeria’s fiscal woes: Looking beyond the deficit

Despite the steep fall in oil prices and a very weak economic growth, we expect that Nigeria’s budget deficit will remain relatively contained in 2015 and 2016. As we explain in this Watch, however, this is largely the result of a government shutdown that is cutting growth.

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