PDF II supported reports and papers or those produced by stakeholders can be found in this section.Each title is followed by a brief excerpt of several words; you can click on the button to read a longer excerpt and download a copy of the report or paper.
Innovation Hubs Report- Abridged Version
The information communication technology (ICT) sector in Nigeria has experienced rapid growth over the past 15 years, yet the development in leveraging ICT has been uneven across different regions in the country. Technology is an integral part of a thriving innovation ecosystem, serving both as an input (e.g., creating access to information and resources) [..]Read more...
Short report on YouWin long-term follow-up
This short note reports results from a survey taken in 2016 of individuals who applied in 2011 to
the first round of the YouWiN! business plan competition. These individuals had been previously
interviewed in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and the data used to estimate the impact of winning the
competition over this time horizon. The [..]Read more...
YouWiN Impact Assessment Report
The modal firm size in most developing countries is one worker, consisting of only the owner of
the firm. Among the firms that do hire additional workers, most hire fewer than 10. Hsieh and
Olken (2014, p.93) report that in India and Indonesia “the fraction of firms with less than 10
workers is almost [..]Read more...
Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) Single Window
Single Window is a trade facilitation tool which when deployed inevitably results in significant improvement in the time and cost of carrying out cross- border trade. As such, when implemented in developed countries, which suffer from large number of non-tariff barriers, the benefits are accrued quickly.
In Nigeria, the employment of ICT solutions operated [..]Read more...
Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) Concessions and Joint Ventures Agreements
In the global port community, concessioning is seen as a means of reducing public infrastructural
deficit, engendered by the disproportionate growth in population and the available resources for
national development. Since government cannot do it alone, private investors have to become
involved as public private partnerships, (PPP). Public and private infrastructural developments have
become a [..]Read more...
